If some company out there is trying to figure out how to inform me of products they have for sale that i might actually be interested in buying, it’s easy. Put the details in your website and maybe i’ll find you when i go looking for that kind of product.

But the entire advertising industry can just STFU!

It’s not the employees fault so it isn’t aimed at them. The business that employs them has shifted workloads to put more work on them so it can save the cost of hiring another one to do the job. That part is NOT MY PROBLEM and I will not be the expected solution by putting up with it. If you humbly never complain and go along with it, the next part will be something else you have to do in order to do business with them.

Tell me, do you enjoy making two trips to the cashier to get gas? One to pay for the gas before you get it and another to get the change after you’ve gotten it? I always pay for my gas. Why should I be made to suffer for the few and be treated like I’m some sort of criminal not to be trusted because I want their product? Sound familiar to you in any way?

I will not put up with a business that is there to make my life difficult so it can pay its workers less to do more. If that’s being a pain when it comes to expecting reasonable service by their paying customers where the customer is expected unasked to tote the burden of this business decision, then you betcha.

I don’t really care how good the content is, I won’t put up with the commercial as the price to view. That is my choice and nothing the corporations can do will change that. I also vote with my wallet, choosing to withhold and not buy what I don’t like or the corporations that sponsor methods I dislike, such as the major labels that employ the RIAA, MPAA, and the like. I am an empowered consumer. I have something I can do about it. I excerise that power every time I am in a store. The corporations can not force me to change as it is my choice and not theirs. I chose where, when, and for what I will buy an item. They can not pull that money from my wallet without my ok. If the entire buying public did this, it would not take long for all these schemes on how to rip the public off to dry up. As a result you would get decent products at decent prices or no corporation to worry about over the long haul. Economic drivers would force these legal entities to straighten up and do right or suffer the wrath of the customer upon which their well being depends on.

Wise up customers, you not they have the choice.

I also refuse to go through voice menus on phones. I refuse to be put on hold and ignored so some business can make a killing at the employees and your expense. They don’t mind wasting your time, ever notice how the reverse is not true? When I get one of those hangups, I’ll hang up, call back and tell them I didn’t call to talk to a computer. I want a real live person to deal with or I can find a competitor that will. Call that eccentric if you will but amazingly, when you get one of those services that say the call is monitored for customer satisfaction, you would be surprised how you can use that to your advantage.