Hate a Local Business Week

My company has a program, "Love a Local Business". I love this program because it let's me recognized comapnies that have gone out of their way to give me good services. Too bad that this week, it seems like all my local and no-so-local businesses all seem out to screw me.

First, we have Julian Roberts, Tax Accountant and Lawyer. DO NOT USE THIS MAN. I gave him my receipts to do my taxes back in the first week of Dec. It's almost 3 months later and HE STILL HASN'T FINISHED MY TAXES. Not only that, but every time I call the office, no one has any idea who I am, they promise to find to find out what's going on and call me back and they never do. So then I have to call again. Plus, the bookkeeper they farmed my stuff out to keeps finding "one more thing" to do. I swear she's dragging this job out on purpose so she can bill more. In the meantime, the Franchise Tax Board is garnishing both my and Mr. Mac's paychecks even though we clearly don't owe them money but they can get away with it because we haven't filed.

Then, to tied us over until we get this tax stuff straightened out, I sold some of my stock. I selected the option to have a check mailed to me. I ALWAYS check this option. It's free and the least work. But every time, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney does not send me a check but deposits the money into my account. So I sold the stock Thurs. morning and it's already Monday and I don't have my check. I will have to call tomorrow and make them send me a check. And I won't get my money until more than a week after I sold my stock even though they had the money pretty much immediately.

Next, is AT&T uVerse. I set up to record the Olympics. I had no indication that they would not record. But twice now, I've come home to find that nothing is recording. Last Monday it was because of conflicts, but we canceled some stuff and checked and it was supposed to record and nothing else is recording. So it just didn't record. (This also happened to 4CCs. Just didn't record.) What kind of a dumb-ass system doesn't tell about potential conflicts in your recordings and allow you to manage them so what yo want to get recorded gets recorded?

And let's not talk about their sucky network that doesn't allow shows to playback without stuttering and which takes 10 minutes to load a page sometimes.

It's not just businesses. Everything else is going wrong too. I lost my Garmin multisport computer -- just $280 down the drain, that's all. And yesterday I did a really big workout and my bike computer didn't record it properly so I don't have any idea how I did.

I wonder what else can go wrong this week.