A broad subject for today. I'll start with the easiest: banking. As you may recall, I've been having some banking issues. I received good news today, but I had to find the news myself instead of the news coming to me.
My bank account was finally set up, but the lady that was setting up my account didn't give me a call to let me know that it had been processed. Unfortunately, I now need to wait five days for the banking information to be mailed out. That's not the mail service being slow, that is the bank being slow. Hopefully, now it's just a matter of time and I can actually start banking in this country.
In the world of cable TV, Internet and phone service . . .
On Monday, I was waiting for the cable company to call me so I could walk the 2 minutes back to my apartment to meet them and let them in. They apparently stopped by at 2:30 pm (within their 4 hour window), but didn't give me a call. When I called them up, they stated that they couldn't call international numbers. I let the Customer Service Rep know that the sales person that I talked to when ordering said that they could. Perhaps I'm not the only one who thinks its odd that a telecommunications company can't call an international number properly.
I asked if they could still send somebody out that night, she said that it wasn't an option. My only option was to reschedule. I let her know that I had other options, like cancelling the order. She asked me if I'd like to do that - I said "Let me think on it." I hung up.
I call back two minutes later and get a decent Customer Service Representative who actually sounded like she gave a damn. That sold me and I rescheduled for Friday. So, if my blogs seem to be at less regular intervals until then it's because I have to sneak them out over my lunch break when at work.
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