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From fork-admin@xent.com Mon Oct 7 20:37:02 2002
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7 Oct 2002 19:20:33 -0000
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From: CDale <cdale@techmonkeys.net>
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To: bitbitch@magnesium.net
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Cc: fork@spamassassin.taint.org
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Subject: Re: The absurdities of life.
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Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:20:33 -0500 (CDT)
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It was a kick when an apt manager kept mailing me a notice that I owed
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them .08. I just waited to see how many times they'd mail me a notice. 7
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times by the time I left and paid them the .08. Funny thing was, I lived
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right behind the office where it was mailed from. (:
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Cindy
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On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 bitbitch@magnesium.net wrote:
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> So I get a check from Pac Bell today (SBC as they're called now).
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> Turns out, they went to the trouble of printing out, signing, sealing
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> and stamping a check just to refund me for a whole $0.33.
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> They easily spent more than this just getting the materials together.
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> Why the hell do companies bother to do this crap? I mean, isn't there
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> a bottom line in terms of cost effectiveness? I don't think I missed
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> the .33, but I sure as hell would have appreciated lower rates in lieu
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> of being returned pennies.
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> I'm truly stuck on this though. I don't know whether to frame the
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> check, burn it, or cash it in. Maybe I should find a way to return to
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> sender, so they have to spend -more- money on giving me my .33 dues.
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>
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> Does .33 even buy anything anymore? Funny bit of it, is I couldn't
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> even make a phone call these days.
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>
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> *boggled*
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> BB.
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--
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"I don't take no stocks in mathematics, anyway" --Huckleberry Finn
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