What irritates you?

mike ---- :frown: very sorry :frown:

In my case it is settlements from class action lawsuits against asbestos companys.

It's really strange. I don't even know how many companies are being sued, but I randomly get checks when a company settles. Just the other day I got an interest check from a company that had stalled in paying and the lawyers went after them and they had to pay.

Here's a scam ...wow

it came in my e-mail -all in red lettering



THE COCA COLA COMPANY

PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD

DEPTCOCA COLA AVENUE

STAMFORD BRIDGE LONDON.

SW1V 3DW UNITED KINGDOM

THE COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual

final draws held on the (20th APRIL, 2006) by Coca-Cola in conjunction with

the. British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion, your email was among the 20 Lucky winners who won £1,000,000.00 each on the THE COCA\'COLA COMPANY PROMOTION.

However the results were released on the 1st MAY, 2006 and your email was

attached to ticket number (7PWYZ2006) and ballot number (BT:12052006/20) The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses

from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate

bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the

internet.

However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.

The selection process was carried out through random selection in our

computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over

250,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world.

This Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also Licensed

by the. The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).This lottery

is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public.

In other to claim your A £1,000,000.00 prize winning, which has been

deposited in a designated bank. However,you will have to fill the form below and send it to the Promotion manager of THE COCA COLA COMPANY for verification and then you will be directed to the bank where a cheque of A,£1,000,000.00 has already been deposited in your favour.

NAME:.....................................

AGE:........................................

SEX:........................................

ADDRESS:...............................

EMAIL:....................................

PHONE:...................................

OCCUPATION:.........................

COMPANY:..............................

COUNTRY:...............................

Please you are adviced to complete the form and send it immediately to our

Promotion manager through email or fax for prompt collection of your fund from the designated bank.

(CONTACT PROMOTION MANAGER)

Name: Agent Blanco Gonzalez (Mr)

Phone # : +44 706 479 2529

FAX # : 00-44-8106-78-0681

E MAIL: fdcy_nt@yahoo.co.uk



You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially

your ticket number and ballot number. (This is important as a case of double

claims will not be entertained).

Staff of Coca-Cola and the British American Tobacco Company are not to partake in this Lottery.

ditto

asparagus --- ish!

you're pretty good!

I guess if there's no love loss anyway with these two, I would try to get something. You can actually call the police if they start removing items from the house before they've legally taken possession through the executor or probate.

A co-worker of mine still has a situation with his mother in law's estate. There are like 8 children and there was NO will. So the two greedy ones started taking things left and right without even asking anybody which pissed off the rest of them. One sibling is living in her house for free. And the cops were called when a couple of them started selling things off in a secret gargage sale. The cops were called when my co-worker's wife showed up and started smashing everything for sale with a baseball bat. :eek:

We were lucky, my grandmother gave away all of the family heirlooms and anything of worth in years before her death. Of course, there is always somebody who grumbles about how they didn't get their share. :eyeroll:

unfortunately I have learned the hardway - with NO will and 5 siblings, if you're the oldest than you can take what you want and the cops can't stop it. It's OLD SCHOOL LAWS.

This was about 8 years ago:

Before probate the oldest can come in and take as much as they can grab. After probate the big things usually get seperated between the kids (furniture & selling the house) BUT anything small that got taken by the oldest that you can't recall or mention gets absorbed by the oldest. AND if the oldest doesn't give you a certain piece of furniture requested by a younger kid than the youngest has a decision to make...do I go through all the trouble of taking them back to court or let the oldest just keep it?

SUCKS!!!

It's just like cemetery plots... if it's NOT in the will than the oldest son gets the plots. Now if the oldest son dies with the plots in his name? His wife gets them-not the next sibling! AND if a cemetery plot isn't used with (I think its...) 60 years? It may be 80, than the plots revert back to the cemetery and they can resell them.

Kinda like the family Bible always got passed down to the oldest son. ... sad about that too is if the oldest son relly didn't care about church or genealogy than you would see family Bibles at garage sales instead of offering it to a family memeber! What wrong with this world?

jerks

irritates...

my dogs killed another of the neighbor's cats. only THIS time, she figured it out.

man I hope she doesn't try to poison my babies.

Not having air conditioning and hardly getting any sleep because of it.

more stupid problems at work. Email didn't work on the new upgraded 1.5mbit service. Therefore it's my fault and why didn't I have the preminition to see this coming and avoid it before it became a problem. It's also my fault that all the morning emails are lost/gone.

Oh please... just fire me and get it over with. Then I can go work for the other company and maybe gain some semblance of sanity in my work environment.

Oh, top it off with the boss' kid threw a temper tantrum.

KC - FWIW - I think it's time you need to realize that you've done everything you can for these people, yet they don't seem to be appreciative of any of your efforts. GET OUT!! Go with dignity and pride that you did all you did and could. Don't continue to let them manipulate you like they are. So many other oragnizations would love to have an emplyee like you and you WOULD be appreciated. It just sounds like the reward not worth the effort you put forth.......Exit -> stage right!

Get a window unit... it's sooooo worth it. Consumer reports gives Frigidaire models their Best Bet. The nice thing about frigidaire is the unit is still the same size even if you get higher BTU models. Other brands have the higher the BTU's the bigger the unit, therefore it won't fit in your window. So measure the width of your window first.

Hey TMK - You can always give me a call and I could give you the cold shoulder. :chagrin:

spritz the sheet on your bed, and toss it in the freezer for a half an hour.. it comes out all nice and chilly. :smile:

that is one thing I have lucky - by 9, it's in the low 50's here - even on the hottest days. What suxs is, that when you go out at night, you always have to bring a sweater.

It's funny, we just came home with a Frigidaire unit!

You know I call you every night, waiting for the bedside phone to ring, longing to hear your voice.....

Now if you'll excuse me I have to go compose myself. :goofy:

due to recent desisions by federal courts...

I'm now required to leave a new message on "debtors" home phones...

this is BAD ...really bad...wtf are the courts thinking....

this is a message for "insert name". If you are not "insert name" please hang up or delete this message now. By continuing to listen to this message you acknowledge you are "name". This is "kitch" from "my company", a debt collection company. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Please call me at 1888-xxx-xxx.

wtf?? I can disclose on answering machines....holy cow...people are going to be ticked off!!! unreal....

like a 11 yr kid is going to stop listening to it...and will find out about mom and dad's issues

I do a lot of crappy things in my job......to get people to call me back....but disclosing is 100% wrong in my book...

I mean seriously....this is wrong.....

its like those fax's or email's that say don't read this....ya right...I'm reading it...

When's that going to start, Kitch? I gotta start changing my voicemails...

today..for my company...

Irritates... hungry - but can't think of anything I really want to eat.

hmmm - going to go roam around grocery store.

going to go roam around grocery store.

I've been doing that a lot lately.... they're air conditioned, ya know.... :goofy:

Really? For Minnesota too? We're usually pretty protective on things like that even if the feds think otherwise.

What I don't understand is if you called me asking for money or leaving a message asking, I still don't have any to give you. What difference is it for obtaining cash? Do people actually say they never received a collections call and figured that all the messages were from solicitors?

It's still not going to yield any more money if someone is ignoring the calls anyway.

Oh, and another thing. Is it me or does anyone else see the word clue in the word due? heh

I always see that for some reason. :chagrin:

I think the value is that they can prove they were on the phone for x amount of time at your number so therefore you had to have gotten the message.

I think you may be right to a point. I know that lawyers bill for their collection time spent on the phone then add it to the outstanding balance and bill the original note holder. Or the debtor as part of a settlement. This way they could kinda prove that they were actually doing something instead of embellishing their actions.

I don't know.....wtf is going on.....all I know is I don't like it...

irritates: Fires.

We have a 100 acre one that is over the hill and for some reason is affecting the power at our sister wineries on the other side - which means that my servers (located there) are on the blink.

We also have 3 other fires burning on this side of the hill - which is making for quite a smokey 95 degree day.

here's to hoping the wind changes directions.

dang - just checked the updates.. it's over 600 acres now.

wow.

the one at the geysers (the one causing me all the smoke) is only about 300 acres.

Irritates:

after reading the paper today - my new increased fear of Rattlesnakes and being bitten (or one of my dogs being bitten) when going out to the lake. We have to cut through this brush area - which is a potential haven for them.

Not to mention the newest warnings remind us that rattlesnakes can swim and look like sticks floating in water. Now what dog can resist a floating stick I ask you?

ugh....

rattlesnakes are afraid of dogs,

knowing my dog, it would be the other way around....

you know how stupid it feels, to have a dog who's afraid of a fricken flashlight?!?!

The cat, I'll give him.... my cat can be mean.... but dude... a flashlight? come on!

no they aren't - there have been several dogs bitten in the past few weeks. one was 10 feet away, and the snake became agressive with the dog.

Nick - my big one is afraid of a rolled up towel.. like when you snap it.

120 pound dog.. would stop anyone trying to get into the house with a gun or a knife.. but show him a towel, and his butt is under the bed

dang.... he's missin out on some tug-o-war, then?

I dont blame him, though.... Ive been in locker-rooms before.... towels hurt :goofy:

I havn't had a debt collector call me in 17 years. I didn't get along with Sprint back then and even that was for like $250 bucks. I was a teenager living on my own.

I don't like when I answer the phone and there is a pause!!! It's obvious that its a solicitor so I hang up.

...did you play lockerroom games with your dog??

.....I hand dial everybody.....

company has a .75 million $ dialer system that I don't use that often...

I did use it about 7yrs ago to dial in to 93x on a sat morning when nobody came into work cuz it snow'd...guy was pissed I had every line on their system....He told me I wouldn't be able to win again....geeezzz.....I just hit redial I told him

but I set up 300 lines (phones) to dial only one # and respin it if busy...

heh

I just talked with Kitch not to long ago. :smile:

Um No. I did not play lockerroom games with my dog. He came from the pound already fearful.

Thats cheating.... good job :cool:

That would have been something I woulda tried back when they were still doing X-Fest.

What did you win?

tic's for something.....I sold them...thats' all I recall...

HAVING MY GMAIL DOWN FOR 5 days!!!!

at least!!!

I goofed and subumitted a forgot my password link...

grrr....I hope I don't need to switch everything over to something else again...

damn damn damn damn

have a temp backtalk to me, for the last few days. After I've practically bent over backwards to make sure she's getting only a fair share of the workload (actually less than a fair share, and she's gotten time off...).

If she gets hired full time.... I'm not going to be happy.

fixed...

I love u google .....I'm sorry I swore at you google...I'm sorry...can you forgive me...how about me kiss and make up?

::giggle::

Annoy - people who think rules should be bent for them.

When my girls and I went to convention in Arizona last month - we were to attend the Annual General Meeting (which is like 9 am to 2 pm) and it totally is boring and suxs.

However to get a portion of your registration paid - per our policy - it says you must attend the ENTIRE meeting (as well as have 75% in annual meeting attendance etc.)

well - out of 12 of my girls 6 of them left after the first hour 2 of them never showed at all - making 4 eligible for reimbursement.

Last night we got the accounting of money in that pot - and each of the girls would have gotten $215 of the $230 they paid to attend refunded... had they stayed in the meeting.

but the didn't - and when they slipped out of the meeting, they all got busted at the pool drinking during that time, and I got fined in the meeting for not being able to control my girls ($100 fine - which I passed on to them)

so now they are all mad at me.

Hey - I'm not the dumbass who decided that poolside was more imporant than the future of the organization... :eyeroll:

Sorry Vino but I gotta vote poolside on this one. :smile:

Sucks being the boss lady doesn't it.

I like that policy though. They should have that in my company. Huh

I can blame you too when my employees bitch that they can't do shots instead of what I sent them there for. I always quiz them afterwards anyway. Keeps them on their toes. :wink: