What the f**k has happened to this country?

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sturat

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WA state
seems like nobody wants to work, no sense of urgency for ANYTHING, nobody wants to sell anything they have advertised... seriously what the hell. Has everyone lost whatever portion of their brain that was functional? I call dealers about things on the showroom and I get "uh, I don't know. I can look into it. I think so? Maybe. Not sure."

i went to several dealerships here in Washington to look for trucks, walked in and said I'm ready to buy something right now with cash. They look at me like I'm frankenstein. I almost miss the vultures.

I message people on marketplace and Craigslist, they read my messages and never respond. I say I have cash and want to buy right now... crickets.

Talking to realtors about houses, leaving several messages and getting no response for weeks on end. I say I am
approved for more than the asking price, nothing.

Nobody gives a poop about anything anymore. Zero effort living has run rampant.

I went to buy a new phone recently and nobody wants to help get poop done. Holding my debit card in my hand saying im ready to buy right now, can somebody help me please? I might as well have a DO NOT INTERACT sign on my face.

Am I just turning into a cranky ass old man? 32 years old and I feel like Im talking to a brick licoricein wall everywhere I go. At least the brick wall will reverberate what I say back to me, but Jesus Christ.

I called 4 ford dealerships wanting an alignment for a truck I bought used, all 4 told me they can fit me in mid April. No service people there to work And they all run banker hours. No weekend work, closed by 5 during the week.

poop like this makes me hate this country and everyone in it. Nobody wants to do anything and quite frankly I'm surprised most people have jobs. theyre all incapable of basic math, human interaction, and just seem like they are tuned out for eternity.

I can see why Ted K did what he did. He was right. So were all the Islamic terrorists who want to see America burn. We are a useless group of people with nothing between the ears. maybe it's about time I build a cabin in the woods and just escape from reality. Im doing everything I'm supposed to be doing to be successful, and I'm making it happen, but I just can't see why literally every other person I interact with is just like a Robot.

Nothing makes sense to me anymore.
 
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sturat

Location
WA state
MADMAT said:
I see and feel this too.
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It's just at what point did things just... quit? I feel like I'm the only person within a thousand miles who cares about quality of work, getting things done in a timely manner, or even just small talk with randoms. I feel like basic social interaction is a thing of the past. Maybe I'm losing my sanity. I don't know. I haven't been able to connect with people where I'm at and it's just the most off putting feeling ever.

when I walked into the first dealership, one of the biggest in the state, and said Im buying something TODAY, I had 4 salesmen look at each other and then slowly turn their chairs away from me. I said oh you guys get paid by the hour or something or am I speaking Chinese? I then said in a very offensive Chinese accent "ESSCUUU ME MISTA CAHH DEALA, I WANT TO GIVE YOU LOTS OF BIG MONIES FOR TRUCK, DO ANY OF YOU GIVE A FLYING F***?"

i walked out after asking the closest one to me "so how bout it Gilbert grape? You wanna make that commission today?" and he just put his head down. What the actual licorice. Here's someone offering you literal free money and you choose to not do anything. Maybe I've gone off the deep end.
 
kevbo

kevbo

Location
dfw
I know one guy that went to a dealer and left empty handed since everything was overpriced. He did better ordering a truck from the ford website, just has to wait for it. Times are unusually good right now with inflation spiking to 40 year highs. The federal reserve overdid their covid relief, we are now seeing the short term aftermath. Have patience, fortunes will reverse soon as prices and interest rates rise.
 
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sturat

Location
WA state
kevbo said:
I know one guy that went to a dealer and left empty handed since everything was overpriced. He did better ordering a truck from the ford website, just has to wait for it. Times are unusually good right now with inflation spiking to 40 year highs. The federal reserve overdid their covid relief, we are now seeing the short term aftermath. Have patience, fortunes will reverse soon as prices and interest rates rise.
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No, trucks are on the lot. They are for sale. No salesmen wanted to get off their lazy butts and ring me up. I went back and flexed my new to me powerstroke on the lot and told the sales manager you could have had my money but you chose to be a tool. he said "I'm sorry" and I assured him he absolutely is.
 
kevbo

kevbo

Location
dfw
You may not have fit the profile of the average new car buyer. Im sure I dont either and they would be correct since I dont buy new vehicles.
 
WFO Speedracer

WFO Speedracer

A lifetime ban is like a lifetime warranty !
Location
Alabama
Yep I showed up yesterday to buy a Honda ATV, price had already been agreed upon, I get there the guys says I can't let it go for that, I looked it up on the internet and they are bringing way more than that.
This is when we got into a conversation about the prices listed and the prices things actually sell for, it doesn't matter what it's listed for, and you have no idea what it actually sold for unless you bought it, needless to say I left with an empty trailer. One more thing people with no integrity suck.

I have been a Verizon customer for as long as Verizon has been around, my bill had four phones on it and was usually around $250 a month, in other words a damn car payment, all the kids have jobs and are out of the house so I told them it was time to get their own phone plans. So I get everyone off my bill and try to negotiate with Verizon, they said the best they can do is $75 a month and oh by the way you have to buy a new phone, that rocked on for a few months and my old phone died, I checked around now I have Consumer Cellular , a new phone and it works great $35 a month and Verizon just lost a really good customer.

I moved back to the small town I was raised in since I inherited the family estate here, everything about this place is ass backwards, there is no money here, people here either do not have money or refuse to spend it, customer service here is basically non-existent, what passes for customer service here would not be tolerated anywhere else, the roads I drive on here look like something out of a third world country, the town won't even put up traffic lights on the Bypass, traffic is a freaking mess.

We used to have stuff here when I grew up, a drive in, a skating rink , a public pool, a bowling alley, all of that is gone, nothing came in to replace it, normal restaurants that are fine everywhere else in the world suck here , for example I waited 10 minutes at Arbys last night because they were waiting on the roast beef to finish cooking, How does Arbys run out of roast beef ?

Taco bell ran out of ground beef, again how does that happen, every grocery store in the area sells ground beef , go buy some problem solved.

I waited about twenty minutes the other day at Burger King for a Whopper meal, really, how do you screw something like that up , I can't wait to move back to Lake Martin, I am horrified by thing that go on here , I built my business and my reputation on customer service , I stay busy and I advertise nowhere, my entire business was built on word of mouth advertising which only works if you do great work at reasonable prices and it appalls me that people here put up with this.
 
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E350

E350

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Sacramento Delta
It is my observation that cars and other high cost items are not the seller's purpose for the sale.

Financing is the purpose for the sale.

If you want to pay cash, you actually are not really a "buyer" of what they are really selling.

So, you shouldn't expect to be served.

Debt is Slavery (or what once was referred to as indentured servitude).

You sir, apparently don't want to be a slave.

So, don't expect to fit in.
 
bird

bird

walking on water
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Location
La Crosse, WI on the BIG River
Let's see you're in FLORIDA. I don't know anyone who's ever moved to there to WORK hard.... Then throw in all of the unemployement, free government money, and people with kids getting $300/month per kid for "child care"....even though nobody went back to work. Everyone thinks their rich right now, gotta wait it out a year or two.

I feel what you're saying though. I call people out on the daily for being stupid. It works the next time you interact with them. When I walk into a room, and everyone is on their "smart phone" I call them out. Smart phones are a convenience, they're not a replacement for real tools(desktop Workstations, Servers, Gaming PCs, etc). Try telling kids that today.

and yes you're getting old.
 
Baja 252

Baja 252

Location
LOTO
I'm in the midwest and same thing here, no customer service. I ordered a new front door in Nov and it's still not in. I get it, supply issues and all, but at least return my call when all I want is an update on the ETA.
 
S

sturat

Location
WA state
bird said:
Let's see you're in FLORIDA. I don't know anyone who's ever moved to there to WORK hard.... Then throw in all of the unemployement, free government money, and people with kids getting $300/month per kid for "child care"....even though nobody went back to work. Everyone thinks their rich right now, gotta wait it out a year or two.

I feel what you're saying though. I call people out on the daily for being stupid. It works the next time you interact with them. When I walk into a room, and everyone is on their "smart phone" I call them out. Smart phones are a convenience, they're not a replacement for real tools(desktop Workstations, Servers, Gaming PCs, etc). Try telling kids that today.

and yes you're getting old.
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I live an hour south of Seattle.
 
fastgtfairlane

fastgtfairlane

Location
Charlotte, NC
What do you expect when you live in a historically liberal run dump of a city? Seattle defunded their police by millions if I'm not mistaken and had a huge "autonomous" zone in Seattle. I've been to Seattle for a short time more like passing through. This was back in 14ish I believe. It was kinda trashy then.
 
kevbo

kevbo

Location
dfw
Boeing sent the good jobs abroad, what did you expect? The only place that the US has for undesirables is prison. That system works great in the south but the northwest needs to get in touch with reality. What is Mississippi? Its the most incarcerated place per capita in the entire world!
 
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