Woo hoo Tim!

Escaped my power-free existence by going out to dinner and the movies (to see Doctor Who again) three miles down the road where there is power. Hopefully this will have all passed us over by the time we get out.

Yay, Tim!

Stay safe, Southeasters!

My PCP is sternly insisting I get the shingles vaccine, since two indicators pretty much means inevitable, according to her.

Here's the thing. The outfit that makes the stuff...isn't, anymore. Has no plans to. My pharmacy, and every pharmacy in town randomly, unpredictably gets a shipment of one box, ten shots per box. Pharmacist's best advice? "Call every pharmacy in town, every morning--if one of them has it, dash over there and hope you're not the eleventh person arriving. We stopped keeping a waiting list when *just our pharmacy's list* got to 300+ names."

I've already decided I can't live indefinitely with that kind of suspense. I'm not calling. If I get shingles and it gets bad, I know where the door is.

Yay Tim!

Yay Tim!

Boo shingles vaccine issues.

Congrats to Tim!!

Yay, Tim!

Posting in here and in literary. I volunteer at my local library putting out donated books and discarded library books for sale. We are kinda over run with juvie and teen books and so if anyone has favorite authors and will cover 50cent pb or $1 hc, I am happy to look through and send you all you want. Also if anyone just in general has a book or books they are looking for, I am happy to keep and eye out.

Congrats Tim!

So minor ethical dilemma here: placed an order with Target early last week. Get told it is coming in 2 ships of 2 &8. Get 2 orders of 4 & cheery "your order complete," in email & on target page. Contact CS, they go ahead & investigate & can't find the 2 & submit refund request for the missing. Side note, I'm really nice to the cs & at the end she tells me I redeemed her night? So anyway, before I go to bed, get notice refund in progress & a $5 Target gift card in email. Ok, standard "we messed up" or cs leeway, nice.

Next morning, random OTHER email stating my order has shipped, 2 items. Um? And it arrives expedited, today.

At this point, I discover how fucked up this all is: billing has been lagging behind orders, so it turns out I only got billed for what arrived..the days they arrived. And thus far, not been billed for the 2. That had a 24 hour appearance after I reported missing.

First instinct is to contact them again & unrefund the refund. Second thought is, maybe the cs pulled some strings & I don't want to get her in trouble? Because the expedited. Third is, Jesus, you're TARGET, if you can't get your inventory & shipping streamlined & sane, you've tacitly incorporated these kind of stupid losses (I've had issues with them before.)

Even though, I'm all STICK IT SOULLESS CORPS, 3 sits uneasily with my framework. But 2 concerns me more. I guess I'll wait a bit to see what other belated transactions happen.

...it's better than worrying about the project I just learned I'm supposed to manage that just got high visibility & I have no plan yet.

I would guess, based on my customer service experience, that trying to I refund the refund whether it was the person you talked to being extra nice or just a mistake somewhere, would be a huge pita for everyone including Target. Just keep the stuff with a clear conscience. We advise customers to keep extra whatever that they got in error all the time, dealing with returns etc. is more costly.

Yeah, just the explaining is such a huge pita, much less remedy-ing a oops in an iffy billing system. Cause clearly the cs learned no more than I from the inside.