r/belgium • u/GreyWalken • 18h ago
❓ Ask Belgium Is it just me, or is everything going downhill?
Is everything going downhill? Are these the budget cuts? Corporate stinginess?
Or am I just getting older and disappointed?
Nothing works, and everything and everyone wastes your time, energy, and money.
When I go to the store, they don't have what I need.
So then I have to go to another store or order it online.
Instead of sending it to my house or the post office, they send it to some obscure shop or place on the other side of town,
which is almost never open. So I have to play postman myself.
Things you buy are sometimes already broken when they arrive or broken after a year.
If you received a message from the government or the doctor, it used to be via letter or email.
But now they have eBox, MyFin, FartBox, the Helena ap, and who knows what else,
as if I'm going to remember and check 100 sites every day. For about a year now, they’ve only been collecting the trash every 2 weeks, and you’re limited then,
because you only have one container. So I get to play trash man myself
and take garbage bags to the recycling center.
I haven't seen the locket (human ticket counter) open at the train station in the past few years.
What are you supposed to do if you have questions?
If you want to contact a company or something, they send you to to an AI who doesn't understand you.
I could go on like this, but I think you’re tired of the nagging by now.
EDIT: I know these are small problems, and I cant really complain. But its still annoying.
Like a death by thousand cuts. It often feels like that series "the good place" Like yes I'm not starving and have a roof above my head, but I keep needing to solve problems, and society just keeps me busy with endless nonsense.
EDIT2: Thanks for the award. I have no idea how awards work tho.
