Is it just me or has the basic services of companies just gone absolutely down hill? package delivery constantly delayed/late/lost/misrouted? Airlines can’t keep schedule to save their life. 6am Flight cancelled due to mechanical, got rerouted to wrong side of US to then be delayed for another mechanical which making me miss the last flight. What was supposed to be a 12:30 landing in Tucson has turned to “we get you there when we get you there, stfu, no, there’s no compensation….” USPS delivers a package to the hotel, 4 days later then estimate, same package from same vendor ordered a day later, gets delivered to a PO BOX, no one has an idea what P.O. Box they’re talking about. Had to leave the customer, package gets delivered after our shipping managers crawls up USPS ass (we ship millions of dollars in parts every year) about straightening it out. Well too late now assholes. UPS red overnight delivery? I don’t even tell customers we can overnight stuff. It’s pointless, I’m at about 20% success rate getting parts overnighted. The lies they put on the tracking should be written into a book. “Customer closed….” To a 24 hour run largest pork producer in US plant. lol. in the last 48 hours I’ve got to experience non stop bullshit from USPS, American Airlines, UPS, u-haul etc. I feel like it’s getting worse, the gears of what runs this society have been left dry, bearing are seizing and the whole shebang is about to crawl to a grind. /End rant.
That’s the thing man, just cuz it’s worse somewhere else we should shrug our shoulders and accept worse? we know they’re capable of better, we have all experienced smooth running infrastructure, shit happened but it was rare. Lately stuff going smooth is a rarety and a surprise vs the expectation.
AA is 3rd best, by a long way, in flying. UPS has sucked for quite a while. Dont use Fedex ground. A friend owned a territory around ATL. The employee base is not good. People in general, for the last several generations, have a dont give an Eff attitude. Way back in day, 40's-70's you would be on the street most places the way most service related people act and perform. Now....its put up with as if you canned all of them that dont work and just dont given eff...you wouldnt have a single employee. We need a good world war to straighten these generations out. Or hit the reset button and go tot eh next gen. Either way...win win.
My HOA fees are due on the 10th of the month, they only take checks by US mail to their PO box and I always mail it the third week of the preceding month. I have been charged 4 late fees in the last year, so minimum 18 days to go Indiana to Nevada. My family had relatives that fought in the civil war for the south and we have over 70 letters from the front in Georgia to Missouri, they would post a letter and then get a response within 10 days. This is 1864, soldiers had little food and no shoes and mail had to go through several Northern territories yet the mail service is twice as long as today, why?
LOL I was gonna say... anywhere in Europe. Nothing gets done over there. People can't be bothered to be dragged away from their cigs and espressos.
Its gonna get worse... as people become more and more cyborg with their devices... nothing can compete with that crack addiction. I don't hire anyone for anything if I can help it. I just suck it up and learn how to do it myself. I stuck my F-150 in my driveway last week. A crackhead in a 1984 F250 tow rig showed up to yank me out. Took him 90 seconds and charged me $250. That will NEVER happen to me again, LOL. I will friggin dig with a shovel for a week to avoid that from happening.
I was on a flight out of PHX on AA last week. When I boarded and walked past 1st class, I was shocked to see the condition of the seats. I have *never* seen anything like that, anywhere in the world, including Russia.
Ever seen the movie “Until the End of the World”? The little sleep/dream devices are almost like a premonition of smat phones and the addiction that comes along with them.
The USPS is heavily understaffed, and demanding too much of the current staff. My oldest worked for USPS for about three weeks, walking 15 miles a day in the cold and the snow. His days were generally 12 to hours. Paid well, though. He was let go after coming down with the flu and missing two days.