Oh no, it’s worse than that. I’ve explained several times to several people the terrible business practices that nestle use.
I’ve named off some of the bigger products they make.
90% of people I’ve explained this to gave zero shits. The other 10% feigned interest but didn’t change their behavior.
So, the people I’ve explained it to can’t feign ignorance. It’s apathy.
The same…boat??? BOAT???
Aw, I like the Canadian flag. I’m not Canadian, but I like Canada. Bunch of good people up there.
What I’m trying to say is…PLEASE LET ME IN!!! GET ME OUTTA THIS HELL HOLE AMERICA!!! I’m even in Cleveland! It wouldn’t even be that far away! Just I’ll borrow a jetski in the summer, and I’ll be over in like…20 minutes. I don’t know how long it takes to cross Lake Erie. I assume it’s short.
Is it sad that I know your rough age, just based on the fact that you went to THIS country which had an unwarrented war return kids with missing limbs, or they returned in a box…as opposed to if you had said that you went to THIS OTHER country which had an unwarrented war return kids with missing limbs, or they returned in a box.
I know you’re 35-45, and not 70-80. The description is the same, but the boomers had a different country. Vietnam.
I just find it sad that the idea of our country sending an entire generation of kids off to die in a pointless war not only happened…it’s happened for multiple generations! The ONLY difference is that Iraq wasn’t mandated with a draft.
No, you’re right to feel that way.
Agree.
While most Americans aren’t terrible people,
Hard disagree.
enough of us are that we allowed fascism to take over and we will have to carry that shame with us for the rest of our lives. It Happened Here.
Well…yeah. That’s a symptom of the problem which is why I had to hard disagree with you.
They just said “for this particular issue, the hard drive is not working, and so there’s nothing we can do about that”.
I agree the hard drive wasn’t working. So I asked them to point me to the claus in the warrenty that dismissed them if the hard drive wasn’t working within the warrenty period. They just kept transfering me around.
It’s decades later, and I’m still of the belief that I was right. It’s also the reason I hold no grudge towards best buy.
Seagate defined their warrenty as 90 days, barring user defects (so like if I had spilled a drink on it, or did something on my end that would break it). Since nothing about the defect had anything to do with me, I’d say I fall into their warrenty.
If I had opened the box sooner, and gotten it back to best buy with the reciept, within 14 days, I’d expect them to have taken it back. I opened it a month or so in, so that part is on me. Best buy defined their terms before I purchased. I was outside those terms. Sucked for me, but you can’t fault best buy for that.
I was just mad that seagate said “this is our warrenty, these are our terms”, and then didn’t honor it on a defective drive. At that point I DO fault the company that doesn’t honor their own word.
Yeah, but I’m not in your economy. Average wage around here is lkke $10/hr.
My rent is $500 less than whatever metric you’re using, but our local ecconomy is also lowers than yours.
Average wage here is 10/hr for a factory job. I’ve heard some places like Seattle make $20/hr just working at starbucks.
And keep in mind my rent is basically 1 room.
I hadn’t opened the package for about a month. Best buy had a 14 day return period, which is why I don’t blame them. They offered their terms, I was outside of their return period, even if the package was unopened.
The seagate warrenty was 90 days. Which I was within.
Lakewood, a suburb of Cleveland. It’s overpriced as hell.
Just a few weeks ago I made comments that I wouldn’t be interested in buying seagate’s latest 34 terabyte hard drive, or whatever it was.
My logic was that in 2008 when I bought a brand new seagate hard drive, and it was dead before I plugged it in, they refused to honor their warrenty.
Which to me, is them being an untruthful company. THEY wrote the terms of the warrenty. I fell within them. They refused to honor their warrenty.
Alright. Fine, you’re on the blacklist. And I haven’t bought a seagate product since.
And peoples response on lemmy to those comments was “it was 15+ years ago, they make better products now”
Which misses the point entirely. I’m not boycotting them to reduce risk of getting another junk product. I’m boycotting them because they don’t stand behind their word.
I feel we as people need to stand up, and police the businesses. Ok, so McDonalds is supporting trump. Mcdonalds is supporting russia. Mcdonalds is doing all this shady shit? Well then STOP BUYING BIG MACS, ASSHOLE! If we, collectively as a society held dishonest businesses to the flame for shady practices, then these shady businesses would stop being shady.
It’s a simple formula.
(Shady thing) - (lost sales from protests) + (completed purchases) = total dollars.
Now, if the lost sales from protests swallows the completed purchases, then that means that shady thing cost them money. When that happens, they will stop doing the thing that loses them money.
But if the shady thing boosts their sales more than the protests cost the sales, it becomes just a cost of doing business.
It seems like such a simple concept too. Don’t buy from shitty companies, but yet Nestle is out here just thriving.
Depends where and how you live. My rent is $800 a month, but some mortgages are thousands of dollars.
I’d love to know your version of “just barely” is you have two adults working full time in a 2 person household.
Maybe your mortgage is far higher then I’m imagining.
I live in an apartment, but it’s overpriced, and it’s just me. This world is designed to be a 2 person household.
So I have to imagine you’re living beyond your means. I’m living beyond my means too, but I also don’t have a decent wage either. So living at all is living beyond my means.
You should add up your whole house income, divide that number by 4, and THAT number should be what your mortgage shouldn’t be higher than.
I suspect your mortgage is probably much higher than that number.
Either that or we have different definitions of “just getting by”.
Hey Gen Z, first time being gaslit by boomers? Heh, yyeeeaaaahhhhhhh…they do that. Now imagine having them as your parent, and you’re 5, and you have to just live with their bullshit.
~Sincerely, Gen X and the older millenials.
I don’t understand the logic. Verizon buys tumblr, knowing it has porn, knowing porn is what makes it popular.
Kills porn.
Kills the valuation of the brand
Sells for far less than they bought it for.
Explain please.
Imagine elmo singing
face down, ass up, thats the way elmo likes to fuck!!!
Orrrrrrrr, we take this as a challenge! A challenge to get as many stupid names into the garden as we can.
Then, when they show it off, it’s names like Erma Dummass.
Trump? Doing illegal things??? Shocked! I am shocked! Yes, that’s the word. No other word describes my feelings on this! Shocked I say!!!
…not that shocked actually.