I Can’t Get Over How Lazy People Are

(Otherwise Entitled: A General Rant About Australia and it’s Occupants, Caused by my Enraged Hormones)

I’m still without internet, and now I’m just more than annoyed. When we signed up last week, we were informed on the signup page that it could take up to 21 days to get connected. I was agape over that – surely this country isn’t THAT backward that it takes so long to get an ADSL line up and running!

My brother assured me that when he had his connection at Mum’s house, it only took a week to get hooked in. Satisfied, and my faith restored in the non-backwardness of Australia, I was happy to wait a week. After all, it did take only a week for my ADSL line back in Connecticut, to get hooked up and ready to go. I don’t think that’s particularly unreasonable.

We were given an order/reference number on our ADSL order, and every couple of days, D would check the status from work. On Monday the status gave an ETA of the 6th, that the phone company was informed and they would be implementing our service by that date. Our lines were checked and we are indeed able to receive an ADSL line; all we were waiting on was the phone company to shift into gear, and go do it.

We’re still waiting today. My brother called up in the internet provider we’re going through, and they did a quick check to see what was going on. It seems that Telstra (the most ass backward phone company EVER) still haven’t gotten around to connecting the line. And, since we are going through an independent provider, it’s out of their hands now. Apparently we can’t even call Telstra on it either, and find out when the hell they’re going to get moving on FLIPPING THE SWITCH because we are not going through them directly.

Oh yes, I’m more than annoyed now. Even more so because I missed the wedding of two very dear friends of mine today! They got married in Vegas, and they were doing a live broadcast for everyone who was interested in watching. I swear, it’s days like this that I really, really miss America and wonder why the hell I’m living here now.

It’s not just Telstra though. I’m so fed up with the general laziness of Australians and Australian companies. D had to wait THREE MONTHS to get his laptop fixed, and he only needed his ram stick replaced! Three months of constantly calling Toshiba Australia, three months of being pushed around, three months of them telling him he had to call someone else, ad nauseum. It’s ridiculous. On top of that, we informed our real estate agent LAST WEEK that there are many things around this house that need fixing. She said she was going to contact the owner (who happens to be Middle Eastern of all races) and the building company. Do you think anything has been fixed? Do you think anyone has contacted us regarding it – including our oh-so-wonderful real estate agent? No, why would they? If we ignore it, they’ll go away.

Honestly, so many companies, so many people we have dealt with over here so far, have left such a bad taste in our mouths. Is it so freaking hard to get up off your flat, lazy asses and FIX things that need fixing? Yes Australia is a wonderful country in and of itself. The people are friendly for the most part, even though in my opinion the ladies over here could be a little less uncouth, and the weather is generally beautiful even when it’s pushing 40 degrees and my feet swell to the size of balloons. If you can overlook the fact that they’re just so lazy then this is a great place to be. It’s one thing to be laidback and slow, it’s something completely different to take it the ultimate extreme and turn it into pure laziness.

All countries have their ups and downs, this I know. It’s just a matter of choosing the lesser of the evils – much like in the last US elections – and stick with it. I’m just rapidly losing interest here; there’s so much I can’t stand and the laziness is a huge factor. The monopolizing ranks high up there too. Oh, and the unemployment system; what a joke THAT is. Don’t get me started on the outrageous taxes either, not that Canada is any better.

Bah. End Rant.