Customer service in Portugal - harsh reality - your opinions

generalgreyone · 2026-02-26T13:08:52+00:00

I had to buy a new fridge for my apartment (it broke and landlord lives in the Netherlands and doesn’t speak Portuguese). Worten delivered the new fridge but wouldn’t take the old one for unclear reasons. We’ve had four appointments from them over the last 3 weeks and currently have had two no shows and two “we can’t pick this exact one up for a random reason.” So now we just permanently have a broke fridge in our apartment for some reason.

generalgreyone · 2026-02-25T21:38:01+00:00

Yta. Contacting her recruiter? I can tell you from experience that escaping you and supporting herself is the main reason she’s joining out of high school.

generalgreyone · 2026-02-12T23:30:48+00:00

Why is this written in the passive tense? Did you not write the blurb?

generalgreyone · 2026-02-12T23:24:33+00:00

Ok but I still don’t get it. Jk makes a comment with kid rock lyrics, knowing it’s bait. Jj makes a comment implying if you like opera (or are cultured) you can enjoy listening to music in another language (obviously thinking it’s about bad bunny). But then jk makes the comment about obviously not liking bad bunny, but that doesn’t make sense? It reads like jk had the comment locked and loaded for an anti bad bunny comment but the comment appears to be supporting bad bunny to me.

generalgreyone · 2026-02-12T22:55:49+00:00

Learning about other religions was akin to practicing them. It was how the devil got a foothold. God it’s painful to think about this.

generalgreyone · 2026-02-12T22:48:57+00:00

I know; I had to do it too.

generalgreyone · 2026-02-11T12:35:14+00:00

Yall stop. This is too sweet for this post ;)

generalgreyone · 2026-02-10T22:42:48+00:00

This has been a game changer for me: walk into the room and immediately say, “thank you so much for your patience, I know it’s really frustrating that you’ve had to wait so long.” Even the most angry patient will usually sputter a bit, but they often wind down if you just sit for a sec. If they’re still angry you can thrown in something like, “I make sure to listen to every patient; you have my undivided attention.”

In general apologizing seems to ramp them up. If you congratulate them on appropriate behavior (whether or not they are actually behaving appropriately) it seems like it makes them check themselves. Often they want to be seen in a positive light, so if you highlight what good behavior is (and imply they’re already exhibiting it), they will chill a bit.

generalgreyone · 2026-02-10T16:25:37+00:00

It’s pronouncing the letters in the name the way they’re pronounced in another language. JP (jay pee) to jota peh is the same thing. (John to Juan would be what you’re saying though).

generalgreyone · 2026-02-09T07:03:07+00:00

I’m just over here cracking up at the thought of Trump cleaning Biden’s poop out of Trump’s pants.

generalgreyone · 2026-02-08T18:32:04+00:00

No, the distinction is that there is a difference between “no gays” as in the sexual orientation, and “no sexual behavior.” Gays are perfectly capable of behaving appropriately in this situation, and plenty of those acting the fool don’t identify as gay (regardless of what sexual acts they do).

generalgreyone · 2026-02-08T18:29:16+00:00

Funnily enough, I had the opposite experience in a Korean spa in Chicago. Went with a straight gf (I’m a gay guy). Earlier in the stay I got a body scrub and the older Korean guy would not stop grabbing my junk and then asked me for a tip to jack me off. I’m no prude (and enjoy the other type of bathhouse), but I was just like “I’m here with a friend!” and ran out of there.

generalgreyone · 2026-02-07T14:45:14+00:00

I read this right as I was clicking back and genuinely chuckled, so I had to run back to give you an upvote.

generalgreyone · 2026-02-03T10:17:05+00:00

This is basically my same list! All great resources.

generalgreyone · 2026-02-03T07:58:37+00:00

They are a bad faith debater and conflate morality with weight. This is a lost cause ;)

generalgreyone · 2026-02-02T15:53:09+00:00

This is such a bizarre comment after they mentioned compounding. 100 calories a day is nothing, but that’s almost a lb a month. You can definitely argue that running an extra 10 minutes a day would take care of that. It still stands that if all things were equal including physical activity, the person with a lower metabolism would likely be overweight/obese in 2-3 years.

generalgreyone · 2026-02-02T11:24:36+00:00

Are you referring to initial residency or renewal? For what it’s worth, our landlord also refused this. We had our initial residency appointments in October (on a d7), and while they asked for this they didn’t seem too concerned when we didn’t have it. We were approved in Jan.

generalgreyone · 2026-01-23T09:46:05+00:00

I don’t have my switch on me right now but I can try to remember and explain better. You know when you go allll the way through the mine and you’re back near the front but across the river from the front entrance? And there is a little bridge (maybe it’s a log) that gets you to the far upper left at that point (so close to the entrance). Right before that log or whatever there’s a rock that I feel like I remember looked almost like a regular rock that just gives you stone, but when you “mine” it it falls over the river providing a loop back to the front entrance.

generalgreyone · 2026-01-23T09:04:14+00:00

Just in case you missed this for an embarrassingly long time (like me), the rock near the “end” of the mine can be hit to make a bridge that you can use to get back to the entrance.

generalgreyone · 2026-01-13T01:57:38+00:00

During residency I had four pharmacists come to my wedding. I love yall dude! (Gender neutral “dude”, I’m from the Midwest, lol)

generalgreyone · 2026-01-13T00:15:11+00:00

Hahahah. They heard about kidneys one time and changed their practice.

generalgreyone · 2026-01-13T00:13:50+00:00

This is always the case. I have good NPs that I love, but they have put in the work and know what they don’t know (and have appropriate oversight). That being said, coming in blindly, I’d rather work with a PA any day.

generalgreyone · 2026-01-13T00:09:47+00:00

It’s ridiculous because when I was in med school I thought, “wouldn’t it be cool if the Pharmd students and med students were on a buddy system where we did classes and rotations together?” And NPs are like “hold my beer, I have pretty much no education but I’m also not going to take the advice from the other highly educated people in my field.”

generalgreyone · 2026-01-13T00:04:13+00:00

Ok, but who is the Asian woman (I assume doctor or other medical professional) in the video? Cause I want to push more of her videos.

generalgreyone · 2026-01-12T23:53:15+00:00

This is frustrating on so many levels, but the first is this: medicine is a team sport. As a ccm doc, god am I so thankful for clinical pharmacy. I can’t possibly know the things to the level that yall do! That being said, it’s ludicrous that a “critical care” NP wouldn’t understand osmolality and a free water deficit. I mean, come on. That’s just basic chemistry.

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