Wednesday, May 24, 2006
News stories that just make you say WTF?
Exercise: 400 crunches, 100 push ups, 50 leg lifts
First up....all the hoopla over the Dixie Chicks and their latest album. Come on people it's been three years. Time to let go of the grudge especially since many of you who voted for Bush have now decided you too think the guy isn't doing such a hot job. Who really gives a shit anyway? I mean after all it was said in London - some place where people didn't like Bush to begin with and big deal what side they take when it comes to politics. Doesn't change the music. Their music isn't exactly what I would define as "my bag" but I'm tempted to buy their albums just as a method of saying, "Way to stand up for what you believe!"
I was watching the national news tonight and there was a story on there which just only solidifies my thoughts of how COMPLETELY screwed up immigration is. It was about a young man who's mother petitioned him here from Trinidad when he was 15. After he graduated from high school, he joined the Army as a greencard soldier. He had applied for citizenship but the government wouldn't give it to him because the card with his fingerprints didn't have a required signature. When he was in Iraq, he found a way to go about getting the fingerprints. As he was on his way to get them, he was killed when his convoy hit a roadside bomb. After over a year of waiting, he never got it, then on the day of his funeral, his mother was presented with a certificate of his citizenship (funny how when the kid was alive, it took years but after death the government produced it in "5 minutes"). Had he not had to go get those fingerprints, more than likely he would still be alive today. What a bunch of crap. Now I realize this set in motion a way for soldiers to have "fast track" citizenship but I think it's absolutely ridiculous that someone had to needlessly die in order for it to happen.
The DMPD is going to be cracking down on noisy cars and motorcycles after increased complaints from residents. What decides what is considered noisy? Well you would think it would be determined by some sort of electronic measuring device but no....it's up to the cops' discretion. If they can hear a noise from 50 feet away and consider it a nuisance, they can issue a ticket. For a loud muffler, the fine is $43.20. A noisy car stereo citation earns you a court appearance. If the accused is found guilty, the judge gets to decide the fine. Now granted I would love to see someone come and haul the Vampire's ass away for his obnoxiously loud motorcycle that he loves to rev at all hours (unfortunately though we aren't under the DMPD's jurisdiction), but I can see how this could get ridiculous pretty quickly. Besides, I would much rather those cops be out writing tickets to speeders and arresting dangerous criminals than bothering themselves with enforcing noise ordinances.
And now for something completely different.....
There are some days when I've gone into work and not long after being there, I wonder what in the hell possessed me to walk through the door. Today was one of those days. I had filed two payment requests from a manufacturer. We received a check about a week ago which was a full payment for one of the claims and then $16 (yah that's right $16 I shit you not) towards the second claim which was for $320. Well, because we can't send partial payments into corporate to be processed, the woman who does accounts receivable in our office decided to wait a week and see if a second check showed up (sometimes this manufacturer does pay with two checks for what reason I don't know). Yesterday marked the week - still no check. I emailed the woman at the manufacturer, explained the situation, and asked when we could expect payment. She didn't really give me a reason for the hold up but she said that she put the request through again. This morning I received another email from her. I guess there was a problem - she couldn't find the funding she needed and asked me to give her the details of all the claims made against the particular fund number being used for this particular claim. Um ok chic, you got all the fuckin information already dig it out your damn self. Obviously I couldn't say that to her and thankfully I had kept good notes so I sent all the information back to her only to see that as my email was sending, she had sent me a message telling me that she figured it out already - GRRRRR! It turns out that because of her "laziness" with a previous claim and the way it was paid, it had backlogged this one. Ok fine...can you tell me when the check will be issued? 30 fuckin days from the time AP receives it - WHAT?! Oh and if for some reason she has to completely rework the funding, that will add another 1 - 2 weeks on top of that. YIKES! It's then that I question whether or not there is a time constraint on the check we already have. Oh yah....she was tons of help with that. She asks me if there is anything written on it and I tell her no. That's when she says in a rather snotty way, "Well, there you go." Ok honey whatever you say. Most checks I've seen have some sort of statute of limitation. I told her I only wanted to make sure because I didn't want it going void in the time we were waiting on the other check. That's when she starts ragging on me about it not being her problem blah blah blah and if we have to void the first check it's going to take oodles of time to get that reissued. Jesus woman lay off the fuckin coffee! Yah, she's that high strung. I couldn't get her off the phone fast enough after that - was afraid I might say something I shouldn't which I did after I hung up. I do believe the word that came out of my mouth was BIOTCH! J-Lo, who sits on the other side of the cube wall from me, said, "Are you calling people names over there?" I said, "Damn right I am!!!" We both had a good laugh over that. Anyway....I have decided to refer to this woman who can't seem to pull her head from her ass long enough to breathe Queen of Tards from the planet Retardia. UGH! *RE*
And the winner of American Idol this time around......
Wait for it.....
TAYLOR HICKS! YAY!!!!!! I am sooooooo glad he got it. He's one of the people I've liked since the beginning.
Otay...that's me outta here for the evening.
Til next time...
Knocked Off By The Fashion Diva
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