>>2830239
(Translated from the German/Schwiitzertütsch)
>Be me
>In Switzerland, at a DHL service counter in a supermarket
>Hi, I’m returning this, it’s postage paid, here’s the label and description, but I don’t have the sticky plastic pocket to put the forms in… do you have one?
>WHERE’S THE CUSTOMS FORM?
>Um, here’s the DHL returns paperwork the company included, there’s a detailed description of the items in that field there…
>(With rising anger and palpable disgust) NO, I NEED THE CUSTOMS FORM AND OFFICIAL PRO FORMA INVOICE. THEY PROBABLY SENT IT TO YOU AND YOU FORGOT TO PRINT IT OUT [ARSCHLOCH].
>Oh, okay. If I go get that, do you have the sticky envelope I was asking for?
>NEI.

Anyone who thinks Switzerland is paradise has never experienced the country’s scolding-based approach to customer service.

>>2830239
lmao same shit in kenya, I've had guys pick me up and they say they know where a place is, and 15-20 minutes deep I will realize they have no idea where they are going, then when I ask them what they are doing they ask ME, the visiting tourist, for directions

>>2830260
This reminds me of government customer service in The Netherlands which has a kind of sneering tone leading to faux laugh

>be any European country
>90% of water in stores is sparkling, it's barely even labeled as such, and is basically the default
Genuinely how do people tolerate this shit? Drinking it is fucking torture and not remotely refreshing

>>2830239
>driving through Montana plains around 11pm
>pop tire
>no idea where I can crash and by a new one in the morning
>definitely, definitely not crossing the Rockies without a proper tire
>call AAA they don't know where I am
>takes a while for them to figure it out
>they don't know where I can get a bed for the night and a tire in the morning
>they're asking me like I know jack shit about their area
>find a place myself on google maps that mentions tires and has a motel nearby
>they take me there
>sleep
>tire place isn't open
>they don't even do automotive tires, they do trailer, mower, and other less usual tires
>they thankfully lend me chocks and a jack
>backtrack an hour to Missoula to get a tire
I thought AAA would know their own neck of the woods enough to help out a lost idiot, but apparently the ones South of Flathead Lake can't.

>>2830267
How else are they going to justify charging 4€ for not even a full glass's worth?

>>2830263
They will drive in a straight line out of city limits if you don't tell them when to turn left and right. Obviously an online map is just uniformly beyond a 65 IQ intellect

>>2830239
You have to instruct the driver as you go along. You want him paying attention to the road and not distracted by staring at a phone's navigation app trying to figure out which of the ten nameless alleys on the left he is supposed to turn down. Directions in the Third World can look fluid and sensible on the street, but on a map they can be damn near untraceable. Or vice versa. When all the traffic veers left at a 45 degree angle and you're supposed to go straight, but you're on the left side of the road. There's so many different kinds of ways a map can trick your eyes.

Riding on the back of a motorbike, you can signal turns and stops to the driver with your arm.

>>2830263
This is a way to charge you an inflated price by deliberately getting lost and extending the drive. Or maybe they enjoy parading a whitey around the city on the back of their motorbike, kek
>>2830267
Pour it into a room glass. Surely your room isn't so poor that it doesn't have any room glasses? Then you place your bottle in the RECYCLING bin. You don't throw it on the roadside or leave it on the ground next to a bench.

>>2830265
Yeah, the Swiss Germans are up there with the Dutch contending for the title of “Most Unpleasant Germanics.” The Swiss are nicer about language than the Dutch, though—they can occasionally say nice things about/to a foreigner speaking Swiss German, but every expat I have ever known to live in the Swamp (and I know many) has said that Netherlanders can barely stand aliens trying to speak Dutch.

>>2830274
lol, why would a company have any knowledge? that comes at a premium when hiring.
just ensure your 'valued customer' is all paid up, then let the goodgoy on the phone follow the script

>>2830267
Nobody in Finland buys water from stores. Sparkling water is just alternative for sodas. You just drink water from any tap that is cleaner than even the bottled water in the US.

>>2830542
>why would a company have any knowledge?
Are you foreign? Do you not know what AAA is?

>>2830553
The AAA exists to help corporate interests, not the average man. Local, practical knowledge is absolutely antithetical to American MBA management culture.
It's far cheaper for corporate sponsors to man organisations with 'not locals' who follow scripts and use SAAS.

>>2830558
>Yes, I am foreign.
ok

>>2830267
>be any European country
>90% of water in stores is sparkling,

Sparkling water is much more popular in some parts of Europe than others—the Germanics love it, but among the Italians, Greeks, French, and Spanish, among others, it’s well under 50% of what people drink.

>it's barely even labeled as such, and is basically the default

It’s always clearly labeled as such (frizzante/con gas/pétillante/mit Kohlensäure/Sprudelwasser, etc.; still water is mostly labeled as something cognate with “natural” or “still”), you just don’t know any of the relevant languages or aren’t paying attention.

And you can always drink tap water, including from public drinking fountains in a lot of countries.

>>2830359
>This is a way to charge you an inflated price by deliberately getting lost and extending the drive.
you'd think that but they might just be that stupid