Monday, October 17, 2005

You'll never believe it. Today I got a call from Walmart. At first I thought, aw fuck, a check bounced. But no, it was in regards to the complaint I submitted through the Walmart website, about the dead and rotting fish in their pet department. You could have knocked me over -- I *never* expected to hear back about this. Well, the manager apologized and said the tanks have been cleaned up. Apparently what happened is, their regular fish person was out on leave for surgery and their replacement was a shitbird (not her words). I did notice that their regular staff member, whom I always presumed to be the "fish person" wasn't there last time. So staff member is sick and no one cleans the tanks. Suck. Hopefully it won't happen again. So I got a call back; ultimately I don't know what, if any, good my complaint did, but at least I took some sort of action.

"Take action!" "Action will be taken!" Have you ever read that short story? It's a gas, and a total riff on the German obsession with efficiency. Can't remember the author's name, but if you're interested I can find it for you.

posted by Newpeep, N.D. (neurotic depressive) @ 9:01 PM

3 Comments:

At 6:59 AM, Blogger Balwearie said...

If only more folks would complain about Walmart, perhaps things would start to happen. Probably not much since we're too addicted in this culture to cheap shit, but at least if they didn't kill the fish that would be a step in the right direction.

I'm always up for a story about German efficiency!

 
At 3:50 PM, Blogger Newpeep, N.D. (neurotic depressive) said...

Well, the name of the story is Action Will Be Taken by Heinrich Boell (or Boll with an umlaut). I couldn't find a copy of it on-line 'cause it's too new, but hopefully you can find it in your library. It's just a ten-minute read, but it made me cackle!

 
At 6:41 AM, Blogger Balwearie said...

Danke! I'll look out for that.

 

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