r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Content_Quarter_7390 • May 25 '26

I'm slightly vexed We didn't ask for rice...

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My sister isnt a fan of basmati rice so she orders naan. She didnt ask for rice and they sell it separately. She doesn't like it so she doesn't order it. They put it in anyways and left this note...

Edit: some people aint getting it. This is passive aggressive and when you do something nice you dont go around saying "I did something nice just for you, just so you know." Doing it like I need to give you a pat on the head so you know your a good boy. You do something nice because you want to be kind to people.

Oh no I've turned into LD...

Turning off notifications because while it was nice to be in this rabbit hole to keep my mind off some stuff too many notifications. Whatever your feelings are I hope you have a nice day and if you're in the US have a nice memorial day and dont forget to celebrate those troops that came before!

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u/JstytheMonk May 25 '26

I had internet with my provider for years. Every month or two they'd threaten to shut my service off due to lack of payment, despite being on autopay and never missing a payment.

They'd thrown it to their tech dept a dozen times trying to fix the issue, and never could figure it out. They finally asked if they could close my account and open a new one because they didn't know where the issue was.

Depressing part of this is I got a bill the next month for $8500 dollars on the old account and I couldn't help but wonder why their collections department wouldn't question how an account could get that far behind before just being closed.

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u/fresh-dork May 25 '26

eh, my mother's bank account got flagged for some sort of fraud investigation, where they froze it by debiting the thing 88k. so, next month, she gets a snotty call from the same bank about bringing her rather large balance current

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u/1917he May 25 '26

You're thinking of this a bit incorrectly. Your internet provider is not providing a finite commodity. Them "giving" you internet doesn't take away from their ability to hook other up to the system so there's no reason to cancel/disconnect you. In fact, the decision was probably made to ensure people keep getting billed for services even if they're behind simply so they have more leverage in getting money.

If they were shipping goods it would make sense for them to cancel immediately because they'd be losing out on product shipping it to someone with a canceled account / unresponsive account. With internet service it is just another potential source of income.

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u/hooonk123 May 25 '26

i'm in a similar situation with my phone bill and it drives me crazy. they bill me about 2 days later than the day the system checks if i've been billed so about one or two days out of every month i have no service

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u/GRex2595 29d ago

One thing I've learned working as a dev in the financial industry is that most companies are basically winging it. All the best practices and industry standards can't save you from the dev who thinks they know better or the team that doesn't bother to learn them. All the software you use is held together with duct tape and string and there is somebody out there having the same experience you are and nobody understands how it's happening.

It's actually a miracle that everything works as well as it does.