I don’t get it. Is someone trying to force you to sell? On what grounds?
Mine:
The in-laws had AT&T phone and internet. We paid the last 2 bills, including one for the period where we cancelled the service 3 days into the billing period. Since we did not have the prorated figure, we paid the whole amount.
I finally called them yesterday (this was 6 weeks ago) about the refund, since the website was confusing as hell and seemed to suggest that they had billed us for some of the FOLLOWING month. Nope… a refund check was mailed earlier this week.
A check. (we paid by credit card, online). Mailed to their home address. Where they no longer live. Silly me for assuming it would be refunded by the same method by which it was paid.
Hopefully it does get forwarded to my sister-in-law. Of course the check will be made out to my father-in-law, who, well, isn’t going to be cashing any checks. Hopefully SIL can deposit it in MIL’s account. It’s a tad annoying, since it’s OUR money, though really I don’t begrudge MIL 92 bucks.
My other rant: OneDrive.
Our client has started using that, and we are required to use that for all files. It’s a dandy idea… except when it refuses to sync a file, you don’t realize it, and suddenly you’re using an older version because the newest is “Filename…lots-of-gobbledygook.doc” or whatever. I locked my database account once because of that, and nearly did it again today. Oh, and I’m the person you go to when your account is locked out - I’m a DBA. Luckily, the time it happened, the other DBA was reachable.
Fortunately, I took a nap after the A/C guys left because oh boy oh boy. The plumber texted that I would have to put a new water heater in a different part of the attic to pass inspection. I texted back asking if he would be willing to do the work that would entail and he hasn’t answered back yet. Ok. It’s only been 20 minutes. I’m guessing he’s weighing his options. My chill attitude has evaporated.
If she has a bank app on her phone, she should be able to deposit it into her account. Pretty sure there is nothing on those that checks the “Pay to” line. And then transfer it to either you or MIL.
A new Supervisor was hired for our A/R team last June. In short order, she showed herself as uninterested in learning our processes, understanding the team’s dynamics, or interacting with us in a professional manner. We raised red flags galore to our manager, who responded with, “Give her time, look how long it took just to hire her.”
A year later, and things hadn’t improved; if anything, her disinterest in working with us became even more apparent. Two weeks ago, we were informed that she had been let go.
Yesterday, our manager revealed that the hiring process for a new Supervisor had begun.
For God’s sake, they HAD to know this was coming! Why couldn’t they have posted the position sooner? Why did they keep someone in that position who clearly had far, far different priorities than leading a team? GRAHR!
Could be. I know you can endorse a check with “Jane Doe, pay to the order of John Doe” or something like that. I once had to do that when a student staying with us received a check as an honorarium for helping out at an event; not having a US bank account, she had no way to cash it, so we went to my bank and handled it that way.
I imagine that if the sender, or the intended recipient, complained, there could be trouble if the check got deposited to someone else’s account.
I’m not terribly worried about 90 bucks; it’ll go toward MIL’s care one way or another. Just peeved at AT&T for not handling the refund in a smoother matter - I mean, if someone is cancelling service, there’s a fairly good chance it’s because they are moving!
(checks privilege)
(OK, I get to work from home, so there’s that)
(but):
I am getting seriously tired of people who don’t know how to behave on-camera during Zoom calls. I’ve seen work-from-home things involving pajamas and bathrobes that are just short of indecent exposure, too many to detail here, so I’ll focus on something else: STOP MOVING AROUND AND DOING WEIRD SHIT. There’s the guy who takes every single meeting on a walking treadmill – his fitness is to be admired (which I think is why he does it, for the admiration) but the constant shoulder motion is really distracting. There’s of course the ubiquitous person who eats and chews and eats and chews and slurps and eats and chews. The person who jumps up and sits back down EVERY ONE MINUTE, and no, they do not have kids. The person who puts her hair up, then takes it down, then puts it up, then takes it down, unceasingly for a full hour.
I am once again thankful that my workplace has never gone for video meetings; we’re audio only. Hell, my primary work computer doesn’t even have a webcam, as far as I know (or if it does, it’s disabled). So while I have been known to take meetings in unprofessional attire, nobody knows. And if someone does make noise, most of the tools we use (Webex, Teams, Google Meet) allow others to mute the offender.
While this is true, it’s also kind of old-fashioned. These days, it’s easier to electronically deposit the check and count on the fact that neither the bank nor AT&T are going to sweat details like “payee” if the amounts match, particularly if the payee’s surname is the same.
Today’s mini-rant is for people on crowded trains who wear huge backpacks, don’t remove them while standing in the aisles (no seats left, see)… and forget that their “body” now extends about a foot further back than it usually does, meaning that any small amount of personal space I can claw out is filled with some happily oblivious person’s rucksack.
It’s harassment: I’m older and they ( whoever the hell they are ) are trying to pull in as many younger couples with kids… like-thinking people… from NYC as they can. I’m older, my kids are grown, I’m not Republican, and I’ve grown to know that our local Boy Scout leaders are as fascist as they come. One Scout Leader (neighbor) had the balls to ask me when I was moving. I told him that the open house would be the day after his wake.
(They are the same ‘Scouting family’ who homeschooled their kids, taught them to read… and then the Boy Scout manual and the Bible as their sole reading material. The mother was always sending them around the neighborhood canvassing for odd jobs for cash and if that family ever paid a dollar in taxes I’d be surprised. The mother was a real Madame Defarge about gossip and what was going on in other families too.)
The new people prefer to go the street theater route: All my life I’ve suffered from bad sinuses and often I have to clear my nose just to breathe. They like to walk by our house and use huge pantomime gestures to mock pick their noses. Also when walking by, pushing their strollers by, or driving by they’ll throw used Kleenex tissues out in front of my house which I have to then clean up. I’ve had rotten fruit thrown into my back yard too.
If you have a change to watch the documentary series Shiny Happy People (available for free on Prime Video), it really shows the dark side to that fundamentalist homeschool set. Here’s an article about the series:
While we’re on the subject of meetings… where I work, we’ve been encouraging the use of the Outlook feature that automatically shortens 30 min meetings by five minutes and hour-long ones by ten minutes. The idea is that we all get some time between calls to grab a drink, use the bathroom, whatever.
One of our project managers has taken to squeezing micro-meetings in those gaps.
Every year if you receive federal funds you have to register/update through the Systems for Award Management (SAM.) Every year it’s some administrative bullshit.
This year the address on file said STE 101 for no reason that I can comprehend, so to change it to the correct address (which is absolutely critical) I had to submit the required documentation for them to change the address. Problem is, for reasons I also don’t understand, the information on our tax forms is incorrect. They say “Rd” instead of “Dr.” So I’m trying to keep it DR but I have to submit documents saying it’s “RD.” I wondered what SAM would do.
What I did NOT expect them to do was create a whole new Entity with the incorrect fucking address with NO notice whatsoever. Holy fucking shit. We need to remain this specific entity not be an entirely new Entity. I’m not even sure what to do now, but I guess I’m going to have to call them.
We’ve been receiving tax assessments for our private vehicle for years! The government thinks it’s a commercial vehicle for some reason. We don’t own a business, and never have. I have called in the past, and they said to just write across the statement in big letters - NOT A BUSINESS VEHICLE and send it back. It hasn’t worked - they still send the stupid statements for hundreds of dollars!
I called again. This time the unpleasant lady with the undecipherable accent told me to download some forms to fill out. Neither one of us can figure out what the hell to put on the forms.
I have obtained a referral to a tax attorney thru my company just to get them to STOP. Jesus H Christ.
A lot of companies have a reference policy where all they will say is “x worked here from date 1 to date 2, final salary was xx” or some such - as such a reference as you were giving could well be used in a lawsuit.
A few years back, my husband had a colleague who was not perfect, but better than nothing. He left, suddenly, having found a new position. As in, walked out early one week when he had given notice, and was expected to work the rest of that week. He just quit showing up. My husband was one of the people who had to pick up the pieces.
Supposedly, one of the senior managers on the project knew where the person was planning to go when he walked out, and claimed he was going to call that employer and put the kibosh on the fellow being hired. No clue whether he actually did so (pretty rotten thing to do, no matter how much of a screwup the fellow was).
But a few months later, my husband got a call from an employer, looking for a reference. He simply never returned the call.