I had a long discussion with my bank’s branch manager about this. They assured me that I don’t have overdraft protection. I’ve yet to have any fees since I keep a reasonable balance. I want my debit card to fail and my check to bounce. He assured me that’s what would happen.
A neighbor pointed out to me that Venmo, Paypal, and other such services lack the consumer protections of a credit card. So, I don’t use them. If I have a problem with a purchase, I know my credit card vendor will contact the merchant and deal with it. Even if the vendor says “All sales are final”, I’ll get a refund when I challenge the sale.
Another one by the same moving company apparently. I hope it was a different driver and their new insurance policy will cover this.
Imagine mentioning climate change and the raising temperature at an on-site meeting in TX when you, from BC, Canada get called into HR for being culturally insensitive. That shit may be illegal in TX but it’s not in CA. See you in court.
I wonder what would happen if the names, addresses, and schools of the families of everyone that works in the sheriff’s department were blasted out on social media.
I left FB before the pandemic and don’t regret it. When I still had an account, I had to verify my account by sending them my DL. I did it but blanked out my address and DL #. That was invasive enough. This is just insane.
Yep. I’ve joined the buycot for Lent. I put off all purchases there until after Easter and Passover are over.
When that bicycle rider flipped off Trump’s motorcade during his first Badministration, the social media blowback got her fired from her job. She ran for Congress and won.
I hope this woman has a similar outcome.
Side query: I wonder if anyone in Child Protective Services is investigating Melon Husk’s home environment for his kids. He’s an resident alien who lied on his immigration paperwork and could be subject to deportation.
I always thought it was named after Maynard G. Krebs. [you rang]
Back in the mid-80s, when I got an email from HR about the Christmas Party at the local office, I sent a reply to the district HR manager complaining that not everyone in the company celebrated Christmas. Later that day, another email came out announcing the Holiday Party. So glad I had a hand in educating HR.
Old Chemists never die. We just fail to react.
Tried to unsubscribe at start of the year when they added commercials to Prime Videos. Wouldn’t let me cancel. I could set my subscription to NOT RENEW but I could not cancel it and get a pro-rated refund. So I’ll keep it until December with it constantly reminding me how much I save on postage with Prime. Won’t really change my usage patterns. I’ll just group my purchases until shipping is free. No more 50lbs of cat litter drop shipped overnight for $2.50.
Lovely little utility.
Shut up and take my money.
Although with the state of both Target’s near me, there’s often stuff out of stock.
peroxide – come on. The last time Target didn’t have peroxide or rubbing alcohol was during the pandemic lockdown. What their excuse NOW?
Hershey’s Almond Nuggets – OK. They’re popular. So if there’s only 1 bag left, you should maybe order more.
t-shirts in my size – the men’s accessory clothing section was a disaster. I don’t know when the last time a sales associate tidied up, but there were underwear sizes all mixed up from different brands (Fruit of the Loom, Hanes, etc.) and quality. I had to buy what I wanted on-line.
It’s gotten so that I don’t trust either of my Target’s to have stuff I buy there on a regular basis.
I got hit by this AT&T usage cap for internet downloads. I went through 250GB of downloads in less than a month. Most of it was internet backups of a newly installed system. They don’t offer a data tier without a cap in my area so I was stuck paying $10/10GB over that month. Next month I added a $30 unlimited data charge to my bill. That’s OK as I’m consistently going over their cap again due to backups. Unless I buy much more expensive plan from a commercial provider and pay for Fibre installation, I’m stuck.
40 years ago at UCLA, I had to do my FORTRAN programs on punch cards submitted through the batch system. The CS/Math department (no CS department then), only offered 1 section in FORTRAN with 40 others in PASCAL. And it was taught by an Engineering professor. Why would a Chemistry major take a computer science class? Remember all those shiny machines CSI uses to do forensic analysis? They came from chem labs.
Climate is what we expect. Weather is what we get. – Lazarus Long