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What made me unhappy today ?
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I wasn't sufficiently caffeinated when I went to the DMV this morning. It was a frustrating experience and I am feeling snarly. Off to reheat this morning's coffee in hopes of improving my mood.
Ran out of coffee creamer? Thats fine. Lemme just use this heavy whipping cream that has been sitting in the fridge for an undisclosed amount of time. Smells normal, no chunks.
What the worst that could happen?
Please don't. I once used milk that smelled normal, only a day over the "best by" date, and I had stomach-aches for several days, so bad I felt like my stomach was tied up in knots.
Take care of yourself!
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Work was hella stressful today. I'm still waiting for some processes to finish. Bank holidays are nice, but the day after is hellish.
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Let the record reflect that I absolutely hate customer service telephone trees. Even though I ultimately got what I wanted, I had to share my data with several underpaid overworked people until I got the simple answer. Further affiant sayeth not.
Agreed 100%, Graham. Everything about that process is hateful, though, from the so-called "simple menus" you have to navigate to the hold music that follows.
I work in accounting, and a major part of my job is bank reconciliation (i.e. reconciling the payments we receive against the bills we send people). Sometimes (read: quite often), people pay us money without telling us who they are or what they're paying for, which is silly. You may as well throw your money down the toilet. ;-P And then I have to call the bank and ... Zarquon save us.
*overly cheerful tone* "HI!!! WELCOME TO THE BANK!!!"
Ad after ad after ad for all the bank's services, including their oh-so-wonderful AI assistant, blah blah blah, and I can't skip any of them, and the hold music goes on and on and on, often for 30 minutes or more. *headdesk* All because some yoyo ... some moron ... some schmuck thought "Oooooh dear, I couldn't possibly share any information with the clerk who's going to allocate my money to my invoices!" and so didn't.
Sorry to rant. People like this are the bane of my professional existence.
It didn't use to happen too often, but I've noticed this more and more in the past few weeks.
Maybe I need to go out and perform a brain transplant on some of them. With a shovel. ;-P
I work in accounting, and a major part of my job is bank reconciliation (i.e. reconciling the payments we receive against the bills we send people). Sometimes (read: quite often), people pay us money without telling us who they are or what they're paying for, which is silly. You may as well throw your money down the toilet. ;-P And then I have to call the bank and ... Zarquon save us.
*overly cheerful tone* "HI!!! WELCOME TO THE BANK!!!"
Ad after ad after ad for all the bank's services, including their oh-so-wonderful AI assistant, blah blah blah, and I can't skip any of them, and the hold music goes on and on and on, often for 30 minutes or more. *headdesk* All because some yoyo ... some moron ... some schmuck thought "Oooooh dear, I couldn't possibly share any information with the clerk who's going to allocate my money to my invoices!" and so didn't.
Sorry to rant. People like this are the bane of my professional existence.
It didn't use to happen too often, but I've noticed this more and more in the past few weeks.Maybe I need to go out and perform a brain transplant on some of them. With a shovel. ;-P
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I'm not in the account department, but a place I used to work for handled it thus:Agreed 100%, Graham. Everything about that process is hateful, though, from the so-called "simple menus" you have to navigate to the hold music that follows.
I work in accounting, and a major part of my job is bank reconciliation (i.e. reconciling the payments we receive against the bills we send people). Sometimes (read: quite often), people pay us money without telling us who they are or what they're paying for, which is silly. You may as well throw your money down the toilet. ;-P And then I have to call the bank and ... Zarquon save us.
*overly cheerful tone* "HI!!! WELCOME TO THE BANK!!!"
Ad after ad after ad for all the bank's services, including their oh-so-wonderful AI assistant, blah blah blah, and I can't skip any of them, and the hold music goes on and on and on, often for 30 minutes or more. *headdesk* All because some yoyo ... some moron ... some schmuck thought "Oooooh dear, I couldn't possibly share any information with the clerk who's going to allocate my money to my invoices!" and so didn't.
Sorry to rant. People like this are the bane of my professional existence.
Maybe I need to go out and perform a brain transplant on some of them. With a shovel. ;-P
Let any unidentified moneys remain unallocated.
Let the overdue notices go out to customers who haven't had payments allocated.
When the customer rings to complain that they have paid, get them to tell you the payment details, identify and allocate the payment.
"Oh, and in future, if you put your account number on the payment we can avoid this confusion. Thank you have a nice day."
All of which are obviated by some form of payment portal, QB invoices, or something like that.
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Most of our customers were on direct debit, which was our preference. There are always a few holdouts though, who want to pay by bank transfer or cash at the post office or something else arcane.
Maybe they wanted to take the horse and buggy out for a spin to the post office.
(Sits in her buggy, checkbook in hand, looking puzzled and wondering why aspersions are being cast.)
If affiant made it through that mess without muttering imprecations under his breath, his forebearance deserves sincere admiration. I played the telephone game trying to cancel service with an internet provider. When I finally got the answer to the single simple question I had, I trundled down to the local store to return the equipment. The nice young man at the counter asked why I was cancelling. I told him too many outages, the latest being most of a day on the previous weekend, and "no shade on you, but customer service sucks." He and his coworker nodded sympathetically, and he said, "Yeah, we hear that a lot."
If affiant made it through that mess without muttering imprecations under his breath, his forebearance deserves sincere admiration. I played the telephone game trying to cancel service with an internet provider. When I finally got the answer to the single simple question I had, I trundled down to the local store to return the equipment. The nice young man at the counter asked why I was cancelling. I told him too many outages, the latest being most of a day on the previous weekend, and "no shade on you, but customer service sucks." He and his coworker nodded sympathetically, and he said, "Yeah, we hear that a lot."
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Ohhhhhh, kind of a personal station at the drive-up section of the bank, is it? Sucks the little container up the tube and delivers it to the teller? I tie my horse out front and go inside the bank. Don't trust those modern contraptions. If one got too close, they might suck face.
Accidently poked myself in the eye. Not happy...
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I haven't watched Iron Lung yet (the movie with Markiplier) so I decided to go ahead and play the game. Not a good idea, especially for one that has a really big fear -- Thalassophobia. I hate that game so much now, but I still play it anyway. And I'm going to watch the movie. Maybe not the best idea for my night-life (ahem, lots on nightmares already).
So I guess Megashark Vs. Giant Octopus isn't your kind of thing?
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Please follow up with your thoughts. I played the game too, and from the trailer the set at least looks quite faithful. I'm not opposed to a one-man show.
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Still might actually, non-jokingly crap my pants (I've done it before with Subnautica).
Absolutely not. Jaws, The Meg, Underwater, yeah, can't do any of em. Nope. Nada. Get em out of my face.
But Iron Lung is the ONE I will make an exception for, the game and the movie. But I love horror, so... We'll see what happens.
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