A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work

I had some questions about the Netbank → ING transition so I called them. A non-robot human answered the call so quickly that I hadn't yet pulled up the page in my notes with my questions on it. This surprised me, and if she hadn't used a corporate slogan in her greeting I would have assumed that I dialed the wrong number. To buy time, I told her this. She laughed.

That's a good first impression, that is.

And they're not giving it back to me.

What happened: the bill payment I set up back with MBNA was depositing $100 into my CC account at the end of every month. By BoA reckoning, this is always late, because payment is due a day or two before that, and payments made between that date and the start of the next month don't count towards the next month's minimums. Therefore, I was late every single month since they started keeping track in October, despite me giving them more money than they were asking for every time.

The nice lady I talked to only smiled and shrugged at me about it.

Fuckers. Never use BoA. I wouldn't be if they hadn't bought the company I fuckin signed up with. Is there any other CC company in the USA at this point?

One day after they stopped accepting new QuickPost deliveries, UPS's webpage for tracking the envelopes stopped returning useful information. Two days later, it now returns only internal error messages. It's as if desperate UPS tribesmen, sensing doom, looted the joint at midnight on Nov. 30, and it's been standing blasted and empty since. Every so often another broken shelf crashes into the basement.

Because, you know, there's no chance that there are were still pending deliveries in the system when they stopped accepting new ones.

Customer-hating assholes. If I ever have a clear choice later between UPS and other carriers, I know what I'll be doing.

Something like $1,000 of my money is still unspoken for, so going to try phoning people now. I've actually been having a pretty good day. Been knocking a lot of pins down on on volity.biz, actually. More later.

Edit Ha ha ha! According to NetBank's website, they're refusing to even open QuickPost envelopes received after Nov. 30. Jesus Christ, what happened between those guys? Sounds messy. But the thing is, I didn't bother taking a receipt when I dropped the envelope off at the UPS store last week, so nobody has any proof beyond my word that I totally did send it off in time.

I just wasted 15 minutes of my life on hold at NetBank; I'll try again later tonight. I have a feeling that this isn't going to go anywhere except straight up my ass, though. Bloop

Two months after getting started at ITA and I'll probably have to take another $1,000+ loan from the credit card again just to make rent. Un fuckin believable.

I may be having some troubles workin this contractor thingy, my friends. I don't know.