Ok, so small ranting session about the stupidity of multi-billion dollar companies that STILL can't get things together when it comes to organizing their sites properly, with a side note on the stupidity of stupid people who post how-to-videos... (sorry ahead of time for all the typos that are about to insue)
First... COMMON! I had to jump through fifteen hoops and spend almost an hour trying to figure out how the get my old email address off of my blog and merge it to my new gmail account.
First things first, I had a Comcast account. I got this account when I got Comcast internet back in, ooooooh 1888! (I mean 2005 ;p) I had Comcast's services for about a year. Since then I was continually allowed to use my Comcast email even though I did not have Comcast service of any kind under my name... and by "continually allowed" I mean I was able to use it up until 3 months ago. ie- 2011!... ie- 5 years.... 5 YEARS! as in 5 years I didn't have comcast service and they let me use my email account always saying to me "No, that's fine, we're sure you have lots of important emails and linked accounts to said email, so we're letting you keep it." So, I went from that to having 5 HOURS one, balmy day in September to figure out every account I had linked to my comcast email and change it fast. Not to mention, get a NEW email, go through the hoop jumping of every single other type of account I have in order to change to my new email address AND hope I remembered to switch everything or fuck you very much.
So I do this... and I think "I got everything, no worries"... except I forgot about my stupid blog! Which I admit doesn't have much to it... but will be disabled and deleted in 3 hours if I dont put a working email address to it.
NOW you're thinking, well... this shouldnt be a problem! you got a new email address!... WRONG! I type in my gmail account "sorry cant use that"... i type it in as a secondary at least "sorry can't do that" ARG! WHAT NOW?! I have to get yet another email account that will be disabled in a few months cause I won't use it? I'll have to keep going in an endless cycle like this?! Fuck blogs now... I have a journal, I can whine to myself and stop complaining to the world!
SO... on to the customer complaint department... that ever so sweetly directs me to the FAQ page everytime that I CANT find what I want on the FAQ page! I need an FAQ page for the FAQ page!! WAIT! whats this? in the bottom left hand corner in 7 point font/ white on white background? Is that a merge accounts button?! have I been saved?! *click*
"Sorry, but we cannot merge accounts at this time. We know this is a problem lots of people have as you can see by our 'do you have a gmail account and a blog account under a different email?... well we can't ever-ever merge those cause we don't like you nah-nah-nah-nah-nah!' section... but please, refer yourself to our 'bounce back and forth 20 times between you're blog login that's wrong and the one you want to merge it with' and you'll eventually sort it out and have it all under you're new email! (in the year 2062). All of this can be done in just 10000000000238 simple clicks! have a great day!!"
UHG! so after much gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair and angry noises that I believe scared my boyfriend cause he is now in the corner hugging himself and rocking back and forth.... I have fixed the problem. No thanks to 2 companies at the tippy top of the that wonderful 1%.
Thank you!
And, as a side note... if you're going to post a how its done video, please, make it short, to the point, without that awful slow techno-jazz-fusion music, never repeat yourself more than once (and NEVER fucking more than 50 times... no we don't think its cute so stop laughing at yourself), also no one cares who you are... we need a tutorial... this isnt a one-sided meet and greet you egotistical crazy ass! and last but not least remember that making these videos you are essentially talking to yourself . its kind of creepy when you do that!
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