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06/25/2008 11:20:03 AM · #1 |
I get to work today, and somewhere around an hour and a half in, I pop up the internet browser, which I have set to start at Google as my home page. I get a full page nag screen that says basically "everything you do is being monitored, you have no rights to privacy when it comes to using the internet." Yeah, I know that. Cool. No problem. There's a little button at the bottom that says "I agree - continue". Click that, get Google. Click on favorites to go to CNN's home page (a little thing I like to do from time to time is see just how sucky the world really is - CNN never lets me down). Same full page nag screen. Click continue. Go to favorites and click on dpchallenge. Full page nag screen pops up, and all the pictures are blocked. Bah! Bah again! Bleh. Click on a forum link. Full page nag screen shows up again. Click on "My profile" - full page nag screen, and all my pictures and gifs are blocked.
Had to happen sooner or later. By the way, the nag screen shows up on every link on CNN to stories, too.
So there's that, then. About a month ago, I told my financial institution they could take X amount out of savings to invest in several instruments. They took twice that amount. I called, they said they'd look into it. I left on a business trip, came back two and a half weeks later, still not fixed. In the mean time, about 5% of my savings had disappeared due to market changes. Woo hoo! Called again - they said they'd fix it, and they more or less have in the past week. Fine. Today I get a letter from my financial institution - "Dear Savings Customer" it says, and proceeds to tell me that I have exceeded my FEDERALLY ALLOWABLE removals from my savings account in a one-month period. My FEDERALLY ALLOWABLE? It's my freakin' savings account! So now I'm subject to a fine for that.
And I lost the one (1) pen that's not red ink that I had on my desk at work. We have no supply closet at work. Time to rummage through the kitchen drawers for more pens to take in. We also supply our own paper and such. Times are good, yes?
And that's my rant for today.
Edited because cat was helping me type.
Message edited by author 2008-06-25 11:20:33. |
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06/25/2008 11:24:00 AM · #2 |
Wow, Deb. You work for the Gov't!?!?!?! What a pain in the ass. Bringing your own pens? Sheeeesh!
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06/25/2008 11:28:47 AM · #3 |
| Somewhere in Germany, a cat has invested in fish companies, signed off the forms with a black pen, and blocked internet access to cover the trail... |
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06/25/2008 11:32:19 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
Somewhere in Germany, a cat has invested in fish companies, signed off the forms with a black pen, and blocked internet access to cover the trail... |
LOL! That's probably true. Oh, and I should add that we do get printer paper and ink cartridges. So there's that benefit and feature. Just hard to come by pens and those novel things like tablets, where people write stuff by hand. Archaic, but a practice I still enjoy from time to time.
Message edited by author 2008-06-25 11:33:23. |
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06/25/2008 11:52:14 AM · #5 |
LOL! When I used to work for an internet company they flat out told us they were a technology company and refused to buy tablets and pens.
The savings snafu, should you receive a fine, should be paid by the company that took the money, since it was their mistake. If you threaten to remove all your money and put it elsewhere it should quell any arguments. |
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07/03/2008 09:28:01 AM · #6 |
Problem with institutions like this is when they make a mistake, nobody will take ownership of the problem, and you get treated with the default rule set for their error. They are unlikely to give you your money back even though they caused it. The best one can expect is to get back the original amount of the error, and that is after you cause them some grief.
I had a traffic ticket one time. Every time I turned around they slapped me with another fee or fine. I called the courthouse of the small speed-trap town it was in. Asked them what the TOTAL was that I needed to pay them, including ALL fees, fines and other costs to put it behind me. They gave me a figure, and I sent it in. Wrote down the day, time and name of the person who told me this. 6 months later I get a phone call on a Sunday afternoon from a police officer with a warrant for my arrest because some $10 fee was showing as unpaid. Of course, it is pointless to debate with the cop, so I called and spoke to the judge, explaining my efforts to do right and who told me what and when. They voided the $10 fee, but made me pay a $50 warrant fee! It was their fault they did not get all their money in the first place! At this point one has no recourse. It was a minor thing in the grand scheme, but it still burns me that they could do this when I made maximum effort to do the right thing and put it behind me. |
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