Life in Mono...

Done and Dusted...

THATS IT I HAD ENOUGH. Yesterday was the last straw. Telstra was suppose to come in and fix my line last night and they canceled on me. I was so freaking angry that I was screaming on my mobile to the girl on the other side while I was walking to the train station. I told them if they are not going to fix my line by today, I will cancel my account with them. And you know what? I did. I had to speak to a whole lot of people before I could cancel my account. They wanted me to pay $299.00 connection fee. I told them that they must be joking because I DID NOT GET A BLOODY CONNECTION.

Its like every single person that I speak to seems to be speaking DOWN AT me as if I am stupid. She said that I have been dialing a 13 number from my phone. I asked her, "Can you please tell me the number of your Faults line?" and she said "132203". Then I asked her, "UHUH... and what does it start with?"  She kept quiet. HELLO??? How dumb and stupid can you be to not even recognise that that is your company's fault line? Jeezus. I told her that I am not going to pay that $299.00 fee because I have not been connected ever since I applied for it.

She took at least 20 minutes talking to the faults department to try and confirm that. And when she came back she apologised and said that she can see that I reported that fault since I started my account and told me that I do not have to pay for the connection fee. Well....who is the dumb one now? Sometimes with these big large company, who is only after profit, you have to stand your ground and say no. I told her that I would bring the matter to court if Telstra insisted that I pay that $299.00.

So I am so happy that I canceled my account with them and I signed up to Wireless internet that do not require a telephone line to connect to the Internet and its with our old provider. YIPPIE.

SO SCREW YOU TELSTRA and your CRAPPY and DUMB service team. I am also writing to the complaints department and the Telecommunications Ombudsman.

GOOD RIDDENCE.

Anti Climactic Lies...

Ok. At this point, I am pretty pissed at Telstra. I am sick of calling them up every single day and asking about when my phone service will be up and running properly. Every single time I speak to someone they do not know what to tell me.

Yesterday, I received a text message telling me that my case is solved and there is no more faults. I was pretty happy that FINALLY its all over. I can connect to the internet once again. Yeay. I got home M saw a card stuck on to our front door and I went to pick it up. It said that "We do not need to come on to your premises to fix the phone lines as everything is done" OK GOOD.

BUT, as soon as I put my bag down on the floor and picked up the cordless phone to see if the number 1234 5678 comes up on my mobile, it did not have a RING TONE! BLOODY HELL. WHAT NOW? I had no choice but to call them up using my phone line, I told the girl on the other side of the phone that I will be making a claim from Telstra for using my mobile to call them. She asked me "Is your mobile with Telstra?" I asnwered her "ARE YOU KIDDING? WITH THE BRILLIANT SERVICE THAT I GET FROM TELSTRA?" She then suggested that she will call my mobile and asked me for the number and I told her that I am sure that she will have it on the system because I have called every single day.

GRRRRRR..... it turns out the stupid technician needs to come in to my premises to check the internal lines. She read me something about charging $105.00 and I told her she must be crazy because why would I pay for something that is not even my fault. It was brilliantly working for 1 week and then it just decided to change phone number the next without any warning and we are living in a new house. HOW CAN IT POSSIBLY BE OUR FAULT. Idiots.

She said that she will put in for a workman to come in WEDNESDAY evening from 5-7pm. GREAT. I have to rush back and wait for the fcuker to come and I KNOW that he will not turn up. If he does not turn up I swear to God that the next person picking up my phone on Wednesday evening will have an earful from me.

I called up today to check if a technician has picked up the job and the person on the other line was talking DOWN TO ME AS IF I AM AN IDIOT for not understanding that there is a lot of work to be done. UMMMMM....Owh I do understand that you do have a lot of jobs to do Mr Smarty-Pants-who-claims-that-he-was-once-a-technician-himself. IF you guys got it fixed the first time around there won't be a lot of jobs now is there. He said that the technician should have left a card saying that he would need to come into the premises to check the internal lines. UMMMM.....either the technician is stupid and do not know how to fill in a card or the technician is stupid and left the wrong card in the wrong house.

I am frustrated. REALLY REALLY FRUSTRATED. Telstra is the leading provider for telecommunications in Australia. They should be a leader in their field. They own most of the telecommunication lines through out Australia AND THIS IS WHAT I GET FROM THEM? Most of the people I know will avoid using Telstra at any cost. In this case. I have no choice. If this does not resolve by tomorrow, I will make a formal complaint to the Telecommunications Ombudsman of Australia. I have the names of the people that I spoke with, the time and the stupid card.

Can you tell that I am really pissed?

A heads up...

The lovely Mlle A sent me these links.

Looks like I am not the only one that got this. A warning for Gmail and Hotmail users.

And here I thought GMail is safe. Nothing is safe anymore. Gah...

Went Fishing....

Grrrrr....... some idiot out there thought that it would be funny to  use my email and spam everyone in my address book AND DELETE EVERYONE IN IT AFTER THAT!!!

My dear friends, if you have received that email with the tagline "hello" from me please trash it in the bin. Its not from me and I am so sorry that you have been sent that email.

I have reported it to the Gmail team and changed my password.

I am sooooo sooooo sorry.

And thanks to the lovely Stef for letting me know someone went phishing with my email.

Note to the stupid little fuckwit that went phishing and spamming and then deleting my address book "I hope you and your computer crashed". Like I said, I believe in Karma and she will bite back.

Keep QUIET!!!

Gahhh... I don't know why some people a.k.a my neighbour who lives downstairs, have no decency to keep the music down after 10pm!!!! I hope the Crazy Cat Lady calls the Police to shut them up. They are an agro bunch too. Nana heard them fighting in their house last week. GAHHHH.... Bogans! (they are the equivalent to White Trash for those of you in the US)

Idoits...

                   

I came home today with disturbing news. Will let you guys know in a bit. All I can say is I hope those punks die in a car crash.

Owh yah... I found this Spell with Flickr tool via How about Orange.

Abused...

Feli: Good Morning LSWA. Feli speaking.

Crazy Lady: Business Settlements. NOW!

Feli: Hold on please..

CL: NO NOW!

Feli: Hold on please...

*puts her on hold*

*Jen comes to my desk....*

Jen: Its that Crazy Lady isn't it? She was having a go at me a moment ago when I told her to ring your number.

Feli: Owh Gawd...

*picks up the phone*

CL: DO YOU WORK FOR TELSTRA? DO YOU THINK I AM MADE FROM MONEY? YOUR AD IN THE YELLOW PAGES IS MISLEADING. I WANT BUSINESS SETTLEMENTS NOW...

Feli: Hold on please...

CL: NO I WANT TO SPEAK TO SOME ONE NOW...

*puts her on hold*

Feli: Sorry Mam no one is here to give you a quote.

*At this point the crazy lady started to abused me and I put down the phone. Five minutes later the phone rings again*

CL: Business Settlements (in a clamer voice hoping that I would be fooled)

Feli: Hold on please (I was thinking do you think that I am stupid? I know its you again)

*puts her on hold*

Feli: Sorry mam the lawyer that normally does business settlements is in a meeting

CL: WTF are you guys doing? You bastard and arsehole make me wait so long on the phone blah blah blah........*click*

Yep I slam the phone down on her. This happened at 1030 this morning.

Its amazes me how people can be so rude to someone over the phone when they just rang in. Who does she think she is? The Queen of England? I spoke to Jen after that and I we could not fathom why she was so rude. Maybe she got up at the wrong side of the bed. Geez...I pity the poor settlements team that will be doing her settlement.

You know what I wanted to say to her when she was abusing me? I wanted to tell her if something crawled up her back side and made her Queen of the World for the day.

P/s: When you make calls to the a Landline from another landline or the public phone here, in Aussie Land, it will only cost you $0.40 per call and you can talk till the cows come home and it will still be $0.40. So I dont know what was she complaining about.

F*&kin Pissed....

Don't you just hate people who are so up themselves? People who THINKS that they know what they are doing but in actual fact NOT?

Already one hour into my work day I got told off by a banker, spoke to a finance broker who obviously don't know whats going on (it is his job to KNOW whats going on he got paid a good sum of commission from these clients. So he should KNOW) and the best bit, STUPID finance broker thinks he knows whats going on because owh owh owh HE HAS BEEN DOING THIS FOR 40 fuckin years!!

The scenario:

"Clients are buying a million dollar home. Clients go to to STUPID finance broker for a loan. Clients do not understand English that well so, clients' daughter is doing the talking for clients. STUPID finance broker stuffed up paperwork. Clients not able to settle because STUPID finance broker did not explain to clients of what needs to be done so clients is one month overdue for settlement. Therefore has to pay a month's worth of Penalties.

I called up the STUPID finance broker (BIG big mistake I think) to ask where monies for the settlement is, Stupid said "What monies?" I said " What do you mean what monies?  Monies for the settlement. Stupid said "We do not give out monies until settlement is effected." I was confused. I said "Don't you need the monies to pay out the vendor so that the property will be handed over to us?" Stupid said "No. We WOULD NOT GIVE YOU THE MONIES UNTIL SETTLEMENT IS EFFECTED". I said "Do you know how settlements work? Don't you need the monies first?" Stupid said "I have been doing this for 40 years. How long have you been doing this?" I said "It doesn't not matter how long I have been doing this. I NEED THE MONIES to settle".

After a while trying to explain to Stupid who apparently have been doing this for 40 years, that I need the monies to go to settlement I told him I can no longer stand to speak to an IDIOT who don't know what he is doing and I will call up the client."

I just had to stop talking to Stupid because he was condescending and spoke to me in a very cocky manner. I think he is making up for something not so cocky. URGGHHH... that is twice this week already! I am thankful that this week is over and I can relax with a few glasses of wine tonight. I just want this week to be OVER.

For those of you in Australia and want to know where this Idiot who calls himself a 40 year experience Finance broker, drop me a comment and I will let you know what bank he is working for. Seriously, He is the most useless finance broker I have ever encountered. I hope he gets BAD karma for talking to me like that.

 

Some people

Ugh... I had the most horrible afternoon. I know I will sound like a blond bimbo but I don't care. I was in line to get a loaf of bread for the Big Fish (one of my many many afternoon errands), when this lady cut in front of me to get to this FREE bread samples that they have on the counter. She did not mutter an "Excuse me" or even looked at me. She just barged through me like I'm not there and in the processed stepped on my toes. Again no "Sorry" or an apologetic look. I was sick and tired of waiting for my turn so I went to another line because people kept cutting in front of me. So I went and stand behind this guy with three kids. Again the same lady with her shopping bags just CUT right in front of me again!!! I was so angry that she did that but then said nothing but gave her a my death stare from the back hoping that she could feel it.

She then proceed to make her order and buying her bread needs.This time I stood close to her (probably about half an arm's length) so that no one could cut in front of me again. The lady certainly took her time and the girl at the counter saw that I was giving the Lady dirty looks for taking her sweet time. The girl at the counter smiled at me and gave me a "Sorry look and I know she cut in front of you" look. So this Lady then leaned back to look at the pastry below the counter and bloody stepped on me AGAIN!! She nearly hit me in the face with her big HAIR and I held my hand up. It was a reflex thing and gently held her back. She turned around, I said SORRY sarcastically and she gave me a mean look. Well sorry LADY you stepped on me twice (I had my new shoes on too) cut in front of me twice and never said sorry or excuse me, you expect me to give you a huge smile? HELL NO. She kept rubbing her back as if to said that "What you did was painful" PLEASE. It was just a gentle tap. After buying her stuff she turned around and said "EXCUSE ME TSK". I gave her my "who cares?" look and went to the front counter to give my order ONLY TO BE CUT AGAIN BY ANOTHER OLD LADY!!!!

WHATS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE. UGHHHHH!!!!

Foul...

That is how my mood was for the past two days.Foul Foul Foul and forgetful. I thought it was going to be a good weekend with nothing planned turns out, I had to go to work for a few hours and everything seems to irritate me. Including the cat and M.

The only salvation that I got was going for a morning walk this morning with Nana and coffee with Tiff last night. Those two girls are my life savers.

We had to turn our clocks back an hour today and I didn't even know until this morning when I asked Nana that we had to turn our clock back this weekend and she said its already DONE. Meaning I was robbed an hour worth of sleep this morning. I woke up thinking it was 830 to cook breakfast only to realise that it was only 730!! Ackk!!

Anyways we had a good morning walk. I want to try and do this every Sunday if I can. It felt good. After walking I went back home and tried to get my hour nap when I woke up in horror. I HAD TO GO TO WORK AGAIN!! Its Sunday for fuck sake. Can't it wait. I went there yesterday so why do I have to go to work again today? And what do I get in payment? WINE. I don't even drink wine on a regular basis.

I did manage to clear my studio yesterday and also started on beading for orders to go to US.

I have a home inspection on Friday and I am no where near having a clean house.

FUCK FUCK FUCK...I WANT TO GO HOME.