I was accustomed to google maps opening the phone and showing a number when I clicked on call. Yesterday it skipped that step and went straight to calling.
How are you still alive?
It went to voicemail.
I tried to make a reservation once, for a date with my wife.
The whole conversation was a mess of them being too damn busy, when we got there on the agreed date they had nothing in their agenda.
Never again. I’ll get some movie tickets.
You tried to make a diner reservation… once in your life? And then gave up and never went to a restaurant again?
I mean, that’s fine, home food is best food.
But if you ever try to make a reservation again, try and call them before rush hour starts. I’m sure they’ll appreciate that a lot, and won’t “forget” to actually book you in.
They opened at 4pm, i tried calling before that but no one picked up.
It was fairly new at the time so it was always busy.
“Guys how do we get people under 40 to stop making reservations without saying that out loud.”
Or: “how do we discriminate who we give reservations to without any official policy.”
I am 40, and I still hate that. But I’m also really far from teenager shyness or “not knowing better”, so I would just wait until they pick up and say how annoyed I am and how they can go f themselves with that practice. If several people would do that every day, they would reconsider how they take bookings.
Pretty likely whoever’s taking reservations isn’t going to have any say in what’s on the website.
They can still report feedback to their superior.
They’ll get right on the advocacy after hanging up when they hear “fuck you“ 😉
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As someone who is autistic, has an ample dose of ADHD, and the hearing of a brick, talking on the phone is a literal, hellish nightmare. I can barely figure out social interaction when I can see your face, I can’t pay attention to shit unless it’s actively grabbing my focus, and on the best of days the phone is about as intelligible as the adults from Peanuts.
Fuck. Phone. Calls.
It’s easy to take our experience of the world or how we feel about something and try to forcefully apply it to everyone else. This almost never works, and we just end up looking like a dumbass because people are messy and rarely fit in the same mold as us. Perhaps you feel that avoiding talking on the phone is ridiculous, but that is decidedly not universally true. Next time, maybe try and think through how other people might have a different experience and reason than you before passing such judgments.
Half the time the company requiring a phone call has absolutely shit quality. Idk wtf they do but it’s like the person on the other end is trying to yell into the phone atop a mountain from 500ft away
