Apparently, after I explicitly told National Fuel to cut off service to my apartment on Richmond on Nov. 1st, they didn't stop billing me.
In fact, they pretty much kept on billing me until Dec. 14th. So between Nov. 1st and now (my last and hopefully final bill from the old place), I've been paying/owing those idiots $300 for the privilege of heating the old place I no longer live in. And they say they "have no record of a cut-off request".
I am so unbelievably pissed right now.
Why can't any utility company in Buffalo get anything right? And where is the copious amounts of money that we pay them going that they can't fix the most basic website/computer/customer service problems?
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02/07/2008 13:42 #43231
I officially hate all Buffalo utilitiesCategory: corporate nonsense
01/30/2008 16:10 #43097
ObservationCategory: filler
Clicking Paul's snowflakes.
Like digital bubble wrap
Strangely addictive.
Like digital bubble wrap
Strangely addictive.
jbeatty - 01/30/08 22:30
Some things are best summed up in haiku format
Some things are best summed up in haiku format
mrdeadlier - 01/30/08 16:43
I hate them but only because it means it's snowing outside.
I hate them but only because it means it's snowing outside.
news - 01/30/08 16:35
The new site has faster tinier ones, so it will be more challenging :)
The new site has faster tinier ones, so it will be more challenging :)
01/29/2008 11:13 #43078
Work SuccessCategory: programming
I have discovered one of the deep, dark, ancient secrets of my predecessors at work: how they generated bar codes.
This occasion calls for a beer. Too bad my throat's sore and I can't eat/drink anything.
This occasion calls for a beer. Too bad my throat's sore and I can't eat/drink anything.
carolinian - 01/29/08 15:32
I think it was Bedouin Soundclash
:::link:::
They're coming to Buffalo Feb. 23. I'm so psyched.
I think it was Bedouin Soundclash
:::link:::
They're coming to Buffalo Feb. 23. I'm so psyched.
museumchick - 01/29/08 14:37
Congrats on the work stuff.
Hey, what was that cool band that you played for me on Passover? I wanted to check out their songs.
Congrats on the work stuff.
Hey, what was that cool band that you played for me on Passover? I wanted to check out their songs.
01/23/2008 13:24 #42999
Board GameCategory: funny
It makes me chuckle, especially since I've ended up literally playing the game backwards, moving from Raleigh, then seeing Lance diamond the first week I got here, to seeing the American side of Niagara Falls, and finally looking for someone cheap to live.
01/09/2008 12:48 #42806
Macworld Hump Day RantCategory: computers
(This was originally a comment on (e:jim)'s Macworld journal post, but it started turning in article material when I started ruminating on my current station in life).
I am a 40 hr/wk mac/Cocoa programmer and I've never been able to afford the time and money to go to either Macworld or, more importantly, WWDC (Apple's yearly Worldwide Developer Conference for mac programmers). My current employer certain won't pay for me to go to WWDC, because the previous programmers turned down the offer for the company to pay them to go to it (and then proceeded not to renew the company's Apple Developer Program), which pretty much shut the door for me when I came after them.
The only opportunity I ever had to get a free ticket for WWDC(which costs $1500+) was when I was in college working in my mac programming work-study job, and I had to pass that up because it was summer school and I couldn't take time away from the last class I needed to graduate.
In short, I think I hold the monopoly on (e:strip) of sucktastic experiences missing Apple conferences, unless I happen to share a duopoly in that industry with (e:zobar).
Why am I complaining? Because it's hump day, that's why. I'm allowed to gripe like a 3 yr/old and shake my fist at the world, as well as having delusions of grandeur like starting my own mac developers conference in Buffalo and starting a Buffalo chapter of CocoaHeads where I am the sole member, the president, and still find time to call for my own impeachment.
Time for positives now. I:
Am employed
Have a decent-paying, fairly challenging job
In fairly decent health
Am well/over-fed
Have people who love me
I am living a life that 95% of the world's population can only dream about
Will get to see my son when he pops out in 4 months
Okay, so there probably are more important things in my life than going to nerd conferences and I'm making way too big a deal about missing them.
I am a 40 hr/wk mac/Cocoa programmer and I've never been able to afford the time and money to go to either Macworld or, more importantly, WWDC (Apple's yearly Worldwide Developer Conference for mac programmers). My current employer certain won't pay for me to go to WWDC, because the previous programmers turned down the offer for the company to pay them to go to it (and then proceeded not to renew the company's Apple Developer Program), which pretty much shut the door for me when I came after them.
The only opportunity I ever had to get a free ticket for WWDC(which costs $1500+) was when I was in college working in my mac programming work-study job, and I had to pass that up because it was summer school and I couldn't take time away from the last class I needed to graduate.
In short, I think I hold the monopoly on (e:strip) of sucktastic experiences missing Apple conferences, unless I happen to share a duopoly in that industry with (e:zobar).
Why am I complaining? Because it's hump day, that's why. I'm allowed to gripe like a 3 yr/old and shake my fist at the world, as well as having delusions of grandeur like starting my own mac developers conference in Buffalo and starting a Buffalo chapter of CocoaHeads where I am the sole member, the president, and still find time to call for my own impeachment.
Time for positives now. I:
Am employed
Have a decent-paying, fairly challenging job
In fairly decent health
Am well/over-fed
Have people who love me
I am living a life that 95% of the world's population can only dream about
Will get to see my son when he pops out in 4 months
Okay, so there probably are more important things in my life than going to nerd conferences and I'm making way too big a deal about missing them.
museumchick - 01/10/08 08:23
Maybe someday you can start up your own mac developers conference. I think it sounds possible.
I don't know about the whole CocoaHeads thing. I'm not even sure what that is, really.
Maybe someday you can start up your own mac developers conference. I think it sounds possible.
I don't know about the whole CocoaHeads thing. I'm not even sure what that is, really.
For future reference I think to have it turned off you have to be there and someone has to show up to get a final reading of what you are at. That is the way it works to get it turned on. I could be wrong about that but I think that is how it works.