I hate how simple things like calling to activate a replacement credit card always turn into aggravation because instead of just letting me key a few numbers on the phone, they have to transfer me to a live person for an annoying sales pitch for a protection plan or some other useless program designed to get a few bucks from me every month. And rather than heed my "No, I'm not interested in anything else today," up front, the guy still runs through his script ending with the always passive-aggressive "So let's just go ahead and get you signed up for this, mm-kay?" at which point I have to get bitchy about what part of "no" was misunderstood.
And why can't I get a live person on the line within 10 seconds of dialing when I actually WANT something?
Good idea: Set up online filing for city income tax returns.
Bad idea: Let someone who obviously can't do simple spreadsheet math create the code that performs all the calculations.
City of Euclid, once again you FAIL. Have fun sorting out the mess created by all the people who blindly use the online filing. It's back to pen and paper for me... unless I can format my Excel sheet just right to print the numbers on the form.
City of Euclid has discontinued curbside recycling AGAIN. It was cut by the previous mayor, then started back up after the new mayor took office in 2008, as per one of his campaign promises. After a little more than a year, the city council is saying they're losing money on the program. To which I say back, you're obviously doing it wrong. The same trucks that pick up trash were collecting the bags of recyclables, so I just can't figure out where they're spending more money than they make.
So now I need to find out if there's other options for disposing of bottles, cans, plastic, and newspapers. That makes up more than half of the household waste, and I refuse to just contribute to adding more crap to landfill.
That's my call after spending two hours in the car and only getting about halfway to work. If I have to use a vacation day for it instead of a sick day, so be it. But when I called from my car at 9:30 am (I'd left home at 7:30 am), only about half the staff had made it in yet. And since it was still snowing, I was also beginning to wonder if I'd get stuck downtown at the end of the day even if I managed to make it all the way there.
The weather folks had only been forecasting since Monday that a winter storm would arrive last night and last through today. So naturally, the City of Cleveland and ODOT were taken COMPLETELY by surprise. The only plow I saw running in my two hour trip to nowhere belonged to someone in a little Jeep who was playing at being helpful in the left lane.
OMFG I am sick of hearing about the Caylee Anthony stuff. I swear, certain people in my family are more obsessed with this murder non-mystery than they were with the O.J. Simpson stuff back in the 90s. I've gotten to hear a third-hand account of every idiot psychic, bounty hunter, and amateur investigator's theory on who did what. I'm sorry, but this is one Florida homicide case that will NOT take a Horatio Caine to solve. Yeah, it's awful, but I honestly don't know why this has such staying power with the media as opposed to all the other cases involving the deaths of small children over the past year.
Is something clogging up the tubes of the internet tonight or is it only my ISP that's turned to crap? Around 9:30 pm, suddenly my page load speeds turned worse than dialup... yet the speedtest the AT&T tech had me run said my throughput was at nearly 5 Mbps. I even pulled out my older router and tried hooking that up, and no difference... still slow as hell.
I don't know anyone in Richmond, CA, and I know of no reason why an address in Richmond, CA would be associated with me, yet for some reason that's where SLG shipped the "Bad Guys" comic books that I ordered two weeks ago and still haven't received according to the tracking number that they sent me.
Awaiting their reply now... and it'd better be that they'll re-ship the order.
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