as they had seven-hour-old footage of Russians doing gymnastics badly to show you

This happens to my Chase card all the time it’s so freaking annoying because I forget to update my card # online then get all confused when my amazon order doesn’t go through.

I’d rather run into these problems than not. I’m on my third account with Chase because they keep having to close them after some data breach resulted in my card getting cloned. Since then, they’ve been hypersensitive about fraud and almost any kind of unusual charge throws up an alert or gets declined.

Agreed. Having a card declined became way less embarrassing after working retail for a while. It happens to literally everybody, for all sorts of reasons (and sometimes seemingly no reason at all).

Hah. I’ve had cards frozen by fraud protection for trying to make purchases at stores *in the freaking suburbs*. Some of them will send email notifications asking you to call. One of my cards has a pretty great process where you just have to click a link in an email acknowledging it’s OK activity. Some cards/accounts…

Agreed. I work for a credit card company. It happens all the time and for a million reasons that don’t include you being a deadbeat. One time a card I had with my own company was declined. When I called in later to check it was because the post office had returned a statement. At that time part of my job included…

As a person who worked in different types of stores for ten years: This is not as embarrassing as people think it is. It happens, literally, every day. It doesn’t always mean your credit is bad or that you ran out of money. Try another card or come back later, people do it all the time.

Do you know what I find interesting about this, Rich? As a gendered and queered analysis of your piece...

Further- where I grew up the Fire Department would come out, throw a meter on the hydrant and fill your pool in a few hours. Then they hand you a bill- or not, if you were say, paying cash?

The weird thing is that most cities are more than happy to give you a permit to access hydrant water for things that need a lot of it (not necessarily dumpster pools). I guess the “illegally” part was what bothered them.

Yeah, I expected this was going to be all about health department stuff because the water wasn’t chlorinated to pool standards and inspected.

Which makes me wonder why they spend 90% of the memo talking about closing or tapping the hydrants illegally.

Little known fact, you can’t REALLY dive into coins like Scrooge McDuck. It would actually kill you.

So what they are saying is that if you can fill it up without using a hydrant... game on.

She looks really sharp in that first picture. I’m surprised that her boss had a problem with that.

I have to wear polyester wool uniform about 75% of my life, so for ONE WEEK I was going to a seminar and I didn’t have to, but I also needed new clothing due to that whole uniform wearing thing. I figured if I didn’t have to wear synthetic fibers, I wasn’t going to. Especially since this was in Potomac Virginia.

They stick around long enough and are good enough at the job they end up managing that whoever overseeing things decides it’s “time they were rewarded” with a manager position, regardless of any actual managerial or people skills they may have.

What blows me away — in addition to all the other reasons outlined by Alison Green — is that the manager never offers to come in early and cover for her. When I was a manager, I would stay late with employees to help them finish earlier and get out of the office. Or I’d come in early to help them if they needed it.…

You’ve been very lucky with your bosses if this doesn’t ring true to you.

What real man disses on a Blazer??! You are very wise. Any dude driving a Smart Car is definitely a moron.