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'Time for them to go out of business': TikToker regularly texts deceased sister. Then a business 'coldly' responds
'At least I got to see her name pop up on my phone one last time.'
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Grieving woman regularly texts her dead sister, receives "cold" response from business
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Not the businesses fault really but I do feel bad for her. Trying to find a way to cope with a loss like that can be difficult. People urging her to go after this business are ridiculous though. Nobody there had anyway of knowing her situation.
If the sister died like 2 weeks ago and the number was given to a businesses that acted coldly I'd get it. 2 years on not to say the living sister can't still grieve the loss, but I don't think the business needs to be sympathetic to her.
On one hand after her explanation they could have dealt with it with more sympathy, on the other hand she is lucky it remained out of service so long and it is kind of crazy to think the number would never go out again. Final Judgement nothing to see here, neither did anything wrong but the business if they hadn't just been heartless is actually more understandable to me.
Like. The business isn't "wrong" here, and no one should be mobbing them, but whoever responded on its behalf is a grade-A asshole. If a grieving family member inadvertently texts your business and your response after a full explanation is a straight "this is a business. Stop texting," you can kind of get fucked.
internet would probably react better if the responses received were something like I'm heartbroken to hear that. I think I read a similar story before years ago but the person that time responded much more favorably.
if the mob does find out what this business is oh well lol 😂
if the mob does find out what this business is oh well lol 😂
Very sad for the person in question, and whoever messaged back should have been more sensitive in their response after her apology. I understand the feeling and loss of connection this person is going through, as I lost my sister a couple of years back, and for a time I often went back over our messages, although I never added to them. A pity the number was reassigned, but they always are.
Fucking people have nothing better to do nowadays it seems. Like, use your energy for something more productive and worthwhile, twitter losers.
Second response wasn't great, but probably not worth exposing over. Surprised the business didn't just block the number and move on
The second response was definitely shitty and unnecessary, but, expose and destroy the business? Come on now.
How about focusing that energy into something constructive instead.
It would have been great if after learning about the sister thing, the business would have replied in a kind and sympathetic way. At the same time.. .wrong number or spamy bullshit texts also come across the same way so its easy to reply to any strange text in at best a "cold" way.
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If that's where it had ended, that would have been fine. They could have just NOT responded to the "sorry" message and been done with it. They went out of their way to be an asshole about it.
What is wrong with people that they want to destroy some business over a pretty harmless text for a wrong number essentially?
I came into this thread expecting the business to try and profit from her sisters death or just saying something incredibly distasteful. This is literally nothing.
I came into this thread expecting the business to try and profit from her sisters death or just saying something incredibly distasteful. This is literally nothing.
I can't understand why this is even newsworthy. Social media has made things so fucking weird. Feels sometimes like it exists to get people to pick sides in things that don't concern them. I can't imagine giving any sort of shit about this.
You are literally advocating for a harassment campaign against innocent people.
What the hell is wrong with you?
The business really is stupid and the person who responded an absolute inhumane idiot, considering you can just block the number and never see it ever again. There was no need to respond, and the way they responded deserve some shame considering the woman said she wasn't going to text again.
But all they're guilty of here is being a dick showing no sympathy on a text message about saying a number was no longer in use. No need to go all twitter mob on them.
But all they're guilty of here is being a dick showing no sympathy on a text message about saying a number was no longer in use. No need to go all twitter mob on them.
No, not dramatic. That is what you did.
Feel free to reply to the numerous other people who quoted you, by the way.
It definitely was a very poor way of handling it but I don't think there needs to be a campaign against them.
Surprised by a lot of the responses here considering how texting or leaving voicemails to the deceased is a very commonplace way of dealing with loss. The business was not wrong to tell her the number had been reissued but the coldness of the replies is really antisocial.
Of course this does not warrant any sort of retaliation, let alone from a mob of internet soldiers, but I think the replies from the business are very cruel.
Of course this does not warrant any sort of retaliation, let alone from a mob of internet soldiers, but I think the replies from the business are very cruel.
The business could have just blocked the woman's number so she could continue.
takes two seconds to block. i'm not even sure why people go the extra step to respond in any other way aside from informing.
The woman is obviously grieving and it's hard, but imagine you get a brand new phone and you're getting texted everyday by someone in this matter
The woman is obviously grieving and it's hard, but imagine you get a brand new phone and you're getting texted everyday by someone in this matter
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