{"id":62,"date":"2011-08-09T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/2011\/08\/i-cant-tell-you.html"},"modified":"2012-10-28T15:53:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T11:53:05","slug":"i-cant-tell-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/2011\/08\/i-cant-tell-you.html","title":{"rendered":"I can&#8217;t tell you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a rather frustrating, and completely fruitless, conversation with a customer service person today on the phone. Unfortunately, as entertaining as this conversation may have been for you to read, I cannot share it with you. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/news\/uae-news\/law-forces-name-and-shame-website-to-close\" target=\"new\">According to the law here it is illegal to &#8220;name and shame&#8221; companies that give bad customer service<\/a>, in fact not only is it illegal but you can be prosecuted for libel and go to jail (I would guess <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hellopeter.com\/\"><i>HelloPeter<\/i><\/a> is probably not eyeing the Middle East as his next target &#8211; more&#8217;s the pity).<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-411\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/canstock5466909.jpg\" alt=\"dont-criticise\" title=\"dont-criticise\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-full wp-image-411\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[don&#8217;t criticise please]<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<br \/>\nPerhaps even discussing this law would be a bad idea, so all I can say on this matter is that had a very pointless conversation with a customer &#8220;service&#8221; representative and then I gave up in disgust, hanging up on the person I was trying to speak to. I am not proud of this behaviour, but it was either that, or swear at the individual. I chose, I think, the lesser of the two evils.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMy mounting irritation, and my mood in general, was not helped in any way by the horrible weather today, extremely hot and sticky with 85% humidity.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI hope your National Women&#8217;s Day (in South Africa in any case) was good.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSee you soon.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><i>image source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canstockphoto.com\/\" target=\"new\">CanStock Photo<\/a><\/i><\/span><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a rather frustrating, and completely fruitless, conversation with a customer service person today on the phone. Unfortunately, as entertaining as this conversation may have been for you to read, I cannot share it with you. According to the law here it is illegal to &#8220;name and shame&#8221; companies that give bad customer service, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","category-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}