We got this notice in the mail today from my oil company -
Obviously spit out by some computer. The wife and I had a pretty good laugh about it and the real person customer service we called had no explanation! -Brian
It’s simple Brian. Just send them a check for $0.00 ! 
At least the person you talked to spoke English…
A few years ago a New York secretary got her monthly power bill for her 2 room apartment in the amount of $134,00.00. She came very close to having her power shut off for non-payment were it not for a local TV station picking up the story and airing it. Same old story, very hard to override the automated billing system.
Walt
And they think computers improve things like that.
Stand in line at the local Ace with a rattle can of paint.
Scanner doesn’t take.
Part number doesn’t take when typed in by the gal.
No one knows the price.
They cans on either side are $2.99 each.
Wouldn’t this one be priced the same?
And so on…
…grinning…
Some times computers are crap. Go back and get rid of them and a lot of headaches go away. Later RJD
Pukers is neat when dey work good!! And Brian tell em you got a coupon for $0.00 so now yer even!! Hee hee Regal
R.J. DeBerg said:Not only that, it would force everyone to slow down to such a degree, it would be revolutionary! :lol: :lol:
Some times computers are crap. Go back and get rid of them and a lot of headaches go away. Later RJD
Brian Donovan said:
We got this notice in the mail today from my oil company -Obviously spit out by some computer. The wife and I had a pretty good laugh about it and the real person customer service we called had no explanation!
-Brian
Got the hydro bill for the business the other day. Way out of wack, but it wasn’t a computer who read the meter incorrectly. Even the real-life person I spoke with agreed that it looked “fishy” when compared with our usual consumption.
Most problems with computers are created by humans. Computers only do what “we” tell them to do. Unfortunately if you have troubles created by a computer it’s almost impossible to find the idiot responsible for causing it.
Jon.
Since computers, people no longer have to think.
Try going to a fast food joint and wait until the cashier rings up your sale, then hand them the coins to make the change an even dollar or fifty-cents and watch the show.
I love doing this. Just check your change so you aren’t short. Often the change is too much.
I like when you go to a hamburger place and ask for a hamburger with everything! Would you like cheese on
that? NO I didn’t order a cheesebuger!
While working over the Holiday one of our Cabins in the park almost burnt down. The reason: the person renting it decided to store the fire wood by leaning it against the wood stove that was hot. What is wrong with people.
I dunno, but they breed and they vote.
David Hill said:
Since computers, people no longer have to think.Try going to a fast food joint and wait until the cashier rings up your sale, then hand them the coins to make the change an even dollar or fifty-cents and watch the show.
I love doing this. Just check your change so you aren’t short. Often the change is too much.
Stopped into the liquor store by my LHS last week. Tab came to $30.96. I gave the clerk $41.01.
He looked confused until he typed the amount in.
-Brian
I get people asking me all the time if they can drill a hole in the bottom of their boat to let the water out. As David said - “they breed and they vote”.
I love to play ‘can you top this’, so here goes … a friend of mine, a volunteer fireman, told me this one. They responded to a house fire one night, a chimney fire. After it was put out they investigated and found that the home owner had recently built the chimney himself. And guess what, it had three sides made of brick, but, the fourth side was the plywood sheathing of the house. If they’d delayed responding just a little, the local gene pool might have been considerably improved.
Walt
You win. That’s good.