It's Mondaying all over the place
Nov. 17th, 2003 03:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterSo. I get up in the morning, get dressed and all that, head out the door, get in the car, thinking about breakfast. I'm halfway up the block before I remember that I was supposed to be eating the remainder of the dump cake for breakfast. I head back and eat it and enjoy it.
I head out to go to the ATM to get some money out before work...and find that my debit card is not in my wallet. The last purchase I can remember making was at Amazon...so I head back to my apartment, thinking to find the card sitting forgotten on my desk. I spend several frantic minutes searching. It isn't there, and I have to head out for work. No problem, I think, I can call Commerce Bank and perhaps get it cancelled or something...I activate the browser on my cell to find the number in the yellow pages...and I find that AT&T's instituted a new system of mmode webpages today, which will supposedly make it "easier to find" everything. True to form, the yellow and white pages are nowhere to be found. Even playing around with it between calls after I got to work, I still couldn't find them. I had to use the phonebook link at my station to search for Commerce Bank and get the number there. (The first time I dialed, it just rang and rang. I looked again, and found I'd copied the number down wrong. Yay me.) It did occur to me that I actually had used the card one more time after the Amazon order...when I'd gone to the ATM and got cash out on Sunday as a precursor to shopping. And I seemed to remember wondering where my card was at the end of the transaction, and thinking I must have already gotten it. So I resolved to call the bank on my first break and find out if I had actually left it there.
10 minutes before my first break, I got a call from a fellow with four different accounts, one of which wasn't showing up properly. I had to call our account installation department to check on it. I was on hold there for over an hour, while the "calls waiting" display on the wall cheerfully said the wait time ranged from about two to about sixteen minutes. By the time I got finished, and got finished calling the customer back to let him know what was going on...well, I'll just say that five minutes after the much-belated break I'm on now ends, it'll be time to go to lunch. And, as an addendum, when I did get through to Commerce Bank, I found that I won't know whether the card was retrieved from the ATM (or whether someone came through the line and took it before the ATM could swallow it again for safekeeping, in which case I need to get it cancelled right away) until tomorrow morning.
It's Mondaying like crazy around here. I wonder how else it will Monday before the day is over?
I head out to go to the ATM to get some money out before work...and find that my debit card is not in my wallet. The last purchase I can remember making was at Amazon...so I head back to my apartment, thinking to find the card sitting forgotten on my desk. I spend several frantic minutes searching. It isn't there, and I have to head out for work. No problem, I think, I can call Commerce Bank and perhaps get it cancelled or something...I activate the browser on my cell to find the number in the yellow pages...and I find that AT&T's instituted a new system of mmode webpages today, which will supposedly make it "easier to find" everything. True to form, the yellow and white pages are nowhere to be found. Even playing around with it between calls after I got to work, I still couldn't find them. I had to use the phonebook link at my station to search for Commerce Bank and get the number there. (The first time I dialed, it just rang and rang. I looked again, and found I'd copied the number down wrong. Yay me.) It did occur to me that I actually had used the card one more time after the Amazon order...when I'd gone to the ATM and got cash out on Sunday as a precursor to shopping. And I seemed to remember wondering where my card was at the end of the transaction, and thinking I must have already gotten it. So I resolved to call the bank on my first break and find out if I had actually left it there.
10 minutes before my first break, I got a call from a fellow with four different accounts, one of which wasn't showing up properly. I had to call our account installation department to check on it. I was on hold there for over an hour, while the "calls waiting" display on the wall cheerfully said the wait time ranged from about two to about sixteen minutes. By the time I got finished, and got finished calling the customer back to let him know what was going on...well, I'll just say that five minutes after the much-belated break I'm on now ends, it'll be time to go to lunch. And, as an addendum, when I did get through to Commerce Bank, I found that I won't know whether the card was retrieved from the ATM (or whether someone came through the line and took it before the ATM could swallow it again for safekeeping, in which case I need to get it cancelled right away) until tomorrow morning.
It's Mondaying like crazy around here. I wonder how else it will Monday before the day is over?
