Are you people related to me? If you are, I probably forgot. Maybe I should write that down…somewhere?
I’ll write it down, I’ll even remember where I put the note. I just won’t be able to read my own handwriting… Hieroglyphs, I tell you.
Nice to know I’m not the only one who has trouble reading my own handwriting at times.
I just had this happen to me. I stood in the aisle at Trader Joe’s (careful to be where I wasn’t blocking traffic) trying to decipher what one of the items on my shopping list meant.
Having just given sage rat crap in another thread for calling McD’s “dumps” with bad service. I have found a certain Checkers around here has the worst customer service. I try to be very nice and polite to customer service; it’s a thankless, dreary job quite often. Twice now I’ve gone to this Checkers - said sincere please and thank you, and the service person both times did not even acknowledge me. I mean, it didn’t hurt my feelings. or ruin my day, and I didn’t have the overwhelming urge to CALL CORPORATE the threat of entitled customers everywhere, but I was a bit surprised. I mean, I hate my job a lot. I’d rather grunt stocking cooler all day than stand on till and make nice, but I never act like that.
The folks running account security at Facebook are the Platonic ideal of morons. So, I go on vacation. To South Korea. I access Facebook while there. Then I return to China and because it’s China, I must use a VPN to access Facebook again. Mind you, this is the same VPN setting I’ve been using for almost ten years. I’ve been back from Korea four days now. I’ve been accessing Facebook the entire time. Until this morning. This morning, I log into Facebook and get told they suspect my account has been hacked. Then they roll into the verification process. What a joy that was. I finally get through it. Let’s see. We’re in, what, the 19th Century, right? That must be where the account security people have their heads. I have to wait 48 hours for them to decide that my traveling was traveling.
Oh, wait. My calendar tells me we’re actually in the 21st Century. That means people travel, and some of those people travel from one country to another for such lofty purposes as vacations or even work. One would think by now a company that exists solely because the Internet exists would be aware of things like that.
In case you’re wondering why I’m sure I wasn’t actually hacked, it’s because I got an automatic E-mail a day ago saying they’ve detected I logged into my account from a different country than I usually do. And that E-mail specifically said if that was, in fact, me logging into the account, I don’t need to do anything!
Incompetents.
Checkers has a thing where they pay their employees the same day they work. It attracts people who are very much on the margins of society; your attendant may be living in their car or at some level of impairment. Don’t take it personally.
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So, just a few weeks ago I get word that another client died. That’s two in just about a month! This was a clear suicide; he was a cop who lost his job after making threats towards his girlfriend. His mom was unemotional when she told me; perhaps it was shock, but she didn’t seem surprised.
They posted my job online today. It’s officially open for people to apply to. And they are paying more for it. I also heard that they would be hiring another person for the department I worked in. For whatever reason, that really hurt to hear. Maybe it was because I just had to spend $275 on medicine for my daughter when I have no job and they were hiring two people to replace me at higher rates than they were willing to pay me. I really hope I find a new job soon.
You should apply. It’s sort of a roundabout way of getting a raise, though.
What do you kow? It only took around three hours for Facebook to show me they don’t know how to read a passport. Let’s see if they can grok a China visa (visa was one option).
I would suggest that you apply for your state’s version of Medical. Do it tonight, I am sure there is an online portal. If accepted, your coverage will start from the first day of the month that you applied which means you can be reimbursed for your daughter’s meds. Apply for food stamps while you are at it, if you have no income you are probably eligible.
Do not be embarrassed about asking for help. Nobody should be without medical insurance. Your food stamps will be loaded onto a card that you use just like any other card in your wallet.
And FB’s rejections are getting quicker. Sheesh.
Success! Seriously, FB; why can’t y’all join this century?
Yeah, they suck. You deserve so much better! Keeping my fingers crossed, for whatever good that’ll do!
I go out of my way to make my shopping lists obscure. A recent list had, “What am I…?”, “Doctor repellent”, and “Not Mary Anne”.
I purchased chicken livers, apples, and ginger.
A local fast food joint (I think Burger King, but maybe not (Checkers flamed out around here years ago)) recently had a ‘work today, paid today’ sign (possibly paid tomorrow).
I dealt with 3 shitty online systems in one day.
- Grants.gov. I filled out the forms and submitted. One of the forms (EPA 4700-4) did not auto-populate certain fields as it said it would, and did not generate a fill and sign pdf. The reviewers couldn’t sign the document and needed me to fix it. Me? It’s your system, you fix it! Nope. I eventually found on EPA’s website a fillable/signable version which I refilled out and sent back to them.
- Ohio DNR says I have to renew my boat license. You can do it online. Except the form insists I’m trying to renew for the previous 3 years and won’t let me change the date. I guess I’ll send a check in the mail.
- Ohio DNR says it’s time to renew my dock license. You can do it online. Except no web address is listed. I tried the ODNR website and the one for the lake but there is no option for boat docks. I guess that will also be sent in the mail.
It’s barely possible I’ve ranted about this before 
, but I detest veterinary practices’ habit of throwing up roadblocks to clients who don’t want to pay their grossly inflated prices for routine pet medications.
Nexguard and Heartguard have been effective and safe chewables for Pluto the spaniel for years, eliminating flea and tick problems and preventing heartworm infestation. Nexguard is expensive, more so as his vet tacks on at least a 50% upcharge if you buy it there. I needed to take him in for a checkup and vaccines anyway, and was able to get the vet to write a new prescription with enough refills for a year, a minor miracle.
However, the front desk employees didn’t follow through on a promise to call the online pet meds company to approve an order, denied having a current prescription on file, and when called on that, claimed they hadn’t received a fax from the company requesting prescription authorization. This is looking like deliberate obstruction.
I realize vets think they need to make extra $$ by selling drugs at a big markup, but this gets to be an abusive practice.
I visit Chewy’s website, enter the product I want, pick my veterinarian’s name from a list, then Chewy takes it from there, contacting the veterinary office for approval.
My vet has made sure to include a pop-up disclaimer that I need to mail in the prescription to Chewy.