7/18/2004 08:14:01 PM|||Foton|||Grumpy thought SWG CSRs were the stuff of mythology. Like Medusa or the Kracken. Something old-timers told small children to scare them into eating their brussel sprouts, like the boogie man.

NOT SO. They do exist. Grumpy knows this because he got an ACTUAL EMAIL from one of them.

A few weeks back, Grumpy had /petitioned because his vendors decided to eat some of his 7 BER medium mineral deeds. For crissakes, why they chose to dine on those instead of his low-margin house deeds is beyond him. Grumpy was insane with anger at a system determined to keep the little merchant down!

So Grumpy petitioned, knowing that it was on insta-delete, knowing that some 17 year old surfer was laughing at his predicament, knowing that it was fruitless.

NOT SO!! O ye, of little faith. Grumpy got an actual reply to his petition not even 20 days later! The reply told him that their research (Grumpy chuckled at this) had indicated no anamolies in the database system (further chuckles) and that they could do nothing to aid him (rolling of eyes). HOWEVER!!! (hope springs eternal) they do offer a one-time reimbursement of ONE lost item, without solid, beyond-a-shadow-of-a-doubt-type proof - that might be required in a capital murder trial - and Grumpy could use that at this time (hilarity ensues at Grumpy's house).

Grumpy thinks they should just turn the knife while they have it in his back.

Grumpy is not one to let a good deed go unrewarded. Grumpy replied back with a few suggestions of his own. Number one - How about you investigate these things within a few days when the audit trail is still intact on items that ALL HAVE A UNIQUE SERIAL NUMBER, instead of WEEKS LATER. (He used caps so they could read this clearly). Number two - Maybe if your server databases didn't lag horrifically 20 hours out of 24, losing items in the vendor/bazaar system wouldn't be an issue AT ALL. Number three - He just lost a holocron to the same phantom anamolies and would prefer a reimbursement of that, thank you very much. <-- this was a lie and he pointed that out; Grumpy is no thief, but don't get him started on holocrons unless you have a LOT of spare time.

Grumpy anxiously awaits the non-reply.

Grumpy is hopeful that his rage against the machine will get folk songs written about him, the stuff of mythology and all that. Grumpy fancies himself like Thomas Jefferson, starting a brave, new world, boinking his slaves, and being labeled a hero by the generations to come. Grumpy wants to be known as a SWG TERRORIST, a threat to the establishment, intent and focused in his determination to knock out the pillars of inertia that stagnate a bureaucracy out of control. Grumpy still believes the pen is mightier than the sword!

Actually, Grumpy would just settle for his gd deeds being restored to him.

The Grumpy Master Architect ©

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