I got a call from my bank yesterday checking on some recent charges. This happens a lot, and I’ve always been very glad for it. I wasn’t sure about one charge yesterday, so the woman on the phone put my account on hold. Thank God she did – today the charges appeared. I had no…
Tag: scams
Repetition is Good for You
Remember back in school when you were learning those spelling words or learning those math equations? If you went to a school like I did, you were expected to spell those words out five, ten times in order to remember. With math, you had to complete a bunch of similar equations in order to understand…
Scams and the Scamming Scammers Who Scam Them
(With thanks to Al Franken) I’m talking about rental car companies, insurance companies, and anyone or any company that sugar-coats anything unsavory and packages it as a “deal.” Rental car companies, much like insurance companies, have you coming and going (ironic as that statement may be). I rented a car yesterday so daughter could get…
One More Day
Mini Milestones One more day for you to surf on over to the Biz Chicks Rule site and vote for yours truly, possibly scoring your own prize in their What I Want to Be contest! It’s also one more day before the nonpaying client gets notice of litigation. I try to be fair and nice,…
Two More Days!
andThat Smell isn’t Rotten Fish Only two more days remain in the ‘What I Want to Be’ contest sponsored by B5 Media. My odd little rant about cowgirls and rodeos and nurses fainting was added as a finalist, and the post with the most comments by April 30th wins. So if you haven’t commented already,…
Job Listings – Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Stick a Fork in Me – I’m DoneThe steam is subsiding on the client problem of yesterday. While I’m still highly ticked, I’m going to get beyond it. If I think about it, it’ll just start the anger up all over again. So what can we learn from this experience? I trusted him to a…
Fool Me Once
Okay, I’m officially pissed. I started working with someone a short while ago on an alleged charitable project. I volunteered my time, which turns out to be a good thing. This “client”, I just find out from some strenuous digging, has an arrest record and more than a few brushes with the law. I posted…
Another Official Rant Day
And this time, it’s aimed at writers. Writers – where’s your pride? I saw some job postings recently for those low-paying articles. This one in particular paid $15 an article. I wanted to see what kind of idiot would think we’d work for that kind of money, so I clicked on the link. The note…
Or You Could Just Foot My Bills InsteadHere’s one for the books – I answered an ad back in March for a fashion writer. I just received a note today from the “employer.” Instead of offering me the gig or discussing it with me, “Guenther” simply wrote this: “I had to postpone the launch of…