Home
Meet a Ghost
Another Ghost
Actual People
Hors d'Oeuvres
Resources:
Search:
Auto
Auto repair. Largely dishonest for a century now, and glad. Not only honest but big-hearted mechanics who can fix anything actually yet exist. Sometimes they're the guys selling a priceless part for $10 at a boot hill auto salvage. Mechanics are sometimes falsely accused upon some coincidence or other. But people trust them about as much as doctors for good reason: auto repair presents perfect conditions to exploit even those who are not mechanically ignorant. If you know of an exceptional and trustworthy mechanic who can do it all at reasonable rates you might like to applaud him/her on Viola Fair. They're a dying breed, thus gold, disappearing with free air at greedy gas stations. (The last free-air station in my area lost customer loyalty when they not only removed the exceptional mechanic, in favor of one more of thousands of junk food stores, but started charging for air. The concept of the Good Samaritan helping motorists in distress has been substituted with Twinkies and pounce-on-every-last-coin mentality. Another case of excellence shot to hell for profit, puny at that.)
Computers, Software and the Online Realm
The wild frontier of cash for crash, where the outlaws would appear to be simplicity, essential information up front or not entirely missing, honesty without avarice, dependability, compatibility, comprehensible lingo and logic itself. False accusation here is immeasurably easier than that with auto mechanics. It's very easy to believe that one's problem is this when it may actually be any of a countless number of thats. Since this is known to be the case the consumer is sometimes left stranded between two or more companies who fault the consumer's problem, inherited immediately upon purchase, on any number of companies or factors other than their own. That is, no one knows Jack, such that good tech support means knowing increasingly far more than only one's own product. And since not all tech support knows Jack the consumer gets the gentle brush-off, and is left with problems for his money about which nothing can be done.
Electronics
The industry that proved the viability of evolutionary theory in economics, especially upon the transistor, then discovered that well-made products are not nearly so profitable as the otherwise.
Insurance (auto)
Statistics always favorable toward the purchase of more real estate, more capital stocks, more hairs to split and coins to shave. Besides bill collection there exists no other commerce so conveniently capable of picking the consumer's pocket in return for nothing but continuous damage. If these are businesses blessed by God then God is Apollyon.
Telecommunications
Bill shakes the nest. Now it's every possibly maneuver – ethical or not while guaranteed to be absurdly expensive – that can be discovered to grab the customer's twenty, and another, and another. Alas, the days of dialing Melrose and trusty repairmen in jangling tool belts are long past. One would also think that an industry so important to the welfare of a country and its citizens would be available and working 24/7, no days off and no holidays, like I largely have been for a couple of decades. Ditto ISPs and website hosts.
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
