{"id":439,"date":"2007-01-10T07:54:32","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T14:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/main\/2007\/01\/hi-id-like-to-talk-to-my-garbage-pickup-company-for-a-minute-please\/"},"modified":"2013-02-23T05:41:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T05:41:00","slug":"hi-id-like-to-talk-to-my-garbage-pickup-company-for-a-minute-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2007\/01\/10\/hi-id-like-to-talk-to-my-garbage-pickup-company-for-a-minute-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi, I’d like to talk to my garbage pickup company for a minute, please?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey, BFI? Yeah, I know you’re all about the alliedwaste.com<\/a> name now, but I really need to talk to you, and there’s just no way I can do that right now.<\/p>\n

So, here we go….
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\nDo you still exist? Because I haven’t seen you at all this year. You disappeared at the end of last year [because of the snow, I guess], and haven’t been around to pick up anyone’s trash.<\/p>\n

You said you’d be running a normal schedule this week, which led me to haul my can down to the curb yesterday.<\/p>\n

My can is still at the curb. Full of trash. And, since you close at 4:30 for customer service calls, I wasn’t able to get ahold of you.<\/p>\n

Also, your voicemailbox was full.<\/p>\n

Also, there seem to be a lot of other people on my street who haven’t had trash service.<\/p>\n

Also, also, also<\/i>: all I can get is a fucking busy signal<\/i> when I try to call you now.<\/p>\n

If I were you, I’d be really, seriously [perhaps even with a religious conviction] be looking into giving us poor, un-service-having customers a partial refund. Like, say, a month’s worth off our next bill. Because that’s just about how long we’ve been without service — why pay for what you don’t get, right?<\/p>\n

Okay, I’ll be realistic. Nobody from my trash disposal service is going to see this. Ever.<\/p>\n

Back to listening to the busy signal, I guess….<\/p>\n

Edit: Oops. Broken link fixed.<\/p>\n

Also, after twenty minutes on hold, I got someone that sounded like a very happy morning person who was glad to put a message through to the trucks that they’d totally forgotten about me [and possibly my street] yesterday, and they would re-attempt pickup this morning.<\/p>\n

Since they’re going to re-attempt, I cannot be credited for this week. I can, however, be credited for last week. So I will be.<\/p>\n

Yay. Ish.<\/p>\n

I still had to hang out in no-contact-hell for way-too-long. They need to do something about that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey, BFI? Yeah, I know you’re all about the alliedwaste.com name now, but I really need to talk to you, and there’s just no way I can do that right now. So, here we go….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bib"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3bMfN-75","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}