Nick Cuhaciyan’s blog!

For those that know, I’ve been a little sidetracked lately–which is why there haven’t been too many posts. Hopefully soon though.

You probably know the U.S. is in serious debt–do you know the extent of the debt? As a country, we’re spending well beyond our means, and our way of life is not sustainable for the future. The current generation of politicians are spending beyond their means so future generations can clean their mess. We’re borrowing .22c of every dollar we spend!

Thankfully, we have some brilliant people bringing attention to the topic so we can fix it as a country. This is outrageous, and everyone should be upset. This is a bipartisan effort to help fix the problem. Hopefully this encourages people to get up and do something.

Here are a few pictures from the game.

Notice on the first pic, a lady is staring at me while I eat the hotdog. She looks mortified.

And a couple more…

That’s all for now. Stay tuned for more!!

This is beyond Xbox Live. It can be applied to anything found on the Internet, more specifically, online games. As for the comments he makes, I couldn’t have said it better myself. The things people say to each other online can be pretty disturbing.

Want to read the responses to the video? Click here.

Here are some comments I found interesting:

Well Adam has a very valid point. Although I think that it would be less prevalent if there were more games with a minority as a lead or even playable characters, hey that’s an idea for a game you get to walk around in the shoes of a minority and experince what it’s like to get discrimanated but even if they made it I doubt it would sell cause no one could really hack it.

grow up you are all crying over what some kid half way across the world said mute them block them and then keep playing. theres plenty of people who don’t like it and if everyone blocked them and gave them bad reviews they would stop

yea i was playin Halo 3 and someone on my team was sayin u play like a “N” word i just blocked him and sent complaint

I think Adam is right. I also think it was pretty cool that, even though he isn’t gay, he didn’t stop in the middle of the video and say “I’m not gay or anything, but…” I’m not gay either (see I’m not as strong a man as he) but I noticed that that’s how straight people always approach a gay topic. Good job Sess.

If you use this company, you will probably get screwed too.

Recently, I decided to take a piece of my popcorn ceiling and send it to a lab to check for asbestos. The bad news came back, it tested positive for asbestos.

Now, I know if you don’t “play with it” it wont hurt you. However, I’d feel a lot better with it gone, and it’s flat out ugly. After checking around online, I decided to go with Affordable Abatement.

A sales rep named Bill Hudson came by to do an estimate. He was fairly friendly and seemed knowledgeable. We talked about the time line for the service, and I was quoted 3 days. Fast forward to the beginning of the project. Since I had to move out of my house, I had to head over to the house in the morning to let the crew in. The supervisor asked me for my house key so he can let himself in the following days. Of course, I said no. He started to argue and tell me he was insured and bonded. Well buddy, that’s great. I’m still not giving you my key.

Within 2 days the service was completed. I was excited–2 days early!! When I went inside, I started to see the damage. My ceiling had severe damage from the workers. In the contract, I signed a waiver acknowledging “some” damage would occur, but this was excessive. On top of this, they put several staples into my walls and baseboards to cover them. After checking online, I found other users commenting that they were “rough on the edges” with getting the work done. (Lucky for me, I have a great dad who has been in construction. He spent an entire day mudding and taping to clean up the damage they had done.)

Upon inspecting the work, I notice a few problems. The screen for my bedroom is missing (why was this even messed with?) My cold air return went was damaged and missing from the house. They broke the towel rack in the bathroom, and lost some of the pieces from a light fixture in a hallway. The worst part you ask? Take a look below:

What’s that? An enormous piece of popcorn ceiling they didn’t even bother removing!! Maybe if they weren’t busy rushing through the job, they wouldn’t have missed things like this.

Fast forward to the resolution portion. I contacted Bill Hudson immediately who wanted to come to my house. Within hours of my e-mail, the supervisor came back to my house WITH MY WINDOW SCREEN to put it back up. Again, why was this taken?!?!

With him, he brought an employee named Ken Knudsen who is in charge of inspecting work. As soon as Ken came into the house, he started blaming me for the problems the workers encountered.

For the cold air return vent, he told me because of how it was installed, they had to break it to take it down and it’s not their fault. Let me set the record straight for you Ken. If this is the case, you can either not take it down. Or, simply call me and let me know what’s going on and ask what decision I want to make.

Now, for the towel rack. He asked how they could possibly knock down the towel rack, and pretty much told me it was my fault.

At this point, I knew I was getting nowhere. Clearly, this guy had a chip on his shoulder, and he was rude and accusatory. Luckily Bill Hudson appeared to be decent enough to offer the proper parts to fix the towel rack, and a replacement vent. They took a measurement of the opening and said they would get back to me. A few days later, Ken drops off a vent and leaves. Guess what? It doesn’t fix!! I don’t know how he could measure something and bring me another item that doesn’t fit. I sent off another e-mail…

5 days pass, I get ignored. At this point, I’m starting to get upset. I sent a final e-mail stating that I want a resolution by the following night or I will just take them to small claims court to resolve the problem. They admitted liability in the e-mail, and the case would be a slam dunk for me. At this point, I think they got the message.

I received the proper item to repair my towel rack. I also received a vent that’s a little big (it’s good enough), and he said he’ll find me the proper metal for my light fixture.

Needless to say, I wouldn’t refer my worst enemy to this company, please stay away.

P.S. I’m still waiting for the light fixture pieces to come.

Hi,

Boy, do I have lots of interesting things to share. Stay tuned!

Quote: “Lousy Smarch weather…”

Episode: “Treehouse Of Horror VI” (10/30/95)

Context: Spoken by a chilly Homer, looking at misprinted 13-month calendars purchased by Springfield Elementary.

Real-life uses: A fun way to bitch about the weather—particularly during an unseasonably chilly Midwestern “spring,” when every day feels like Smarch.

Seriously,

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Here’s part of the e-mail I got back. I’m not going to post the name of the person or the special phone # he gave me to call. 

“Dear Mr. Cuhaciyan:

Your inquiry was forwarded to the Sprint Executive & Regulatory Services Department, and I have been asked to address your account concerns.  Please accept my apology for any inconvenience you may have experienced.

I look forward to the opportunity to assist you.”

Once I get my account closed, and check refunded, I will consider the matter over. Let’s see if he can deliver on his word. I do appreciate that they took the opportunity to resolve the situation.

Hi.

As some of you found out the hard way, you get a disconnection message when you call my number. That’s because I canceled my Sprint account, and I hope all of you do the same, or at the very least, don’t consider them as a future cell provider.

Today, the Consumerist was nice enough to post the e-mail address of Sprint’s board of directors. Since their Customer Care department has been so incompetent in handling a simple refund of a phone, I decided to shoot them an e-mail with my story to see if they response.

All I wanted to do was send my newly purchased (broken phone) back to Sprint for a refund and to cancel my service.  Care to know more?

Here’s the e-mail I sent to the board of directors:

I order a phone, promised it would arrive within 3-4 business days, it didn’t. The order “got stuck” and took well over 1 week to ship. The phone took so long to ship, that I missed out on a $100 rebate that was supposed to come with the phone. I received the phone, whenever I clicked on SprintTV, IM, or Live Search I got a Windows Error message. On top of this, the battery would die in less than 5 hours in Standby mode.

I took the phone to an authorized Sprint Repair Center on WIllows Rd. in Redmond, WA. The technician told me all HTC Phones have those errors, and Microsoft or HTC need to make a patch to fix the problem. I bought a phone, and I can’t use half the functions on it. I told him about the battery problem, and he told me that “Sprint Corporate” purposely lie about the battery life on the website to get people to buy the phones. Needless to say, I was shocked and appalled. I became irate, and he swapped out the battery. I came home, charged it up, same result, battery died within 6 hours in Standby mode.

At this point, I was extremely upset and called a Sprint CSR to resolve the problem. I talked to a person with a smug attitude, who told me there was nothing he could do to resolve the problem. At this point, I told him to cancel my service and give me a full refund on the phone and would mail me a “return kit”.

The kit never came, and I had to call several times, talked to confused CSRs who didn’t know how the return kit was sent, or when I would get it.  After a few more calls, someone finally e-mailed me a return label.

I sent the phone back via FedEx, tracking #XXXXXXXX. Received by Sprint on 3/10/08 and signed by “Sotto”.

Now I’m told that it’s going to take about 3 months to refund my phone. Annoyed and frustrated, I was transferred to a Supervisor named “Gabe” employee ID # 136219. I was told he would take care of me, expedite the refund process, and e-mail me today with the results. Today came and went, no e-mail.

I called today and spoke to a different CSR in El Rancho, CA. Employee ID BE300943. I asked why Gabe didn’t e-mail me. He said, “we don’t do that”, then told me nothing in my account was noted about the refund, and I’d have to wait 3 months. I asked to speak to a Supervisor, and was told I could leave a voicemail, and if his Supervisor would call me “if she felt like it”.

Needless to say, this is unacceptable. As stated above, I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure no one ever goes to Sprint again. Normally, I would send this e-mail to the Customer Service Department, unfortunately, they’re unable to assist the average needs of a basic consumer.

I should have it done by tonight, hang tight.