Billing

Oh man, what a Monday this has been.

FIDO, is our Cel provider, and I have to say, I enjoy their service, until this last couple of months.

David dropped his original phone, got it ran over, and so off we had to go for a new one, at our own expense. Now that I didn't mind, but you know, the quality of service from their own store sucks big time. Got to the point where even telling them I was gonna quit their plan, got me a response of.. go ahead.

That went over well, with me.

However, this issue is that the new phone was a piece of crap from Sony Erickson. I mean bad, and we even had another sent from FIDO itself, as their store couldn't supply us with a replacement for the one we returned. Figures, and here is where the problem gets interesting.

That was all in Feb, and now comes the bills in March, and naturally no credits for the TWO returned phones. Talking to them, resulted in a credit showing for this month, until the wife gets a text saying the account is overdue.

Now that ticked me off, and after an hour talking, I got it resolved, because we don't owe them, they owe us, but hey, it kind of makes me wonder about all the other companies out there. I mean if they use the same billing practices, that FIDO does, well, it is no wonder the world's economy is in the toilet.

I hear that GM is being pressured to file bankruptcy by the government, and that the bad assets stay with the bankrupt company, the good assets go to a new clean company. Haven't gotten to read all the details, but you know, maybe that is our problem, in a nutshell.

TOO MANY GIMMICKS! TOO MANY TRICKS!

I don't know how it works in the States, not sure I know how it works up here anymore, either, but if a company can't make a go of it, it goes bankrupt. The Government doesn't rush in and give it my money, to stay solvent, then tells it to hose its creditors, in order to get more of my money. I mean, something isn't right here, when we resort to those kind of tricks, which really, smack of being a scam.

Take banks, who now, under Stephen Harper, can put bad debt into a separate account, not have to list it, until they sell the bad debt off, like to a collection agency. It no longer appears in their profit/loss statement, and is called a new accounting method, to keep banks solvent, so investors can invest in these banks.

UH, excuse me, but if you loaned out money, that you are going to take a loss on, shouldn't investors know how much that is? And more importantly, shouldn't it be included, in all financial disclosures for that bank, even for depositors? I mean, it DOES alter the financial status of the bank, because it is money they show having loaned, just not recovered. What it DOES NOT SHOW, is how much the BANK IS LOSING.

I mean, just like FIDO, it seems honest math is not important. By honest, I mean real math, where one plus one equals two, not three if the day is rainy.

If GM is unable to meet its bills, is unwilling to change how it does business, why should it get one penny of taxpayer money?

I am not rich, or even well off. Yet I manage to pay the rent, the utilities, and put food on the table. Now, some of those things are being cut back, because times are tough. I am not rushing out to buy a new computer, when it is hard enough to buy the groceries. Yet that is what GM & Others are doing. They pay out bonuses and pay huge salaries to people who have not done the job they were hired to do. These people continue to collect perks, and benefits, while also reaching for taxpayer money.

Now that is simply wrong, in my books, and it sure as hell isn't common sense, now is it?