{"id":677127,"date":"2010-02-26T17:17:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T22:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002653"},"modified":"2010-02-27T02:04:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T07:04:09","slug":"ask-the-consumerists-how-do-you-stay-calm-when-youre-being-wronged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/677127","title":{"rendered":"Ask The Consumerists: How Do You Stay Calm When You&#8217;re Being Wronged?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/4369376730_7eaf33ef55_m-thumb-240x240-37524.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Stacey has an interesting question for the Consumerist hive mind. She wonders: when you are in the middle of a grave consumer injustice, how do you stay calm? How do you hold on to your temper and stay professional, whether on the phone or dealing with a company in person?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have read enumerable stories of consumers facing completely<br \/>\nridiculous, unethical, and even unconscionable issues.  When consumers<br \/>\nget upset, they are often reprimanded by the readership for not being<br \/>\nprofessional &#8211; but as a very emotional person and someone who feels<br \/>\ngreat injustices should hold the responsible party responsible, how do<br \/>\nI hold my temper?  I&#8217;m pretty good at not taking the problem out on<br \/>\nthe representatives on the phone, unless the person cannot or is<br \/>\nunwilling to solve the problem.  But when the company is clearly<br \/>\nuninterested in the law or the right thing, how to keep from verbally<br \/>\nreleasing your frustrations?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Any advice for Stacey?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stacey has an interesting question for the Consumerist hive mind. She wonders: when you are in the middle of a grave consumer injustice, how do you stay calm? How do you hold on to your temper and stay professional, whether on the phone or dealing with a company in person? I have read enumerable stories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Q9p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}