I'm Not Miss January

Me: Thank you for calling (my company) support, this is Destiny how can I help you?
Customer: Hi Ashley, how are you today?
WTH! How hard is Destiny? Say it with me people, des-ti-nee. See, not hard.

So, it would appear that the order I was all excited about finally shipping, didn’t. Supposedly, it went out yesterday, and there is still no tracking info. Apparently, someone else had something similar happen to her, and it didn’t ship til 3 days later. Dammit!
I am also about to get my first ever no payment complaint on ebay. I bid on some sample jars for making some givaways, and the lady declined to take my payment because my address is not confirmed, so I said have a nice day, and went elsewhere. Now, she is bitching because she didn’t get her money. She is not getting a cent from me! I don’t care if ebay hits me with a no pay. I sent the money, she declined it. Nowhere in her auction did it say confirmed addresses only, or I would never have bid. We shall see how it all works out. It would be my only one in 4.5 years of being on ebay, so I doubt it will be a world ender, but still annoying.

Nothing seems to be going right for me right now. I don’t have the $$$ to pay rent (tomorrow! That is going to require some “creative financing”), I can’t find the fucking registration for my car, so I have to go sit in line at the DMV, and a myriad of other stupid shite lately. Freeking corporate hasn’t shipped my order from a WEEK ago, so I have $1400 worth of toys sitting in the warehouse still too. Bleh! Ah well, this too shall pass. It will be tomorrow soon enough, and today won’t matter as much. Besides, they found my keys!

I did a party on Saturday night, and like I always do, I left my keys on the right side of my demo kit. Apparently someone confused my keys with theirs or some such, because my keys went missing. We searched the entire house, and eventually the honey had to come get me with the extra set.
They still haven’t shown up. :’(

Fun facts for callers:

1. Just because I happen to be a woman, it does not automatically mean I am a secretary. I get at least 2 calls a day wher the person starts out the call by bitching because he was sent back to an operator, even though I answer the phone with “thank you for calling xxxxx support, how may I help you”. They just automatically assume that I am an operator because I am a woman. GGGGGRRRR!
2. Do not start the call by saying “I don’t think you can help me with this”. I took a poll of my male coworkers, and not a one of them report getting this behaviour from people. I get at least 5 calls a day where they start with that. If you don’t think a woman is smart enough to do work for you, Fuck off and Die already.

So a dude called today saying he was having “a weird problem with one of his emails”. It seemed that when he sent email from his webmail, it said the email address for another user. I ask him, did you check x screen? Him: of course I did, I’m not stupid. (edit: I always love it when they say that, because those people are usually the dumbest.) I log in, look at the screen in question, and oh! look! someone else’s email in the box. When I pointed that out to him, interestingly, he hung up. *giggle*

I know I usually use this blog to rant about stupid things, like the tear in my pants or some dumb shit customer who pissed me off again, but this story is something that I think we all need to think about.

From Times Asia:
It is a measure of just how terrible what happened to Mukhtar Mai was that news of the attack on her sent shock waves across Pakistan, where sexual assault and violence against women is commonplace. Mai, a 30-year-old woman who lives in the remote hamlet of Meerwala, was brutally and publicly gang-raped in June 2002 by four volunteers on the orders of a village court, or jirga. Mai’s then 12-year-old brother Abdul Shakoor (pictured behind her) had been seen walking with a girl from the more influential Mastoi tribe; they demanded Mai’s rape to avenge their “honor.” Mai’s family sat helplessly while she was dragged into a room, even as she screamed and pleaded for mercy. To further humiliate her, and make an example of those who would defy the power of local strongmen, she was paraded naked before hundreds of onlookers. Her father covered her with a shawl and walked her home.

This woman, instead of letting what happened to her destroy her, decided to fight back and change the system that did this to her. She took a settlement given to her by her government and instead of spending it on herself, she built a school in her village. In fact, the daughter of one of the men who raped her goes to the school she built.
She is a model of courage and heroism for her people, and for all women.

Just got off the phone with my bank, and it would seem that I have to physically go to the bank and fill out the forms to dispute the charge. They actually notarise them. Who knew? Now I have to get off work early tomorrow to go to the bank and deal with this. I can’t do it today, because I have a doctor’s appointment, so the bastards get to keep my money for another day.

So, I go to the bank yesterday to put my most recent sex toy money in it. I do so, and then, in looking at the receipt, I realise that there is not as much money in there as there should be. I run home, look at my account, and see a charge from someone I did not authorise.
Apparently some asshole got my credit card number, name and address somewhere. I can’t figure out where, because this was my Visa Check Card, which I never use online for this very reason. I got my credit card closed down, and I have a new one on the way, but that wont come for 7 – 10 business days. Because they apparently have other info than just my CC number, I need to go to the credit agencies and pull credit reports and all kids of crazy shit.
Fucking bastards. Bright side, I guess I don’t need to worry about overspending for the next couple of weeks. My cash is all trapped! Shit.

So, a dude calls me and he is like, my account is set up wrong. I have an account that I paid for for 5 years with xyz options. I tell the guy that is not possible, because we dont sell 5-year accounts. Our maximum payment period is 2 years. He keeps insisting that we sent it, and reading off account numbers that are not ours, usernames/passwords that are not ours. Finally, he goes, “wait, you are not XYZ company. Oops.” That’s why I answer the phone with my company name, idiot. LOL