I rise very, very early. This morning YouTube (which I rely on heavily for certain content) would NOT work. And it would not tell me why.
This you really need at 5 am. I tried in vain to fix the problem, but there was no way of finding out what the problem was. This ate up close to an hour. It turned out I must have still been paying with Lee’s old inactive credit card. Jeez fellas, if you had told me that at the beginning, it would have saved a great deal of time and anguish. I don’t think Google has too many real, live human beings working there. You get asked meaningless questions that do not pertain to the problem you are trying to solve and there is no way of hooking up to a real, live person who would grasp the situation in a minute. It was a very frustrating hour or so.
After that I did get a chance to work on my tax stuff, but still felt like I was running behind all day.
We are supposed to get another snowstorm this weekend. And the frigid temperatures, as well. Hot diggity.
If I sound a little grumpy and short-tempered right now, it’s because I am a little grumpy and short tempered right now.
So I will take my grumpy little self and start my supper and watch some TV. That should help.
Please stay safe and warm.
God bless everybody.
Patty
Is there anything more frustrating than trying to communicate with a computer? Yes, there is – trying to communicate with someone in the third world who can barely speak English and has an accent that really throws you off your game.
Yes, been there, too.
When working internationally, I actually found the British to be the most difficult to communicate with. There were some inscrutable British accents, and phrases that might as well have been in another language. One guy, most likely a Scot, was completely undecipherable.
For some reason I don’t have a problem with a Scots accent. Lee could not understand a word when we watched some of the British shows and people had Scots accents.
I was once on a conference call to Great Britain, and there were several IT people there from various locations in the UK. There was one fellow I could not understand, even in the slightest. I’m pretty sure he was a Scot, but even if I had asked him, I wouldn’t have been able to understand his answer. Think Constable Chumley, on a particularly bad day. 🙂
Don’t feel bad, the English can’t understand the Scots either.
I can’t and I am 1/4 Scots ancestry.
I read a book where a Scottish detective was speaking at a seminar for English detectives in London. About halfway through his talk he realized (by the way they were smiling and nodding vaguely) that they hadn’t understood a word he had said. It was hilarious.
English, as spoken in the UK has had a long time to invent colloquialisms and they seem to be regional, with the regions being fairly small, by western hemisphere standards. When the Americas became populated by English speakers, it was sort of a reset button as far as colloquialisms were concerned. We have our regional dialects, but over a wider geographic area.
When I was in my teens, and moved from Minnesota to Colorado, I had to become accustomed to some new words and expressions. For years I resisted, but now I consider the Coloradan speech of the ‘70s my lingual home. Strangely, Arizona doesn’t seem to have much of an accent. There’s some western drawl, here and there, but I think that it’s more of a crossroads that has numerous influences, none of which stand out.
Those tech companies can be very frustrating to deal with.
They sure can.