im home sick, not homesick

CRUSHJEEP @ 20/6/2016 13:27

im home sick today

hey same

I didn't go home sick from work or anything, but I have nausea and maybe a low fever. It's probably hormone bullshit since my birth control implant has kept my period away for an extra month.

yeah same here

Flu's going around actually. My neighbor went to the ER with it a few days ago and shes our age

I'm sick lol

oh i actually wasnt home sick or homesick, i was faking it and taking the day off

I wasn't.

Remember how I complained about how long checks take at my store? I had a guy buying a $1000 TV and he asked if we take checks and I'm like "Yes, but I'll have to call to get it authorized. Is that okay?" and he says it's okay. He writes a personal check, and personal checks always take way longer to process than business checks, so I'm bracing myself for this inconvenience.

Fast forward a few minutes of me being on the phone with authorization lady Keisha and Keisha gets to the verification part of check authorization that requires her talking to the customer to confirm his identity and she starts asking her security questions. He gets fed up after she asks the second question and is like "Forget it! I'll just use a card!" and runs a credit card.

The card goes through, the transaction's over in less time than I was on hold with Keisha as she looked up this guy's information, and I'm standing there trying to just smile in the plain friendly customer service way and not the "lol I just wasted all these minutes because I accidentally intentionally neglected to mention that cards are faster than checks" way (the reason I never mentioned it was because I've had customers get huffy for suggesting they use a card instead of a check, so I just let them pick their payment form).

Then the guy told me he was never coming back and I was like "I'm sorry, sir :)"

And then earlier, I had a lady trying to buy ink with a debit card, but since it was a chip card, she needed to enter her PIN (the forced PIN thing is a security thing with our readers that makes a lot of sense (signatures don't mean shit to our system and people sign with ragged lines and smiley faces), and we have signs up that no one reads stating that we can't run debit chip cards as credit), but she didn't know her PIN because she never uses the card as debit.

BUT, unlike many others, she just accepted that I wouldn't be able to force her card to run as credit and that I wouldn't fuck with the chip reader to let the machine allow her to slide it (but I never actually mentioned that you can fuck with it, since we're supposed to watch out for people who do this because it's a fraud technique).

She was like "Oh I guess I'll have to go home and try to remember it" and I wanted to be like "OR just go to the bank??? Your bank has a branch literally across the street."

Part of me was all "Thank you for not yelling about this" but inside, I'm like "why do you people not know your PINs???" Like, I can understand being annoyed if your bank is shitty and charges you for using your card as debit, but you should probably know you PIN anyway.

Grimapple @ 20/6/2016 20:03

Remember how I complained about how long checks take at my store? I had a guy buying a $1000 TV and he asked if we take checks and I'm like "Yes, but I'll have to call to get it authorized. Is that okay?" and he says it's okay. He writes a personal check, and personal checks always take way longer to process than business checks, so I'm bracing myself for this inconvenience. Fast forward a few minutes of me being on the phone with authorization lady Keisha and Keisha gets to the verification part of check authorization that requires her talking to the customer to confirm his identity and she starts asking her security questions. He gets fed up after she asks the second question and is like "Forget it! I'll just use a card!" and runs a credit card. The card goes through, the transaction's over in less time than I was on hold with Keisha as she looked up this guy's information, and I'm standing there trying to just smile in the plain friendly customer service way and not the "lol I just wasted all these minutes because I accidentally intentionally neglected to mention that cards are faster than checks" way (the reason I never mentioned it was because I've had customers get huffy for suggesting they use a card instead of a check, so I just let them pick their payment form). Then the guy told me he was never coming back and I was like "I'm sorry, sir :)" And then earlier, I had a lady trying to buy ink with a debit card, but since it was a chip card, she needed to enter her PIN (the forced PIN thing is a security thing with our readers that makes a lot of sense (signatures don't mean shit to our system and people sign with ragged lines and smiley faces), and we have signs up that no one reads stating that we can't run debit chip cards as credit), but she didn't know her PIN because she never uses the card as debit. BUT, unlike many others, she just accepted that I wouldn't be able to force her card to run as credit and that I wouldn't fuck with the chip reader to let the machine allow her to slide it (but I never actually mentioned that you can fuck with it, since we're supposed to watch out for people who do this because it's a fraud technique). She was like "Oh I guess I'll have to go home and try to remember it" and I wanted to be like "OR just go to the bank??? Your bank has a branch literally across the street." Part of me was all "Thank you for not yelling about this" but inside, I'm like "why do you people not know your PINs???" Like, I can understand being annoyed if your bank is shitty and charges you for using your card as debit, but you should probably know you PIN anyway.

I forgot the PIN on my Danish card after I went on Christmas break, remembered it like a day later, I was off by one number or something.

Grimapple @ 20/6/2016 22:03

Remember how I complained about how long checks take at my store?

nope

Oh and I couldn't use my American card to buy food at the Univ, so I had to use my Icelandic one (it was before I got the Danish one) and I forgot the PIN for that too, even though I've used it probably over a thousand times lol.

I remembered the numbers but not the sequence and there was a line behind me and I failed like 3 times so I stepped aside while I was trying to remember it.

DAE forget shit for short periods of time, like that actor's name who was in your favorite movie?

I figured it was common sense that cheques take a long ass time to go through at a store. I am surprised he blamed you guys for that.

Grimapple @ 20/6/2016 22:03

Remember how I complained about how long checks take at my store? I had a guy buying a $1000 TV and he asked if we take checks and I'm like "Yes, but I'll have to call to get it authorized. Is that okay?" and he says it's okay. He writes a personal check, and personal checks always take way longer to process than business checks, so I'm bracing myself for this inconvenience. Fast forward a few minutes of me being on the phone with authorization lady Keisha and Keisha gets to the verification part of check authorization that requires her talking to the customer to confirm his identity and she starts asking her security questions. He gets fed up after she asks the second question and is like "Forget it! I'll just use a card!" and runs a credit card. The card goes through, the transaction's over in less time than I was on hold with Keisha as she looked up this guy's information, and I'm standing there trying to just smile in the plain friendly customer service way and not the "lol I just wasted all these minutes because I accidentally intentionally neglected to mention that cards are faster than checks" way (the reason I never mentioned it was because I've had customers get huffy for suggesting they use a card instead of a check, so I just let them pick their payment form). Then the guy told me he was never coming back and I was like "I'm sorry, sir :)" And then earlier, I had a lady trying to buy ink with a debit card, but since it was a chip card, she needed to enter her PIN (the forced PIN thing is a security thing with our readers that makes a lot of sense (signatures don't mean shit to our system and people sign with ragged lines and smiley faces), and we have signs up that no one reads stating that we can't run debit chip cards as credit), but she didn't know her PIN because she never uses the card as debit. BUT, unlike many others, she just accepted that I wouldn't be able to force her card to run as credit and that I wouldn't fuck with the chip reader to let the machine allow her to slide it (but I never actually mentioned that you can fuck with it, since we're supposed to watch out for people who do this because it's a fraud technique). She was like "Oh I guess I'll have to go home and try to remember it" and I wanted to be like "OR just go to the bank??? Your bank has a branch literally across the street." Part of me was all "Thank you for not yelling about this" but inside, I'm like "why do you people not know your PINs???" Like, I can understand being annoyed if your bank is shitty and charges you for using your card as debit, but you should probably know you PIN anyway.

How do these people get money from the ATMs?

Hell, I can't even go into the bank to a teller without dipping in my card and inputting the PIN, so I have no idea how these people pay for anything.

Curtis @ 20/6/2016 22:46

Grimapple @ 20/6/2016 22:03 Remember how I complained about how long checks take at my store? nope

:rofl:


I remember.

And I still fucking hate checks and wish I never needed them ever. The only time I use them now is for school crap for the kids and just want to go "Can't I paypal this field trip cash to you or something?"