The Story of the Roach Infected Computer

[Fenrus]

Yeah, the US has different sales taxes depending on where you live, state to state, county to county, and sometimes even city to city! :O

But yeah, it'd be difficult for major retailers to constantly have to both A) Print signs for different places with the same merchandise, different sales tax, and B) Print new signs every time somewhere had an inflation or deflation of sales tax (Just in the last couple months our sales tax went from 6.6% to 6.75% to 6.85% then back to 6.8%...)

[Kaylyn]

We live with my mother-in-law. It's not a nice neighborhood, and to put it honestly, she and her other son are PIGS. We have a horrific roach infestation, and I'm the type to run screaming when I see one. Well, her power supply fried. I opened it up to see what I could do...and about 30 of them ran out............yeah, I made HER take it apart, in HER bedroom. Then I realized it was a Sony and not going to be an easy fix, so now she's out of a computer. (Just as well...my phone bill got crammed last month because of her signing up for stupid shit on the internet, so if she ever gets another one or gets that one fixed I'm forbidding her internet privileges.)

[mharbourgirl]

I meant Canada's dumb.

*runs and hides from screaming hockey stick wielding canucks*

I kid, I kid I like canadians and their gooey malpe syrup centers.

You need to come up here for a vacation, hon. We have coffee and beer too.

And I quite agree there are many dumb things about our tax system.

Don't worry about being attacked for voicing your opinion of our government. You should hear what WE say about it on a daily basis. Besides, no true Canadian would ever get offended by someone dissing an act of government. I think it's part of our Constitution anyway. Anyone who votes gets to slag off the government as often and as creatively as they like. So I make sure to vote in any and every election, from municipal up to federal. You can't complain if you don't vote.

But if you do come up here, just keep an eye on what city you're in and be careful how you voice your opinions about the local hockey team. You want to be chased down the street by rabid, hockey-stick-waving Canadians? Diss the local team. That'll do it. (Unless you're in Vancouver. Say what you like about the Canucks, nobody in Vancouver can really argue with you. )

[zzapp the witch]

Bwahaha! No sales tax here! (Oregon) Thumbs nose at everyone and /flees.

[Broomjockey]

Don't worry about being attacked for voicing your opinion of our government.

Except this is the wrong site to do so. There's a specific site for politics. It's called Fratching. It's made for comments like "Your tax system is dumb."

[Nyoibo]

Last time I was in Vancouver I saw one guy spit on anothers car and the other guy pop the trunk and get out a baseball bat, that was amusing.

[froglet]

Are we allowed to comment about bad customer service we GET
A local convience store has multiple promotions on chocolate bars and they never seem to get it right.
Cadbury 100g varienty 2 / $5 you get your receipt and it shows the following
Cadbury 100 $2.79
Cadbury 100 $2.79
subtotal + 5.58
GST 0.28


when pointing out the error I was advised that the price was plus GST. Kay My math is rather good last time I looked provincial / GST taxes were separtate and 2.79 + 2.79 = 0.58 cents to much.

I had the same thing happen with a 2 for $5 Dibs deal I saw on the freezer case window, I really need to start reading receipts better when I get them.

And the taxes aren't included, I believe, because certain items don't charge it, some charge only one, and they are NOT allowed to charge one tax on the total of the other, both are on taxable subtotals.

Plus, in general, its law that the lowest marked price on an item is what they have to go by if two are visible, don't know about display signs, might be more policy based.

[earl colby pottinger]

Don't forget

On in-store rebates. It is possible that the rebate only applies after the taxes are added.

IE. If an item for $5.00 has a $2.00 rebate, that you pay taxes on $5.00 not on $3.00!

And yes, I have seen customers get sucky about this. Mind you at the time G.S.T. + P.S.T. = 15%.

On computer equipment that can add up.

[Gravekeeper]

Last time I was in Vancouver I saw one guy spit on anothers car and the other guy pop the trunk and get out a baseball bat, that was amusing.

I've lived here for 10 years and worked nights downtown for 6. I've never once actually felt unsafe and despite all the weirdness I see on the weekends, its never actually threatening in any way. Just....disturbing. ;p

Hell our breaks are at like 3-4am and we still leave the office to run out to get food.

The most serious crime I've ever actually seen committed here was when some weird guy climbed up the drain of my old office ( about 2.5 stories up >< ), onto the balcony, through the door to our operations floor and went around asking all the operators if they had "seen his ferret". Until he was escorted out.

Were you hanging out in Surrey? ;p

Surrey doesn't count. Surrey is where dreams go to die.

[Chromatix]

In Britain, Essex and Surrey are counties near London. And there are many jokes about them. Particularly the stereotypical girls found there...

Essex girls are supposedly sluts. They, for example, think knickers are actually ankle-warmers.

Surrey girls are supposedly very plain. And sluts as well.

This is, of course, only according to the jokes. I'm not suggesting thats *actually* the case!

[Broomjockey]

In Britain,

In British Columbia, Surrey is near Vancouver, and is mostly one giant "Skid Row."

So, fairly similar.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Canada. Where it's not already factored into the shelf price. =p

Here in the US, our shelf prices and signage won't reflect the amount with sales tax either.

Of course it still doesn't stop people from wanting to argue on rare occasion . . .

[mharbourgirl]

In British Columbia, Surrey is near Vancouver, and is mostly one giant "Skid Row."

So, fairly similar.

Yeah, as in 'Where do Surrey girls go when they get up in the morning? ... Home."

I grew up in North Delta, right next door. I remember the old jokes well.

[Jackofalltrades]

The worst I have ever come across was when I opened a computer and I found lots of mouse droppings. EWWWW! I grabbed a pair of latex gloves after thoroughly washing my hands.

BTW, I have 3 iPods:
30gB Video - Atlas
8gB Nano - Mr. Bubbles
1 gB Shuffle - Little Sister

Custom Compaq - Rapture
MacBook Pro - Jack

\\I am a total Bioshock Fanboy

[Broomjockey]

Luckily, the worst thing I've ever seen in a computer is dust.

My computer names are rather bland, compared to the ones here, just Obelisk for the desk top, since it's very large, and very black. Twilight for the laptop, since it's not quite black, and midnight for the NAS since it's brushed metal black. I've got a thing for dark-coloured computing parts. My monitor's black, my keyboard's black and silver, my mouse is black, my printer's dark grey, my phone's very dark blue. Unfortunately, having used twilight and midnight already, I don't know if I can come up with another night-themed name when I get something else...