When I worked in retail people always commented that our store was the only one to check signatures on credit cards, and people were shocked when I wouldn't accept a credit card that was not in their name.
Mal: Take your people and go. Captain: You would have done the same. Mal: We can already see I haven't.
'Out Of Gas'
Spike's Bitches 41: Thrown together to stand against the forces of darkness
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
sj - Jul 18, 2008 5:47:20 am PDT #7599 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Calli - Jul 18, 2008 5:47:27 am PDT #7600 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Things you don't want to hear from an oncologist: The tumor was so bizarre we sent it up to Sloane-Kettering for analysis.
I'm sorry Aim's ex-boss is being an ass-hat. If you can't read a date on a check I'm thinking maybe you shouldn't be running a business.
Aims - Jul 18, 2008 5:50:27 am PDT #7601 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Turns out it was his sister who is doing the filling in that did it. SK, my friend and former co-worker, was very apologetic. I might have over-dramatized the sitch abit, but still. I have gone out of my way to help since I left. I've spent an hour on the phone with other co-worker showing her how to run reports for the properties, I have helped SK with eviction paperwork and updating her as to where things were with certain tenants when I left. The absolute LEAST that could have been done was to hold the damn check 24 more hours.
Deena - Jul 18, 2008 6:02:52 am PDT #7602 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
beth b - Jul 18, 2008 6:03:33 am PDT #7603 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
When we were renting through a property management co, we were going to be on vacation when the rent was due. I asked them if I could post date a check. Turns out -- people do that all the time and they were very careful not to deposit any checks early. would have screed their reputation as a property management co.
And If you know when funds will be coming in -- don't you shift your payroll dates?( permanently ) Inconvenient ,but even your employees prefer checks that don't bounce.
Ginger - Jul 18, 2008 6:06:24 am PDT #7604 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Aims' boss: Still an asshole.
EX-boss. EX-boss.
EX-boss. EX-boss.
Things you don't want to hear from an oncologist: The tumor was so bizarre we sent it up to Sloane-Kettering for analysis.
Oh, dear. On the other hand, it could bring extra-special attention. Not in anything like the same league, but I once had a weird growth on my toe, and the dermatologist got every doctor in the practice to come look at it. My feet became very embarrassed. It turned out to be a mutant wart.
amych - Jul 18, 2008 6:13:42 am PDT #7605 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Oy, Calli. I mean, path samples are sent around all the time for further analysis, second opinions, whatev -- but ya think they maybe could've found a better way to put it?
Nora Deirdre - Jul 18, 2008 6:15:42 am PDT #7606 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
:scuffs toe, blushes:
You guys! You're good for my ego I tell you what.
Things you don't want to hear from an oncologist: The tumor was so bizarre we sent it up to Sloane-Kettering for analysis.
Yikes, Calli! I am hoping this somehow makes the diagnosis more comprehensive? Or maybe it's so bizarre that it is actually totally harmless!
Fred Pete - Jul 18, 2008 6:23:53 am PDT #7607 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Belated Happy Birthday, Juliana!
Steph L. - Jul 18, 2008 6:50:57 am PDT #7608 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Things you don't want to hear from an oncologist: The tumor was so bizarre we sent it up to Sloane-Kettering for analysis.
Yikes, Calli! I am hoping this somehow makes the diagnosis more comprehensive? Or maybe it's so bizarre that it is actually totally harmless!
Right -- I totally don't want to give you false hope, but when a pathology lab says "this is weird," sometimes it's harmless-weird that was mistaken for harmful because no one had seen anything like it before.
Teppy, was it this you were thinking of with the signature thing?
Actually, I had read that one before, but it was Madeleine L'Engle, in A Circle of Quiet. And she only did the check-signature thing once; very possibly I conflated her story with credit-card dude.
ION, the Apple repair dudes in my 'hood were awesome even on the phone, and told me that they could fix it in about an hour...once they have the part. So I'm dropping the laptop off Monday after work. They said that the part + repair will be in the neighborhood of $150, which is naturally more than I *want* to pay but far less than I was fearing. So that's cool. And they're Apple-authorized repair/training/etc. dudes, so I feel good about it.