Montana Jones

Ephemera

If the country is in such a horrible credit crisis, why am I still getting all these annoying credit card offers in the mail?

Labels: credit, credit card, ephemera, junk mail

Programming the credit card machine

Guy:

[on phone] Hey, this is Guy. I need you to pull up account XX. Okay. Yeah, we are doing the transmit and it is asking for a password… Okay… Well can we just get rid of that? I've done over 80 of these on the SUX1000 and I have never had to use a password to transmit before… Uh, huh… So I need to tell the customer to just live with it?

Me:

Oh fucking hell.

Guy:

Yeah, do please ask someone. And another thing, we need you to update the address... On the receipts. Yeah, these receipts go to customers and he wants a different address on there... It's box 000... Oh, you can't use a post office box?

Me:

Oh fuck. They are just wrong.

Guy:

So you can put the P.O. box on a second line? Okay, just do it. Oh, you CAN put the right address on? Great thanks.

Me:

And the phone number. Get the right phone on there too.

[later]

Guy:

Okay, lets give it a test. Is that the right address and phone on the slip?

Me:

Yup.

Guy:

And see, it's a one button transmit now too.

Me:

As it should be.

Guy:

At first she wasn't going to do it but when she started hearing all the swearing in the background I think that motivated her.

Me:

Whatever it takes. It's my money not hers.

Labels: business, conversation, credit card, customer, machine, money, motivation, phone, programming, swearing

Something about old dogs and new tricks

OD:

I'm not sure about that bank merger. We'll have to see how they handle their accounts.

Me:

The teller lady today told me that account numbers and things will stay the same, only the name will change. We just use up our existing checks and when we get new ones they will have a new name on them.

OD:

They sent me a new credit card too, but I don't think I can activate it. They are going to make me go to an ATM.

Me:

Last time I got a new card I just called an 800 number to activate it.

OD:

Well the instructions say I have to go to an ATM. Here, right here it says that. They have this 800 number for questions but it doesn't say you can activate with that.

Me:

Well, go to an ATM.

OD:

I have issues with ATM's. I don't use them; they cost too much. I shouldn't have to pay to use my own money. I don't even know my pin number. Don't have one. Something that does not exist can't be stolen.

Me:

Just try the 800 number. I bet it will work.

OD:

And if they try to tell me I have to use an ATM I will just go to another bank. I'm the one loaning them money. If they don't do things the way I like, I will go find another bank and loan my money to them instead. Ain't no one can force me to use an ATM if I don't want to.

Labels: ATM, bank, change, conversation, credit card, money