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Mont Blanc, Cross, etc
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Heading to work Friday and I come across the first garage sale of the weekend, just setting up. A box of pens, I pick through them:
6 Pens, 1 Mont Blanc, 4 Cross, 1 Schaeffer. "How Much?"... "A dollar?". I give him $10, it's all I have, there are limits to how badly I can take advantage of somebody.
Saturday morning, the promise of Friday's hit fresh in my glove-box, off early, there are a variety of sales to be hit. Tools, tools, some I need, but no place to store, and so I pass, some I need and I can't pass up on, 2 Dremel's for $6.00, 5 flashlights/headlamps, $10.00, an air-pistol, $10.00 - this for a colleague at work whom I have a business proposition for...
Chase PaymentTech
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At the restaurant this is what we use to process debit and credit transactions.
Sometimes it works.
Lately it hasn't been.
And the owner, calling technical support, 2, 3 times a day, an hour or more a call before they tell us the problem is "fixed".
It never is. The Technical agents helping us with the issue, clearly clueless, every call begins the same way, asking for Merchant ID, terminal ID, despite having provided all this information on file from not even an hour before. The owner refuses to get irate. I'm not bound by any such scruples and having tired of turning away what few customers we have with a "cash only" policy (because we can't process debit/credit) - I'm getting really pissed off.
These people, you have to work to give them money, you should feel grateful they've lowered themselves to collecting the $3,000 - $4,000 a month they collect in merchant fees, really, they're better than this, they're doing US a favor providing this "service", ... every successive CSR providing conflicting suggestions to the one previous...
I'm listening to it, not having a working debit/credit machine fucks up your day big time, and - when it works, briefly, only to have the whole boondoggle begin again a few transactions later...steam is jetting out my ears, there's a time to demand escalations and we're overdue, we're only half busy but if we were busy we'd be right fucked...
It reminds me of Shaw Cable, the same "commitment to customer service", and I'm lobbying for a cash machine in the restaurant, instead of paying for an unreliable "Chase Paymentech" we can be paid for providing a reliable service...
The Locker - May 28th
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Sunday morning I wake up in Glade, time to visit, lightly clean out and organize the locker. Put some stuff in, take some stuff out.
This is a big task, but most certainly the best garage sale I've been to in a while. Candlesticks, art supplies, easels, rocks, more art supplies, and I'd forgotten but a formidable amount of Stormy's artwork. I mean a formidable amount, it had slipped my mind how prolific he was.
And, i hate to confess but my storage of these priceless artworks is less than archival and I'll be damned by all of history if I don't find a better way to lay these boxes all up.
Anyways, 4 hours of this unpacking/repacking the locker and I'm done, to look at it you would think nothing had been accomplished but I need a space to unpack, discovering bales of forgotten clothing, shoes, shirts, trousers, I need to come here with a mind to start cleaning all this stuff out, leaking stuff into the trash, how I have this much stuff - in this the tiniest of lockers, is beyond me, and I'm always pleased to discover some long lost treasure I'd forgotten about - here it is! Wow, I'd buy that....wait, I already have...
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