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Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 6:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
better to be bouncing them and to have the bank cover them (they should be able to write letters to let people know the events that had transpired), then to be out every $ you had in your checking. so thank the bank, don't curse them.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 6:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Not cursing the bank at all, that's why dh is taking a gc to them manager and teller tomorrow. BUT, pleased allow me to b*tch about the fact that I can't write any checks or use my bank card, can't pay any bills because of this federal theft hold on my account for 2 weeks till my name gets clear by the national clearing service!!!!!!!! can't go to the grocery store, can't go to the drug store, can only deal in cash till this all gets clear up.......it's a royal pain in the ass!

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 7:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
you can beyatch all ya want hon! just wanted to make sure you were beyatching at the right people!

Teachmichigan
Member

07-22-2001

Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 9:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Belated thanks, NT. My next set of papers were much better (thank heavens) -- just had the spring break blues, I guess.

Tex -- good luck getting everything cleared up. We had someone get ahold of one of our numbers for a debit card, they charged one $400 item (DVD burned) and had it shipped to Utah! The company that sold the DVD burner was BETTER than our bank. I happened to get one (non-local) customer service rep. who said I didn't really need a new card since the card wasn't stolen. WHAT????? I told him in no uncertain terms that if we didn't get a new card ASAP, we'd be pulling our accounts. This person obviously had the number -- why would I keep it the same?

Anyway -- sounds like your bank is being wonderful, so I hope the "pain in the rear" part passes quickly!

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 10:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ummm. Texannie? You might have bigger problems than you know about right now. And perhaps the police have already told you that.

There is a thread on it here somewhere. Search on identity theft.

And start researching on the internet for a list of things you will need to do to protect yourself. If you can find that other thread, there is a bunch of information over there.

Here is a place to start: http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs17a.htm

Good luck.

Tabbyking
Member

03-11-2002

Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 10:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
my sister won a lawsuit from k-mart. she put the money into 10 different accounts since each is only insured to 100k.
well, she only used one or two of the accounts and the others were just accruing interest. right? wrong.
she opened a statement to see what kind of interest she had received on her 80k in that account and it was down to 73k.
turns out someone bought a used motorcycle and wrote themselves a check for 2k.
did you know that they can use a 'closed account' number after only 3 months?!
some guy opened a small account at several california banks. he then used up the small amount of money he had in each and 'closed the accounts'. however, he kept checkbooks from each account. after a short time, he would try to write checks from the various accounts and some had been reassigned, as the one to my sis.
the bank had to cover the over 6k loss, but we were shocked to find out account numbers can be re-issued after such a short time~
turns out the guy has done this in several cities in california.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Friday, April 15, 2005 - 5:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This doesnt' appear to be idenity theft, more check theft, but I will have my banker pull my credit report and we will look to see if any new accounts have been opened. All the charges coming through on our bills are legit.
I bookmarked that website, Juju, thanks.
I did copy down the check fraud numbers. Looks like I have more calling than just the I talked to yesterday! grrrr

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Friday, April 15, 2005 - 8:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Texannie, wouldn't hurt to call the three credit reporting agencies anyway and put a fraud alert on as a precaution.

Smrtass
Member

07-07-2004

Friday, April 15, 2005 - 8:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here's my gripe: I started a new job two weeks ago, after a long hiatus from the workforce. It didn't dawn on me til now that I won't be watching BB into the wee hours anymore. Rats!

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Saturday, April 16, 2005 - 7:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't really have a gripe but wanted to post.

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Saturday, April 30, 2005 - 3:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just have to vent. Why is it that on Fridays and Saturdays there is NOTHING on TV but on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays I have to DVR shows all over the place??!! Its not date nights for all of us. Don't the networks realize that? Who is their major demographic, anyway? Is it people that are out there dating? Fine, but can't there be something for the rest of us?

Rant over.

Teachmichigan
Member

07-22-2001

Saturday, April 30, 2005 - 8:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
If you have pay per view through DirecTV -- Collateral is on for 50 CENTS! It's an all-day ticket, too. :-)

Abby7
Member

07-17-2002

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 1:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i'll just post my name.

abby7.

my gripe is that i have a gripe.



Fruitbat
Member

08-07-2000

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 6:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mothers holding babies, when on camera, and bouncing up and down and looking at their child. The baby is fine, the mother is nervous.

You see this all the time on the Today show outside segments and similar situations. Just look at Al, smile answer his question and stop stressing your childs neck.

Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 7:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Your gripe is nothing compared to mine on the same subject, babies and mothers. When a mother puts her finger in her baby's mouth to suck on I just die. I'll bet same mom wouldn't put her dirty fingers in her own mouth and suck on them. It is just yucky beyond belief.

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Monday, May 09, 2005 - 8:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't know the difference between the Vent and Gripe threads. This is the first one I found, so I'll write here.

Management at my work has changed the tipout percentages that servers have to tip the support staff. Now, at the end of the evening, we have to tip out a total of SIX PERCENT of our sales. I have NEVER worked in a place that tips out that much. It is almost unheard of in the restaurant industry.

I am consistently walking with less money now. And quite honestly, servers have no recourse for tipping LESS for crappy support staff. I'd have NO problem tipping out 6% to the people that actually work hard, and do something for me, but, TWO PERCENT goes to frickin' MANAGEMENT. Why do the MANAGERS make more of a percentage of sales than the poor KITCHEN STAFF, that bust their a$$es for 10 hour shifts, behind that hot line, in the middle of summer heat.

I am so bitter right now. And what makes this WORSE, is that there is a tradition of "rounding up" back when tipout was less. If you owe 4.25, you give5 dollars. If you oe 8, you give 10.

I can't handle this, especially considering MOST of Vancouver hasn't gotten with the program and realized that 10% is no longer an acceptable amount. If I make 10% all night, I walk with less than the house.

This is going to be a CRAPPY summer.

Kep421
Member

08-11-2001

Monday, May 09, 2005 - 8:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Which is why in my early youth, I vowed to never work another food service job. Looks like nothing has changed over the last 35 years...

Escapee
Member

06-15-2004

Monday, May 09, 2005 - 1:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Six percent isn't too bad. Think of it as this, If you made 100 per night in tips, you are actually taking home $94 dollars, right? Is that six percent of all tips, or six percent of charge tips?
I guess it depends on where you work, though, right?

What get's me though, is that bus and kitchen staff usually make more hourly than wait staff, and then are expected to be tipped in? I assume you'd rather bus your own tables than give them your hard earned money, or maybe each waitress/section is assigned on busser, then you can clearly monitor who is doing a good job, getting things cleaned up fast. Whos' hostess is working harder seating people getting drinks etc. Whoever works harder will get more money.

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Monday, May 09, 2005 - 1:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i think she meant 6% of the bill, not 6% of the tip.

Kep421
Member

08-11-2001

Monday, May 09, 2005 - 1:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think you're right Landi...if a customer pays 10% of the bill, then the server gets 4%...

...pretty crappy in my book...

Escapee
Member

06-15-2004

Monday, May 09, 2005 - 3:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, I was mistaken. That really isn't fair. I was thinking six percent of their tip goes to the bus/host staff

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Monday, May 09, 2005 - 4:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ohhhh and eeyore, i'd say FORGET THE rounding up business! give them exact change.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Monday, May 16, 2005 - 1:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
forgers and counterfeitters should be shot!!!!!!!!!!!
AND, I am not considered the victim because (thankfully) I am not out any money..so the police haven't done anything with my police report!!! The bank isn't out any money so they haven't filed a police report. They are just blithefully stamping all these @#@#@#$#$ forged checks 'refer to maker' and I am the one being reported in the system as a deadbeat non payer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But, I am not the victim!!!!

Nickovtyme
Member

07-29-2004

Monday, May 23, 2005 - 8:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here's my gripe...Ladies, please bear with me, hear me out and don't jump to any conclusions:

Today, I take my work van to one of the local Firestone in order to get the oil changed and tires rotated and the works. In the lobby they have a little waiting area with magazines, newspapers and a TV to watch. So that's all fine and dandy. As I'm sitting there waiting for them to finish working on my van....a young lady comes walking in, I would say she was maybe 18 to 20 years old...and by the books she was carrying, she was in college. Now, as a male, it was only natural for me to notice what she was wearing when she walked in...I mean, thank god for summer time and mini-skirts and all that...I think if a gal feels comfortable wearing them, then by all means go for it. But here is the gripe...

I'm sitting there in the waiting area, watching TV, looking over the newspapers and she happens to come over and sits across from me...and as I mentioned, she was wearing a blue jean mini skirt...as she sat down, of course, it rode up on her and exposed her god given assets.

Me, being the gentleman I am, quickly averted my eyes and concentrated on the magazine I was reading while she seated herself and adjusted her clothes in some medium of modesty. To my surprise, as I looked up again, she was giving me this disgusted look as if I had done something wrong. I acknowledged her with a kind of shrug to my shoulders as to say, It's not my fault you wore that and sat across from me.

I kept reading the mags and newspapers and would glance up at the TV on occassion to see what was going on and each time I raised my head up, she would scurry around and make sure she was covered and nothing was hanging out.

Now if you think she was uncomfortable about it...you have it all wrong, as I was trying so hard not to look that I finally had to get up and walk outside. To me it was very uncomfortable and I was almost to the point that I just wanted to stare at her so she would get up and move.

If she wants to wear stuff like that, and sit like that across from men, that's fine and I say more power to her...but don't pretend to be offended when there was no reason to be offended and certainly don't act as if it was my fault because your clothes don't fit you right.

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 12:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I agree with you Nick. What do these women EXPECT when they wear provocative clothing? To provoke!! Grrr. I'm offended for you.

Referring back to my post from a while ago: We have to tip out 6% of total sales, no matter WHAT tips we got all night. This is especially hard when a large table doesn't know how to tip. If at the end of the night, every table has tipped 10%, I only see 4% of it.