Random Thought #117

Can you remember the last time you made a change to some account of yours and the billing department got it completely right and you didn't have to call them and explain everything to them and 10 other people as well? Yeah, neither can I. Honestly, is it really that hard to bill someone for some basic services? Who are the people these places hire to fill their billing departments? Where do they get them from? And for once, could a bill be simple and straightforward. These things are so convoluted nowadays, its impossible for a person of average IQ to even decipher them. The worst are banks when dealing with loans. If you ever try to be responsible and make extra payments towards principle, prepare for 6 months of explaining Accounting 101 to these guys they call "personal bankers". It really is a joke. I don't mean to be so negative but I think they should start giving us credits for correcting their mistakes since we're basically doing their jobs for them. Coupons are just as bad. If you use more than 3 coupons in a transaction, especially at grocery stores, you need a PhD in Applied Mathematics to figure out what is going on. See what computers have done to us? They've made us a bunch of idiots. I bet if cash registers didn't tell us how much change to give, over half of the tellers nowadays would take at least 1-2 minutes to calculate and count our change. Thank goodness for plastic huh? Next thing you know, the registers will start telling them, grab 2 quarters, a dime, a nickel, and 3 pennies so they don't have to count. Let's just hope our rising generation of programmers did well in their math classes.