google google google
many many years ago
i had a picasa account
it linked to the blog
made editing easy peasy
along came picnik
i embraced picnik
stored my photos there
it too linked easily with my blog
google swallowed picnik
changed it
made it less appealing
but
somewhere along the way
google
told me
to store photos on picasa i would need to pay or lose them
panicked i would lose all my photos access
i agreed
i am not sure when
i learned
to hate google
but i did
i do
as a search engine its wonderful
i refuse to even try its microsoft competitor
my hate for microsoft
is even greater than for google
i stick with google for my blogs
only because
i am too lazy
to learn
to build/maintain
my own website
wednesday
a pink banner
appeared
across the top of my gmail
it encouraged me
to click and update my payment info for my google storage
i clicked
it took me to a page
where i had to agree or decline the new rules
since
i didn't want
to continue
google storage
i declined
click here
it said
to quit google storage
click i did
took me to another page
where i was told to click
that
took me back to the beginning
GAH
so
i initiated a google call
you fill out a form
give them your #
they call you
from
whothefuckknowswhere
i spoke to 'matt'
my email address had to be told/read/spelled to him
four times
before he 'got' it
then
he said
he'd cancel my google storage
a confirmation would be emailed
today (thursday)
i got an email
from google
telling me
they tried to call
but couldn't reach me
so please
tell them what i wanted
finally
i spoke for 15 minutes to 'mark'
who i verbally abused
because
i am not a nice person and i was fed up
'mark' was only able to end my google wallet
what?
i dont use google wallet
i dont want google wallet
he apologized
but
that was all he could do
after questioning my clarity of thought
because why would i want to end this relationship
i told him
i was old enough to be his mother
that his questioning my decision was insulting
finally
he cut my ties with something i never had
then
told me
i had to hold on
while he transferred me
to
someone
who
could end
my google storage
wtf?
was that not why i called?
he apologized
he was only able to help with wallet issues
aaaaaaaaargh
i agreed
in a very testy way
to be put on hold
while he transferred me
to
a storage ender
another 4 minutes elapsed
he returned to say
no need to transfer me
he had successfully ended my google storage
he began again to tell me all i would miss out on
i hung up
the pink notice
continues
to hang above my gmail
now
if i click
it takes me to a page
chiding me
on
attempting to access
something i am not permitted access to!
oh google
i think i might be hating you more than i do microsoft
this rant brought to you by my being home sick with the world's worst cold