The Conspiracy Theorist

By Wreybies · Sep 8, 2009 · ·
  1. Human logic should go by another name, or logic itself should get another definition, because it seems that the only beings reportedly capable of logic observe the concept more in the breach than in any other circumstance.

    I spent half an hour with this fellah' on the phone today as he was trying to weedle out of the representative trying to help him, why in the world the electric company had chosen not to send him a bill. The customer was up in arms. He had gotten it into his head that the company must have made some sort of malicious decision to mess with him by not sending him a bill.

    I get these kinds of illogical trains of logic aaaaaaaallllllllll the time from the customers for whom I translate. Almost always, these trains of illogic have as their central point some sort of conspiracy to do random harm to clients. As if somehow random harm was in the company’s financial interest to perpetrate. I understand how well planned harm might be lucrative, but random harm?

    What happens to people to make them go down the Conspiracy Theory path? What makes a person believe that it is significantly more probable that the electric company just wanted to mess with him by not sending him a bill rather than the idea that the bill simply didn’t make it through the vast cavernous maw that is the USPS?

    I…*sigh*

    I just…

    I mean, really…

    *deep breath*

    I just don’t get it.

Comments

  1. Xeno
    "What happens to people to make them go down the Conspiracy Theory path?"

    To make someone a conspiracy theorist, they probably have another person who tries to convince them that the only to get to the top in life is to outsmart everyone else, so they naturally assume that everyone else is also trying to outwit them, and thus, Conspiracy Theory Man is born!

    We must get lessons from Vulcans. :)
  2. marina
    Sounds like this is the new "my dog ate my homework."

    His bill is unpaid. The business calls him on it. He uses the "your business never sent me the bill!"
  3. CDRW
    It's hard to feel justified about staying angry at someone for making an honest mistake, and only the truly angry have the drive to penetrate the red tape.

    They assume that the company is out to get them because the company WILL do everything it can to screw over the customer if it saves or earns them a couple bucks, and they figure that the company has found a way to make money off random harm. If a film company can make money off of having their own film fail, then why not that?
  4. Rumpole40k
    It would be wrong to tell these masters of illogic, "Well now you did it. The red light is flashing. Look, just go with the guys from the black helicopters and you might get a cell with a window." ... right?
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