NotAlwaysRight Stories

[Ironclad Alibi]

Does anyone know any way to recover from this? I'm using Firefox on Ubuntu.

After being annoyed by the pop-ups, I unblocked the site for Ad-Bloc-Plus. Upon seeing the animated ads they then foisted upon me, I viewed their web page in a window that was narrowed sideways enough to block the ads from my view.

[Mental_Mouse]

OK, today NotAlwaysRight is itself the problem!

1. It started throwing up intrusive popups to the effect of "You've got ads blocked, this is post #1 you have viewed without ads". No explicit threat of a limit, but I'd say that's implied. They offered to let me buy a "Pass" from Google to view it ad-free.
2. After trying for a while to block the popups with NoScript and/or AdBlockPlus (I've gotta admit uOrigin would probably have been better at this), I gave up on that, and decided to actually buy the pass.
3. Having done so (with some difficulty, as the signup page itself involved some scripts that NoScript didn't like), I found that indeed the popups are gone. Unfortunately, so is the comment section -- not even the comment-count widget is visible! This remains so even with both NS and ABP disabled.

Of course, the comments for NAR are most of the fun. As far as I'm concerned, this is a major-league fuckup, and has ensured that it will be a cold day in hell before I pay another dollar to Google's "revenue enforcement" systems.

Does anyone know any way to recover from this? I'm using Firefox on Ubuntu.

ETA: Looking at my Google account, it offers no way to delete the pass. Or stop automatic payments, or even remove my card from their files. The only thing I can do is delete my Google account entirely.

[Jay 2K Winger]

And that, right there, is why you should treat every customer with courtesy and respect so long as they're not being full-blown creepy or abusive. Never Assume!

With this in mind... MOAR Mystery Shopper pwnage!

[Mr Hero]

https://notalwaysright.com/thinking-...ox-car/102293/

Almost sounds like one of Irv's customers

[TheSHAD0W]

I can't blame Customs for their reaction.

LOL. Aspartame is ungodly sweet. You know how a packet of aspertame is a lot smaller than the equivalent sugar packet? That's because aspartame is *so* sweet they have to add a buffer to it - and the buffer they add is sugar!

[greek_jester]

OP: "How do you think?"

And that, right there, is why you should treat every customer with courtesy and respect so long as they're not being full-blown creepy or abusive. Never Assume!

[Jay 2K Winger]

OP: "By the way, he's not the mystery shopper."
Worker: "How do you know?"
OP: "How do you think?"

[catcul]

Customs: Do you have anything to declare?
Passenger: Just this huge bag of white powder.
Customs:

I can't blame Customs for their reaction.

[Jay 2K Winger]

I agree with this rationale for calling Thanksgiving-you-have-to-work "Brown Thursday."
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ETA:

PWNZER by this waitress against her boss!

[Jay 2K Winger]

Sucktomer, begone! THE POWER OF ROCK COMPELS YOU!

[catcul]

A sucky customer calls the technical support for a range extender. He claims to be a network technician for 16 years despite not knowing how to pull up a list of available networks or not knowing what Ethernet is.

I wouldn't recommend Mr. Dunning–Kruger here for any computer services.

The Wireless Age Completely Passed Them By

[Jay 2K Winger]

Stay-at-Home Dad brings 2yo daughter to cafe owned by Wife.
Daddy asks Sucky Employee if he can talk to Wife.
SE claims Wife ain't the boss.
SE carries on being rude and abrasive.
Brother-in-Law (supervisor) is brought out.
BIL tells Daddy that Wife stepped out for a bit.
BIL tells SE that Wife IS the boss.
SE insists otherwise.
Daddy shows SE his driver's license.
SE is suddenly all apologies.
SE had been on her final warning.
Daddy tells SE she's fired.
SE says he can't fire her, he's not the boss.
Wife comes in behind SE and says she IS the boss, and SE IS fired.

PWNZER.

[greek_jester]

https://notalwaysright.com/displayin...-idiocy/94236/

I just don't even know where to start with this one!

[Jay 2K Winger]

Now here's a way to stymie those "we have an incredible offer"-type of call center calls.

Ask them who they're calling for.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Maybe this bigoted student will learn something now... Brilliant response by the teacher!