06 May 06 Oi I made a stupid mistake
As the title reads, I made a pretty stupid mistake. It has taken a while for the IRS to issue me a refund. Today I finally checked the website and it showed that they deposited this yesterday. I login to my BoA account and its not there yet. At this point an internal red flag goes off.
So I proceed to review my 1040 and find out that I transposed my account number. Instead of 816498** I put 816489** so you can imagine that the refund is no where near my account.
A quick call to Bank of America and they indeed show a deposit for the refund amount WITH my name on it (literally, the direct deposit actually includes your name) on that bogus bank account. Yes that is after all the problem. The account number that I have given is not a real account. Since this happened on a Friday, it hasn’t been declared wrong and returned to the IRS. If it had been a real account the rep had simply transferred the funds to my account number.
Now I have to call first thing (the customer service rep insisted on calling as early as possible) on Monday at 8am before their ACH department opens up. She said that she can’t guarantee a resolution (which tells me I have about 10% chance of this working) but that the earlier I call the better as they can stop the bounce back to the IRS and still route it to my account. If they can’t help me, I have to contact the IRS and most likely wait an additional 6 weeks (according to their website in situations like this).
The lesson to be learned here? Quadruple check your 1040 if your sending it out especially if your planning to do direct deposit.
03 Apr 06 The day I get censored….
is the day that I will quit.
Someone at my work has taken it upon himself to ‘pre-screen’ my emails as I tend to send out very challenging emails. This guy is known for shoving things under the rug and I have become untrustworthy of. I requested books for maybe $40-$50 in mid-November. It is beginning of April now, and I still don’t have them.
If he really tries to push it on me to screen my emails, I will just leave… no ifs, buts, whens or whys. I will not ever get censored, period.
24 Mar 06 Walgreens sued over “insulting” prescriptions
On digg.com:
Need medicine to control your anxiety problem? Come to your neighborhood Walgreens. The friendly people there will lift your spirits with kind words like “CrAzY B****” and “psycho” stamped in your Prescription’s notes and posted in their national database. At least that’s how good Walgreens service has been in Florida lately…
Am I one of the only people that thinks she probably DESERVED being called a “CrAzY B****”. Having worked retail & fast food I can tell you first-hand experience that people are terrible. They are disrespectful, pushy, and unwilling to listen. Not to be too stereotypical but generally it are the women between the ages of 25 to (time of death) that are the bitchiest, with the worst batch being when they have kids living at home. They are just plainly mean. It is either their way or the highway and they aren’t too scared to let you know either.
So what that Walgreens is putting done, what sounds to me USEFUL, notes in their system. Interesting that it seems public facing, but really so what. It is helpful for other employees to know that they have a ticking time bomb in the store. Nothing is worse then when one of these rude ladies start making a scene with their jibber jabber. I can just picture the conversation now. I completely support Walgreens and I am probably going to shop their now.
What is really funny out of all this… this story SHOWS you how intolerable these women are. They finally get told by someone that they are rude and “CrAzY B****” and what do they do… call their fucking lawyer.
Yvo
07 Jan 06 Dell may use AMD processors in the future
On digg.com:
Michael Dell, Dell’s Chairman, announced at CES that future computers may use AMD processors in place of Intel’s processors that Dell is known for using.
They always say this, every year. I’m too lazy to look up sources but Dell has been saying this for years. My paranoid side even thinks Intel pays them to say this. It is a lot cheaper to pay one company to say they are going to use a product in the future and use it in court then to lose in court (AMD is suing Intel for illegal selling practices).
04 Jan 06 Is it so hard to reply to email?
Is it so hard for people to reply to email. Seriously…. I’m not going to go into exaggerating details… but sheesh. It is quickly turning into a pet peeve of mine.
That is all…
Yvo
31 Dec 05 They yanked The Morning Alternative
Radio sucks, it is worse then TV. On TV they don’t even pull stunts like this unless your name is FOX. However on radio they pull this too often. Too often shows get removed, added and completely revamped, maybe its just a Seattle thing. For example in the last 3 years 96.5 has changed names / formats 4 times. Yikes!
Every morning for some time now I have been listening to The Morning Alternative. Before that it was the Marconi Show (thank god they pulled that though) and prior to that it was Andy Savage. I listened to Andy Savage for the longest time and I woke up to his humor every morning during high school. Entercom wouldn’t renew his contract and so he left and went somewhere else, however during that moment I wasn’t living in the weee hours of the morning. I then started working morning shifts again (think Speakeasy) and I started listening to The Marconi Show and quickly switched my listening over to CDs, until I heard that DJ No Name switched to mornings. I quickly dropped CDs and listened to him. Soon Jennifer White joined and I was once again in radio heaven.
That dream evaporated last week when I heard that starting this Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006 the new morning show will be Adam Carolla. One word: YUCK!. First off I can’t stand the guy. I hate Loveline and anything to do with syndicated shows (unless your Howard Stern), in my opinion it completely obliterates the local community. I don’t want to listen to some jackass in the morning talking about his stardom life in LA or NYC. I liked DJ No Name (realname Bob VanDyne) and Jennifer White because they were regular people who bitched about Seattle traffic and had fun doing their jobs. So now I am going back to CDs and maybe invest in an adapter for my iPod to plugin to my car radio (FM transmitters are a joke, no matter what anyone says). I sure am not going to listen to Adam Carolla. The guy is simply not funny and just frankly annoying. I guess it was fun while it lasted. Entercom’s The End has officially hit ‘The End” on my radio.
28 Dec 05 The magic return of my old digital camera
So it was months ago (July) that I couldn’t find my digital camera anymore. I first realized it was missing when Cam and I went on a weekend trip to Mt. Rainier in August. Cam and I looked everywhere, the apartment, boxes, my car and her car. Even since then I looked through my car and the apartment. I felt sick to my stomach every single time I thought about it. Eventually I gave up hope and just asked for a new one during Christmas. Christmas passed and I got a Canon PowerShot SD450. Amazing little camera. I go and clean up my car today because it was starting to get messy. I look behind the passenger seat and suddenly there it was… the old Canon PowerShot S400. The first 5 minutes were shock. Then I showed my parents who were shocked as well. I called up Cam and she couldn’t believe it either. My mom first offered to buy it but my dad dissuaded her as my dad wants to get her one like I got for Xmas (SD450 from Canon) so after Cam locates the memory she will her own digital camera. The charger & leather case were still in my car. All in all… I was astounded. I had checked the place where I found it at least 10 times, if not more. Oh well… I am just glad its back. I’m also happy that the camera I got for Christmas was better then my old camera.
