speckleeyed

When I am bored, I do let the scammer talk and I pretend that OMG there is a virus on my computer how did it get there! And I cry and I tell the guy how upsetting this phone call is since my cat just died from eating too many twinkies. Oh how I miss Mr Texas. And what you need my credit card to fix my computer? My eyes are so watery from all this crying I just don't think I can even read those tiny numbers right. Here let me give the phone to my husband and he can handle the rest while I go drink this bottle of wine in the shower.

Hello? This is Sargent Grimes with the FBI my wife just handed me the phone here and her wallet and walked off crying towards the bathroom with a bottle of wine, what the hell did you say to her?

At this point if they are still on the phone, my husband "figures out" they're a scam and demands to speak to the supervisor and then they hang up.

I was a "puller" in a distribution center for NAPA and they did the same thing. However I was regularly in first or 2nd place each day. I was working there to pay my way through college. There was always overtime available and my base pay was around $15 an hour so time and a half was amazing.

For employees who were on the bottom on average at a weekly rate twice in a row they were given a verbal warning. If they failed to pick up the slack they were given a written warning the following week. After that they were fired.

I don't think it's very fair. There should be a minimum scan rate and if you fall below it after a probationary period then you should be subject to consequences up to and including termination. Otherwise everyone could be doing amazingly well and you just have to fire someone who's doing well because those are the rules.

My uncle, a dentist, has such an amazing practice and neither of his kids and none of his dozens of nieces or nephews wanted to go into dental school... he got to partner with an elderly dentist for a few years and then for several years opened his own location about 8 miles away and worked in both offices and then closed down the first office as the other guy had retired some time ago and left uncle with all his patients. Now about a decade ago he rebuilt his office within walking distance from his huge house and he only works 4 days a week and takes tons of vacations. It's the life!

So seriously, we have ooma, we have put our number on the do not call list. We pay the regular taxes and fees and that ends up to be a couple dollars a month so

1. Am I correct to assume we are considered a landline?
2. I donated blood once 3 years ago and asked the red cross to stop calling me because I get sick often and donated during a rare long period of wellness but they call and hang up and call and hang up and call again sometimes just because I have o negative! Isn't this illegal? I've told them they are harassing me and to stop calling.
3. There's some scam company that calls saying they work for "windows" and have detected a virus on my computer. I know they are liars and trying to scam money out of me, can you stop those people?

My 6th grade daughter tests advanced in math but continually gets low grades for not turning in her work. We do real math at home like having her help with on the spot math in the grocery store. We took a trip last week and used a paper map and had her calculate distance and based on average speed figure how long til we reach our destination. We are doing home repairs and she is helping us with the math... we don't need her help, but it's good to show her it's useful. I cook from scratch so when she loves something I've made, we recreate it and she helps me come up with the recipe for it.

Any advice? Her teachers, her dad and I are at our wits end with her. I can't do the work for her and I refuse to turn it in for her when she does it.