Miscellaneous Rants

911paramedic - Who… AM I?

 I tried to get an earnings statement thing-a-ma-bob from them for a student loan, so I called and asked if they could send one and they replied “That SSN isn’t attached to that name.”

After about ten minutes of talking (and She kept saying “I’m sorry, I cant say anything about that users returns because they aren’t yours.”) We finally got back to a point where I am on a return with that SSN, along with my ex-wife. So now, the number is hers even though she remarried and that name doesn’t even really exist anymore. (Jane Doe, changed to Jane Smith when she married me, changed back to Jane Doe after divorce.) It’s attached to “Jane Smith”.

I said I’ve been filing returns, getting licenses, LOOKING AT MY SS CARD, etc. She just kept saying “It’s not yours.”, so I ask “What is my number then?” (wondering if I now have the ex’s) She said there are too many Joe Smiths (not my real name, just to follow the example) to know.

So I go to the SS office, which was really fun, and got a certified letter from them saying that was my SSN, and they even sent me a new card.

I take that to the IRS office, along with my divorce papers that has a copy of my ex’s drivers license and SS card on one page. The man punches it into the computer and mumbles “Hmmm…” and that’s it. I start asking him questions like I did on the phone and he gives me the same “It’s not your SSN so I can’t say anything further.” routine.

Fvck!

But he sees that it “belongs to somebody else” and that he will send all this information (and he didn’t want a copy of her drivers license and SS card, wtf) to the main office to get it straightened out.

Yesterday I get a letter addressed to my ex from the IRS. It says “Dear Jane Smith, is this your current address? If not please fill out the enclosed form and return it.” WTF is that going to do? So I called the IRS again (forgot it was W2 day, after being on hold for about 45 minutes) so I hung up. I need to go back to the office Tuesday with that letter and see if there is anything else I can do. (School all day Monday in a different city, 23 units in total.)

Cliffs:
1. If you are reading this you are lazy.
2. IRS says my SSN isn’t mine, says it belongs to my ex-wife.
3. Showed them a certified letter, issued that day, from the SS office saying it was mine.
4. IRS is straightening it out by sending a change your address form, to her, at my house.
5. I need the form the college requested before the loan deadline, or I am SOL.
6. This may have intrigued you enough to read the entire story.

So, any bright ideas on how to fix this. Any IRS employees in the house? (that want to admit it during tax season)

Tsaico - Take This Job and Shovel It

Well, things were just getting to the boiling point at my job a couple of weeks ago, my boss calls me in again and tells me one of the directors beleives that I am violating the anti-fraternization policy my company had signed a couple of years back. (I am not btw). But the director claims to have seen me at a restaraunt with a girl that works at the spa portion of the hotel. In any case, I have had a few problems with this guy, and every year he comes up with some giant issue that isn’t really a giant issue, wants me to get “written up”. The problem is that he does not have the power to do this, since his company contracts with mine to deal with IT. So while he has major input on my success at that site, he technically is not my boss. Historically he also never confronts me, he goes to my boss a couple of weeks after the incident that makes him so mad, then it takes my own boss a week or so to come to me with the issue. So usually the supposed infraction (though a couple of times they were valid) is most likely about a month old.

Any how, I finally have just had enough and tell my boss that I want to hear it from the director himself. I tell him I feel there might be a loss of communication with this “telephone style” and I want to make sure that I am on the same page. Fast forward a week and at the meeting this guy is telling me how I am a huge detriment to the overall project, I am purposefully trying to undermine his athority and generally make him look bad in front of his staff. (Which he can do just fine on his own) Anyhow, after 5 years of hearing this through my own boss relaying the message, I just had enough. I just told him that perhaps he was right. While I do not recall any such actions on my part, there is obviously something that isn’t working. Then I just said, consider this my two week notice.
Then the director lost it at this point, he just started shouting and cursing, and after a minute, I just turned to my own boss and told him, “see, this is what I deal with. I am done.” and then I just left.

So I don’t hear from either of them (my boss works at a different site day to day) for nearly two weeks. Today is my last day and yesterday, they approach me about what it would take for me to stay. I have tried to transferr to a different site, but no other technician in the campany wants this damn place, so it gets turned down, I tried twice before this. I told them since I could not be transferred, it would take antoher 15k to get me to stay. (which i knew they couldn’t do) I more or less just rehashed the meeting and told them, while not quite this much over the top, this is typical behavior, and I am just tired of it. Wish it could have been another way, but it wasn’t so, I am leaving. He tried to get me “to meet them halfway and see what happens” but I stood firm.

I will admit that I am proud of myself for staying my ground, though I am now just going to troll the networking thread and see what I can get.

So now that I am totally releived about my situation, right after I quit, I bought two plane tickets to China and started the Visa process, and they came in on Monday. I leave for China tomorrow morning on a 5 am flight, non-stop to Beijing. Then I will be headed to Xian to see some teracota soldiers, off to Guilin for some culture, then to Hong Kong for some good old fashion commercialism. I know it is cold over there, but after that final straw I need some time and a change of pace. While not moving out there level, at least kicking off the new job hunt by going to another place for two weeks is going to be a refreshing start. Plus, my girlfriend has never been to any Asian country (she is Portugese herself).

Thanks for reading and I will see you guys later.

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