omgwtf!

So I woke up this morning after a nap…still have a good amount of work to do, yet here I sit, posting to my blog, just as responsible and conscientious as ever…and discovered that our cable was hosed. A lot of WTFage ensues as I potter around the house, crabbily resetting boxes and things. I have Vonage, which is VoIP, so I can’t use my regular phone to call them.

I determined that my prepaid cell phone…no sense in getting a regular cell since I use it almost exclusively for SMS anyway, and I dont trust myself not to run up a $10,000 cell phone bill…had enough time on it to call, though, and I subsequently discovered that the cable company had cut off our service for pretty much no reason whatsoever, and without any warning at all. Except for $55, we only have the current bill, so there’s no huge, outstanding balance here; in fact, today is payday, so the checks were going out this afternoon.

I had to put the cable bill towards rat surgery a few weeks ago, which is why I owed $55 in the first place. That balance was only about…errm….38 days past due, and I happen to know (because I asked previously) that their disconnection policy doesnt kick in for 60 something days.

I demanded to know what the hell was going on over there and this little strumpet got snippy with me. She shut up pretty goddamn fast, though, when I asked her why she felt so superior when she worked in an $8 an hour job for a company so evil that three of their owners went to jail for corporate chicanery and that whoever runs the joint now wouldn’t give a rat’s ass if she got hit by a truck crossing the street to go to lunch this very afternoon. I wonder, I mused to her, why she would feel such a dedication to a corporation like that, and what they ever did for her that gave her the belief that was justified in being rude to customers who are quite blatantly fucked by Adelphia over and over again.

There was a long pause, and then she asked for my Visa number. The snip had left the building.

I fucking hate corporate America, and I hate Adelphia cable. Incidentally, I also hate Russell Crowe and Cinderella Man. I hate being late for work.

It is now all but inevitable.

BALLS.