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Friendly Phantom

@friendlyphantom

She/Her / Straight-Ally / Canadian / Fan of Jacksepticeye, Markiplier, and Thomas Sanders

My Discord account has been hacked. I sent an email to the Discord team asking for help but they haven't responded yet. If you get a message asking to download something, just ignore it.

Feb 24, 2022 Edit: I finally got my old account back! I’m still keeping my newer one just in case something like this happens again.

hate to say it but the key to having things solved by big company customer service is you just gotta stretch the truth with them. or straight up lie. actually. was on the phone for 3 hours because they sent something to the wrong address and spoke to 10 different departments trying to figure out if anyone could go fucking get it and they're like "uhhh but can you go get it" bitch I'm 8 hours away by car, I don't live in the house where you sent it.

took a moment to think, called back and was just like. Hi. My package was stolen off the porch!!! Saw the cunt steal it myself!! Anyway can you please send new things to this other address for free since that's your policy for stolen goods thank you~☆ ! and it was immediately solved.

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THIS is how it's done!!!

I had to cancel our trash service because they sucked plus we found a company that was like...1/3 of the price. When I called I didn’t tell them that, though--I said we were “going to have to move back in with my folks for awhile due to some financial stuff.” They didn’t ask a single question and we were cancelled within 5 minutes.

It’s okay. Lie. As someone who worked in a call center, it’s SO MUCH EASIER if you just give us one of the pre-approved reasons for wanting to do something. 

I’m sure people know this but just in case they don’t DO NOT DO THIS if you’re on the phone for anything insurance or finance related. This trick is to avoid stupid capitalist pressure to continue to pay for something you don’t want/need, whereas if you lie about why you need to take money out of your retirement account early or why the bank doesn’t need to endorse this insurance check actually, you will at best be on the phone far longer than you need to be while the exhausted call center employee deals with your bullshit, and at worst get into legal trouble. Though what will most likely happen, is the company will eventually catch you in your lie, because these are processes that require documentation, and if you failed to provide the correct documentation, you don’t get what you’re looking for.

TLDR: if they don’t require proof then by all means lie, but there are things (like credit cards, insurance policies, retirement accounts, etc) that require documentation, DO NOT lie about those. I know that some of those systems are bullshit too, but the time and place to do something about that is not while you’re trying to get funds to have your roof repaired.

kink at pride is easy af to explain to kids, idk what yall are talking about. "mommy, why is that mostly-naked man wearing leather?" because lots of gay men think it looks nice. "why is that guy on a leash with a mask?" hes playing pretend. "why does she have a whip?" she thinks its fun. you know how you like to play with water guns? its like that but only for grown-ups, and she wont play with anyone who doesnt want to play with her so we're all totally safe

if your 6yo's next question is "is that a sex thing?", thats fucking wild and a completely different problem. for you. not really an "Us Problem" collectively for all pride-goers, tbh. something's going on there thats hard to call the dominatrix's fault

homophobes think that being gay is already a weird sex thing thats hard to explain to kids. did yall forget that already? why are you trying to play respectability politics for people who will never respect you?

The fact that members of the in-universe research team are questioning Welcome Home's existence, that not even people who grew up in the era remember it. How they're having dreams of Wally telling them to pick up the phone and hallucinating phones ringing. The fucking ichor or whatever the hell that grows on the pieces of found advertising and merch that overtook the exhibition. Spirals everywhere. The scratch scratch scratch at the back of your head that makes you keep digging into it. The fact that Wally sees through representations of himself and the point of the WHRP is to spread Welcome Home and thus Wally's image as far as possible across the internet and he wants us to ANSWER HIM and LET HIM IN. It's giving big eldritch horror and I am so fucking here for it.