Jehu
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MA | yep
I predicted this years ago. I am a genius. It will only get worse. |
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Logan 5
Some people go WAY over the top
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join:2001-05-25
The WasteLAN
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
|  Stories like this one, make ME impatient.....
For them to end, as there is (IMHO) no way that BB can make anyone "impatient". It is a commodity item and is incapable of independent action.
Now if someone is a "Type A" personality, then I *suppose* the story could be 'technically' accurate as all Type "A"'s are VERY impatient/highstrung by nature anyway.... |
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courty3210
join:2004-03-29
Wilmington, DE | What's a "TYPE A"??? and what would a type B be? |
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Blackhood5
I Escaped Convergys
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join:2002-08-24
Tallahassee, FL
clubs: | Impatient people
Maybe broadband isnt making people impatient. Maybe its people that are already impatient buying broadband.
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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Tulsa, OK
·AT&T Yahoo
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| reply to Jehu
Re: yep
Everybody hates waiting in line and on hold... Plus their perceptions time / reality get whacked quickly when waiting in line.
If a person waits in line 30 seconds, they act like it's 5 minutes. If they wait 5 minutes, they act like it's half an hour, and if it's half an hour, why they've been standing in line ALL DAY.
People often receive excellent superfast customer service and yet think they got really bad poor service because they had to wait as little as 45 seconds to 2 minutes to get served.
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Logan 5
Some people go WAY over the top
Premium,MVM
join:2001-05-25
The WasteLAN
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| reply to Logan 5
Re: Stories like this one, make ME impatient.....
"Type A" people are typically lawyers, doctors, policeman, stockbrokers or any high-stress profession. They are as I said before, impatient/highstrung by nature likely from the high levels of adrenaline and stress that accompany their professions.
Plus many of them can be "anal-retentive" as well.... |
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Hellfish
join:2003-02-26
Naperville, IL
| reply to Blackhood5
Re: Impatient people
said by Blackhood5  :
Maybe broadband isnt making people impatient. Maybe its people that are already impatient buying broadband.
that's exactly what I was thinking. You can't use one to prove the other.
and in the immortal words of homer simpson, "Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything. 14% of people know that." |
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DoubleT
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join:2002-04-09
Dallas, TX | I was going to say
I had some really great observation to make...but I got tired of waiting around for the page to load and I forgot it.
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StormFury
Evil Munky
join:2003-07-11
Sunnyvale, CA
clubs: 
| reply to Blackhood5
Re: Impatient people
said by Blackhood5 :
Maybe broadband isnt making people impatient. Maybe its people that are already impatient buying broadband.
Heck yeah. Waiting = teh sucks.
Quick question: can any of you switch back to dial-up?
I know I'd rather move than use dial-up since Im so used to broadband now. |
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N3OGH
Bear patrol must be working like a charm
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join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs | reply to Jehu
Re: yep
Would you people hurry up and post, I'm sick of waiting... |
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technick
Premium
join:2000-12-16
Loganville, GA
| I hate waiting...
Hell, at work we have 4-5 channels open on our T1 (fractional t-1 more like it) for internet, the rest of the channels are used for voice. It really sucks, it's like dialup on steriods.. I download everything at home and bring it into work... 30-40kb/s just doesn't begin to cut it for me. |
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dragonhorse
join:2004-06-30
Ottawa, ON
| reply to StormFury
Re: Impatient people
laith for your answer...I'll rather use dialup *than* cable
more than enough for me and very cheap anyhow 
I guess the real problem (and read slowly) is that people get impatient because they upgrade or whateversome and not realize their error and they get stuck in it. like try the example of someone who had always driven a I4 car with no problem for a long time and somehow traded up to a V8 then suddenly find it too difficult to get used to I4 cars again.....there's da problem
dragonhorse... |
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technick
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join:2000-12-16
Loganville, GA | reply to StormFury
I would leave the internet before switching back to dialup |
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antiphishing
Phishing Scam Terminator
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join:2004-06-09
Wilkes Barre, PA
2 edits | People want quicker, 'always on' reality
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seems more likely that people simply hate automated phone systems
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Automated Phone Systems Hell.
Push 1:For Windows. (Twenty more menu's after this)
Push 2:For Macintosh. ( Laughs, then hangs up.)
Push 3:For all other operating systems. (Transfers the call to the Philippines which then you can't understand what the heck the Tech Support people are saying.)
Push 4:For the previous menu ( Takes you ten steps back.)
Push 5:To hear what your balance is? ( Which is always wrong because the company overcharges you all the time. )
Push 6: To change your password? (Resets the old password now you can't access your account. You will then have to go back twenty steps to find out how to get the information to find your new password.)
Push 7: To speak with someone that's not in India (But then you will be on hold for at least two hours )
Push 8: To cancel this call. ( Which then you will have to go through fifty steps to get back to this point.)
Push 9: To leave a message (So the company doesn't have to pay more people to deal with your tech support issue.)
Push 0: We can't understand your option.
Push #: Sorry that's not a option we can accept.
Push *: Busy signal.
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barqsdrinker
What Can I Photograph Today?
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join:2001-02-26
Apo, AE
clubs: | Oops
Nevermind... The word was impatient not impotent.... 
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RadioDoc
58ef2c0
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join:2000-05-11
·AT&T Midwest
| Reality?
"People want quicker, 'always on' reality".
Reality?
Look out the fooking window. That's reality, and it's always on, and always has been...
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pacmanfan
Premium
join:2003-11-22
Mansfield, MO | They think they know impatient?
I can't imagine being any more impatient at anything besides this 28.8kbps connection I've got here. It's my reality  |
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hedyd4u
Premium
join:2003-12-16
Schenectady, NY | On all that was said here
Did anyone read all this I need the condensed version to save time. |
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BosstonesOwn
join:2002-12-15
Everett, MA
clubs:
·Comcast
| reply to KrK
Re: yep
said by KrK :
Everybody hates waiting in line and on hold... Plus their perceptions time / reality get whacked quickly when waiting in line.
If a person waits in line 30 seconds, they act like it's 5 minutes. If they wait 5 minutes, they act like it's half an hour, and if it's half an hour, why they've been standing in line ALL DAY.
People often receive excellent superfast customer service and yet think they got really bad poor service because they had to wait as little as 45 seconds to 2 minutes to get served.
I think it's more related to the falsehood that time = money myself. that was spread on every one since the 50's probably even earlier.
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TheMadSwede
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join:2001-01-30
Holland, MI
·Charter Pipeline
| We should have first...
...taken a poll to see how many of the posts in this thread would be stupid joke posts about impatience.
And the funniest part is each guy thinks he's the first that thought it would be funny to post a joke response.
Hilarious.
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