{"id":113220,"date":"2016-02-19T18:54:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T18:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/19\/cracked-so-let-me-ask-you-the-potential\/"},"modified":"2018-09-03T09:10:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T09:10:19","slug":"cracked-so-let-me-ask-you-the-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/19\/cracked-so-let-me-ask-you-the-potential\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-113220 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/19\/cracked-so-let-me-ask-you-the-potential\/attachment\/113221\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tumblr_o2ngi6LPUu1qz5q5lo1_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tumblr_o2ngi6LPUu1qz5q5lo1_640-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tumblr_o2ngi6LPUu1qz5q5lo1_640-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/cracked.tumblr.com\/post\/139497672505\" target=\"_blank\">cracked<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So let me ask you, the potential customers in this scenario: If you\u2019re handed paperwork that says using your phone in Canada will cost you more than North Korea spends on parades in a year and you fail to read it, whose fault is it when you come back from Canada with a $5,000 phone bill? Right, it\u2019s your fault. You had the information there in front of you and chose to ignore it in favor of tracking down the wackiest ringtone you could find. But you\u2019re going to call and complain anyway. Why? Because the customer is always right! Except that\u2019s a lie. The customer is not always right. Not in the scenario I just mentioned, and not in countless other situations. Recently, in England, some dude was kicked out of a bar for refusing to put his cigarette out. Was he right to refuse this request, even though he was in a nonsmoking establishment? Furthermore, was he right when he returned later and started chasing the other bar patrons around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complex.com\/city-guide\/2012\/02\/uk-man-attacks-bar-patrons-with-chainsaw\" target=\"_blank\">with a fucking chainsaw<\/a> as a means to express his displeasure? Is that customer right? Yes, if you take \u201cThe customer is always right\u201d literally, he\u2019s totally in the right.<\/p>\n<p>And people do take it literally. That\u2019s why, even when they know that whatever disaster they\u2019re calling about is the result of their own idiocy, they call and complain anyway. And you know what? Even when you\u2019re clearly in the wrong, you still might get the help you\u2019re looking for.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/blog\/5-idiotic-misconceptions-about-calling-customer-service\/\" target=\"_blank\">5 Idiotic Misconceptions About Calling Customer Service<\/a><\/b><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cracked: So let me ask you, the potential customers in this scenario: If you\u2019re handed paperwork that says using your phone in Canada will cost you more than North Korea spends on parades in a year and you fail to read it, whose fault is it when you come back from Canada with a $5,000 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/19\/cracked-so-let-me-ask-you-the-potential\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[11222,382,13738,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113222,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113220\/revisions\/113222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}