A minor thing but Iâm so fucking sick of getting text messages like this:
I am now getting some 10 of these per week from different scammers claiming to be AT&T - always with the same kind of broken English apologizing for an outage or billing issue telling me to click on some sketchy link.
At this point âAT&Tâ might as well make me CEO of the company with all the downtime and compensation and gifts âtheyâ have been trying to give me these past couple of months.
Fucking scammers.
ETA ooh hereâs a good one:
It would also be awesome if AT&T didnât make reporting spam SMS messages such a pain in the ass too.
Iâm so paranoid about anything I receive from my utilities. SoCal Edison sends payment confirmation from SCE (all caps), but they recently changed their âbill is readyâ notification to all lower case (sce). I refuse to click on it.
Ever since the pandemic started, Iâve been getting messages about upset customers using my Square payment system. I donât even have a Square accountâŚ
InfrastructureâŚ
I fear this âmanyâ in China are not wrong.
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Just FTR, the exit polls in Germany show exactly what was to be feared.
Currently, the openly neo-fascist AfD is predicted to gain 11% of the vote, translating to 87 seats in the Bundestag.
Also, conservatives (which, just FTR, would probably be thought of as socialist in the US, but thatâs just a sidenoteâŚ) are on par with the SPD (you know, democratic socialists, which would probably be thought of as left wing socialists in the US). This is bad news for everyone unter the age of, say, 40.
This is not going to keep me awake at night, because it was to be expected - but Fuck Today.
Iâd expect this in Skyrim, not BC.
someone had to say it.
The church at Todoque in La Palma was just destroyed by the lava. Up to today, the lava had stopped just over the street. The church was located just off-camera and behind the pink building, over from the reno project from my earlier post. 
Getting ready for a âfunâ day where I have to send notification of a decision that will result in a grievance and likely a lawsuit (against me). It wouldnât have mattered which way the decision wentâeither a âyesâ or a ânoâ was going to generate an extremely negative outcome for me as the person conveying the decision. So, Iâm getting ready to hit âsendâ on an e-mail that will set in motion weeks or possibly months of hell.
ETA: Clarifying
Iâm sure youâve already done this, but have you run your notification past the companyâs legal department, HR department, your best friend whoâs a lawyerâŚanything like that?
The first two, plus my department head, plus that personâs boss. To be sure, this probably wonât have any real effect on me outside of the [very real] stress, sleeplessness, and grouchiness.
The person to whom this e-mail is going is someone with a long history of harassment via legal threats and grievances. And who has tenure, of course.
So sorry. Youâve done all you can do. Will your employer have your back?
They say they do, of course. lol Iâve covered my bases by following existing policies, and by getting folks in HR and legal to tell me, via e-mail, that it looks like I followed all the correct policies and Handbook provisions. What that translates to in real life is anyoneâs guess, of course.
