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Teacher, student, avid crafter, and bibliophile. Too busy for my own good & loving it.

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Stealing, Phone Scams, and Pornography at Work = Lame

So to begin with, there is nothing in this blog that needs to be censored, despite the misleading title. I just wanted to talk a bit about my day, which began with getting to work at 6am, and reading amemo that let all employees know that someone (who has a key) snuck in on Christmas day. While there, they chose to use th boss' computer to look at and download porn. Awesome - not. At first I thought that perhaps someone thought it might be funny to do this as a prank, but it's really not that funny, and our boss is not someone who finds things like this funny. We're l;ucky we get to keep internet in the breakroom now. And why on Christmas? Apparentloy someone missed out on the true meaning of Christmas - which involves the birth of Jesus, and not the birth of crappy porn. Also, the amazing this is, it could only have been only have been one of three people, so it seems they might like to be caught. Lame - O.Needless to say, I am appalled, and was not thrilled to learn about some pervert so early in the morning.

On this same note, I was reminded today of how recently at work someone also stole from our tip money for the month. Which was not only awesome because it was Christmas time, but also becasue we were giving 10% of that money to prostate cancer research. So they stole from charity, and coworkers during the holidays -way to go! I am starting to deriously question what kind of people we have been hiring as of late. Though, I love them all, it seems they cn't all be trusted. Which is sad, since we have been like a little family in the past.

Now for the greatest part  of my story today. So, I get a call from a 407 area code after lunch. I answer, and this nice lady named Venissa starts telling me all a bout a promotion because of the magaizines I subscribe to. Now why must I always be polite and hear them out? She was very kind, and asked me about a taking a short survey, that involved asking what I doif I am in school, etc. Then it got scary -she had my name, address, and asked if I had a visa. Iknew we were gettingdeeper, but could not find an out. So her boss jumps on to see if she has been friendly since she is new this week. He begins asking me if there is a middle initial on my credit card, I said no, and then he wanted an expiration date. So I asked about what kind of fee, and when it would be charged, saying I didn;t have money right now - and he just hung up. I immediatly put the number into google, and if you click the hyperlinked title it will take you to what I found. Guess what? A phone scam, looking for credit card numbers. I found this whole thing most frightening, becasue they don't give you an out of the conversation. Also, they had a lot of information about me, which leaves me wondering, where did they get it? In future, I will just hang up, but they were so nice, and misleading. I knew when the talk of credit cards came about, that I was not going to do this. However, after it all. I just want to call back and say, why can;t you get a real job? Why do you have to be so nice, when you are doing something so incredibly not nice. And, how can I report this? How can these people be stopped? Putting a gripe on the internet is not enough. There are simple minded people out there that would hae taken that bate. I knew we were in trouble when they could not even name the magazines I subscribed to; would someone else notice this as a danger sign?

1 comment:

  1. Hello Laurel
    Thanks for visiting GPB and welcome to blog land. Hope you have a wonderful time here.
    Cheers
    Loani

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