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The level of organizational stupidity is astounding. I'll wager that there are people in Bell Canada that know this is a problem.
Last week my natural gas provider sent me my monthly email informing me that this month's statement was available. Since I'm on auto-pay, I don't usually login to my account. I was curious about my usage, so this month I did, where upon I learned I was behind in my payments - by months. Huh?
Digging further, it appears that their database turns off auto-pay if you change payment accounts. The web site doesn't tell you this, it just happens. I looked diligently in their email - no mention of my account being late. I suppose the heat turning off might clue me in.
So I wrote them a nice customer feedback email explaining that their system was flawed and needed some corrections. Customer service informed me that just because I have auto-pay, wait for it, I still need to verify it's working. 
They missed the entire point of my email. I'm reading about how Marriott, Dell, Dunkin Donuts, Home Depot, Target, etc have all had recent data breaches. Sort of explains why my card # has been stolen 6 times in the last 3 years.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
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charlieg wrote: Sort of explains why my card # has been stolen 6 times in the last 3 years.
See? At least someone's trying to get transactions processed against your credit card...
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Some might know I am not new here. Most may not.
Anyways, I have moved to Netherlands. So far everything has been good personally. Financially I am screwed because every service (in India) I engage with is run by idiots. I am OK shelling out money as long as they do the job. They don't.
Positives? I like it here. Lots of walking, less pollution and so many beers!
Work wise, I am going to miss programming. If I get time I might write an odd method here and there but I see I have moved to the dark side (no not management, consultant).
If anyone here is thinking to move to another country, understand their laws and also keep aside 3 times normal monthly budget for at least 2 months after moving.
Apsrt from this spend time understanding their culture but I make sure I do not copy or pretend to be like them. It really has helped me in my 8 years of travel around the World.
Now, real question, did someone beat OG in points? Did DD came back? Did hamsters make a union and now we are all slaves?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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'llo,
Hadn't seen you for a while, Welcome back! Well OG got beat once in points but he came back stronger than ever, Nothing has been seen of Darlek since Pikey accusations, he was running as a local politicain as far as I can tell he wasn't victorious...The hamsters get a little annoyed now and then but haven't forced into Human Balls yet (kinda like a Zorb, but made from polycarbonate)...
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lw@zi wrote: did someone beat OG in points?
Yeah, but I did a midnight raid down the chimney, avoided the lasers, jumped over the shark tank, and stole 'em all back.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If that's what it takes, you're more than welcome to keep the lead. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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That sounds a lot like you were playing "Zwarte Piet", did you wear black facial paint too ?
More information about the tradition here: Sinterklaas - Wikipedia[^] 
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lw@zi wrote: did someone beat OG in points?
We briefly had our chance a couple of weeks back:
I'm up to 768 rep points in QA now!
Sadly, Chris managed to track down the bug and fix it, so we'll just have to wait for him to overflow the rep point data type.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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lw@zi wrote: Anyways, I have moved to Netherlands
The Northern part, or the good part?
lw@zi wrote: Apsrt from this spend time understanding their culture but I make sure I do not copy or pretend to be like them.
Already noticed that, you said you liked it here. One of the national hobbies is complaining how bad it is; the weather, the prices, the railways.
..and the rent is too damn high!
Welcome 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: The Northern part, or the good part?
Den Bosch, guess that is South.
I have noticed people complaining about weather not other things though, yet. The look like they are not able to process the information when my response about weather is that it's good.
Some did tell me rent is high but I am OK with paying a little more as long as I live in the center (don't need a parking spot so nothing to complain).
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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lw@zi wrote: The look like they are not able to process the information when my response about weather is that it's good.
It's usually also not as bad as they make it out to be. Have a kroketje!
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Good to hear from you again, be careful not to get involved in the "Zwarte Piet" discussion which is getting quite heated by now
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I am not going to discuss anything sensitive here since most of you appear to be giants to puny little me and I don't want to get beat up.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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I'm not sure whether I recognize you, but I do recognize the sig:
lw@zi wrote: "It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]
...which I've always disagreed with, because JavaScript and VB6 aren't difficult to "decipher". The difficult thing to understand, if anything, is WTF they were thinking.
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Sounds like a good advice, one that i surely need if I ever have the chance to move Netherlands.
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Did the Powerpoint presentation cross the road to get to the other slide?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You got it. Foiled again.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Powerpoint presentation
Hey, this forum is supposed to be KSS!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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seems this thought is fading out
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My Word that one is Suite. You Excel at this. It would be a Vision to have Access through the Windows in your Office just to watch you work on the these...
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Oh My God!
 
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Hi All,
Feel the need to release bile. There has been a security update. 'SECURITY' the end result is I had to use my personal mobile (I don't have a company one) to down load the Microsoft Authentication App and run it to be allowed to get in to my email (Outlook) I then had to use it again to open Word is wrong! If I have to use it for every M$ App I will not be doing much. To start to empty my bile ducts I sent a very blunt email to the Head of Corperate security, think it would land on his get caught by his fire wall...One of help desk people was on the phone to him and I was mentioned by name as having written a blunt email (I did remove the 'Elephant you and horse you rode in on'), might be looking for a new job on Monday!
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Don't forget to include the invoice for the new fully loaded phone you're buying for work and its service plan on todays expense report, or all the hours you spend farting around with security theater instead of working as a separate line item on your time sheet.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
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glennPattonWork wrote: I sent a very blunt email to the Head of Corperate security
I doubt he got it. After all, he has to use the MAA to open his Outlook email too. And probably for each email!
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