From fork-admin@xent.com Mon Oct 7 20:37:02 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.example.com Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 290C316F16 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 20:37:02 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 07 Oct 2002 20:37:02 +0100 (IST) Received: from xent.com ([64.161.22.236]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g97JOmK13925 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 20:24:49 +0100 Received: from lair.xent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AE5E2940D6; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 12:21:03 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: fork@example.com Received: from isolnetsux.techmonkeys.net (isolnetsux.techmonkeys.net [64.243.46.20]) by xent.com (Postfix) with SMTP id B46D32940D5 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 12:20:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 28151 invoked by uid 501); 7 Oct 2002 19:20:33 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Oct 2002 19:20:33 -0000 From: CDale To: bitbitch@magnesium.net Cc: fork@example.com Subject: Re: The absurdities of life. In-Reply-To: <3283394680.20021007145936@magnesium.net> Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: fork-admin@xent.com Errors-To: fork-admin@xent.com X-Beenthere: fork@example.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Friends of Rohit Khare List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:20:33 -0500 (CDT) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,KNOWN_MAILING_LIST, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE, T_NONSENSE_FROM_30_40,T_QUOTE_TWICE_1,USER_AGENT_PINE version=2.50-cvs X-Spam-Level: It was a kick when an apt manager kept mailing me a notice that I owed them .08. I just waited to see how many times they'd mail me a notice. 7 times by the time I left and paid them the .08. Funny thing was, I lived right behind the office where it was mailed from. (: Cindy On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 bitbitch@magnesium.net wrote: > > > So I get a check from Pac Bell today (SBC as they're called now). > Turns out, they went to the trouble of printing out, signing, sealing > and stamping a check just to refund me for a whole $0.33. > > They easily spent more than this just getting the materials together. > Why the hell do companies bother to do this crap? I mean, isn't there > a bottom line in terms of cost effectiveness? I don't think I missed > the .33, but I sure as hell would have appreciated lower rates in lieu > of being returned pennies. > > I'm truly stuck on this though. I don't know whether to frame the > check, burn it, or cash it in. Maybe I should find a way to return to > sender, so they have to spend -more- money on giving me my .33 dues. > > > Does .33 even buy anything anymore? Funny bit of it, is I couldn't > even make a phone call these days. > > *boggled* > BB. > > -- "I don't take no stocks in mathematics, anyway" --Huckleberry Finn