I've been told to mind my ?$%&-ing language by a ?$%&-ing machine!
A bit dischuffed at the non performance
of my Mastercard in trying to pay a legitimate bill of a legitimate
company I protested to the bank. They had changed me from Visa to
Mastercard. "It's better" they said. Like the gullible fool
I am, I signed.
I wanted to pay the bill. I wanted the
service the company was offering. It was a Saturday, so no hope in
getting a real reply till Monday, but I thought I'd see what the
automated system would do.
I had to type in my question to a fake
person called "Paolo", who turned out to be as stupid as Microsoft's "Clippy" (but
much more easily offended).
When Paolo did not understand my
question (and his response was clearly from a non human, i.e. an
automatic program) I asked him, in Italian, how stupid he was. He
replied that I needed to reply to him more politely:
A ?$%&ing machine is telling me how
to behave when I talk to it! I lost my rag then. I'd just tried four
times to get into the Mastercard help system, but again a ?$%&ing
machine could not understand my key presses for my card number (three
times) or finally my date of birth (once). Well sod me, the machines
?$%&-up then tell me to behave myself!
The idiot programmer, or, more likely
the programmer's idiot boss, made Paolo tell me off when it sees bad
words (like "stupid"). Had "Paolo" simply said:
"Sorry I don't understand, please call a real person on Monday"
I'd have been satisfied.
And WTF, Paolo doesn't even shave before
coming to work! Look under his nose and on his chin:
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