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Congrats on the new gig.

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Man, if I drank alcohol, I'd be completely sloshed by now thanks to what happened.

There's always time to try something new.

Reliant121 wrote:I have spent the entire day trying to take on a new client with the most horrendously complicated stock inventory, 4 currencies as well as GBP and a complete moron running their accounts team.

Sounds like trying to use credit in Great Britain before the EU. My dad was once entertaining a number of international internal clients/vassals in a high-end London restaurant, and attempted to pay for dinner with his company-issued American Express card. Well, Amex wasn't welcome there, so the group ended up having to pay the tab with a combination of pounds, American dollars, Australian dollars, Swiss francs, French francs, lire, and deutschemarks.

Mikey wrote:

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Man, if I drank alcohol, I'd be completely sloshed by now thanks to what happened.

There's always time to try something new.

At this point I'm fairly sure half a glass of wine cooler would put me under the table.

Got to attend a technical conference today. It made me realize how much I miss at least that part of Academia.
I suppose I'm attending at least half of this one even where I am now.

Mikey wrote:

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Sure!

Anyway.. guess what? Turns out R-Gis fucked the inventory up last Thursday!

Oh boy, you had the work furlough crew RGIS? What a CF they are.

What does that stand for?

Mikey wrote:

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Man, if I drank alcohol, I'd be completely sloshed by now thanks to what happened.

There's always time to try something new.

Reliant121 wrote:I have spent the entire day trying to take on a new client with the most horrendously complicated stock inventory, 4 currencies as well as GBP and a complete moron running their accounts team.

Sounds like trying to use credit in Great Britain before the EU. My dad was once entertaining a number of international internal clients/vassals in a high-end London restaurant, and attempted to pay for dinner with his company-issued American Express card. Well, Amex wasn't welcome there, so the group ended up having to pay the tab with a combination of pounds, American dollars, Australian dollars, Swiss francs, French francs, lire, and deutschemarks.

Amex is seldom accepted here in the UK. It's a pain as I have one from a UK bank. Talking to shops etc, they say they charge too much compared with others.

sunnyside wrote:Got to attend a technical conference today. It made me realize how much I miss at least that part of Academia.
I suppose I'm attending at least half of this one even where I am now.

Mikey wrote:

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Sure!

Anyway.. guess what? Turns out R-Gis fucked the inventory up last Thursday!

Oh boy, you had the work furlough crew RGIS? What a CF they are.

What does that stand for?

I don't know what it stands for. It's an outside company that comes in once a year and counts every piece of merchandise for the Walmart I work at, and every other.

Mikey wrote:Sounds like trying to use credit in Great Britain before the EU. My dad was once entertaining a number of international internal clients/vassals in a high-end London restaurant, and attempted to pay for dinner with his company-issued American Express card. Well, Amex wasn't welcome there, so the group ended up having to pay the tab with a combination of pounds, American dollars, Australian dollars, Swiss francs, French francs, lire, and deutschemarks.

AMEX is a pain. When I worked for the consumer credit card bank for a major UK bank (beginning with L, endingy in ds) a specific card was produced which got you avios points for your spending. it was designed specifically to come with two actual cards, the lead card being an AMEX and the secondary card being a Mastercard. you got better points rewards with the AMEX but it's so poorly supported we had to give a mastercard alongside so it can be used everywhere. AMEX charges our retailers up to double the cost of Visa/mastercard to small business so its generally the BIG businesses that take it.

I have quite a lot of clients that operate in many currencies but this took the biscuit. GBP, USD, EUR, JPY & QAR.

Reliant121 wrote:

Mikey wrote:Sounds like trying to use credit in Great Britain before the EU. My dad was once entertaining a number of international internal clients/vassals in a high-end London restaurant, and attempted to pay for dinner with his company-issued American Express card. Well, Amex wasn't welcome there, so the group ended up having to pay the tab with a combination of pounds, American dollars, Australian dollars, Swiss francs, French francs, lire, and deutschemarks.

AMEX is a pain. When I worked for the consumer credit card bank for a major UK bank (beginning with L, endingy in ds) a specific card was produced which got you avios points for your spending. it was designed specifically to come with two actual cards, the lead card being an AMEX and the secondary card being a Mastercard. you got better points rewards with the AMEX but it's so poorly supported we had to give a mastercard alongside so it can be used everywhere. AMEX charges our retailers up to double the cost of Visa/mastercard to small business so its generally the BIG businesses that take it.

I have quite a lot of clients that operate in many currencies but this took the biscuit. GBP, USD, EUR, JPY & QAR.

Yup, that's the card(s) I have. Avios is the new name for Air miles. On Amex I get an 'Avios' for every £1 I spend on the card, the Mastercard only gets me 1 Avios for ever £5, so I try not to use that if I can help it.

A useful trick for me is PayPal. PayPal takes Amex. Any website that takes PayPal effectively means I can use my Amex, even if that company doesn't accept Amex directly.

One of the major issues has historically been not so much the cost that Amex charges, having levelled with most of the other cards, but the time it takes Amex to pay international charges. Some European and British retailers had waited over 6 months to get paid, and in a businesss model that is strictly based on offsetting COS that is intolerable.

Had to have two cavities filled today, then at home had to remove a dead mouse from underneath the stove for my mother. Yay for today to be over.

At least you didn't have to remove a live mouse from the oven...

Mikey wrote:At least you didn't have to remove a live mouse from the oven...

True, true. At least today's been going well.

...

I just cursed myself, didn't I.

Update on my apartment. Drywall is up and mudded up. Not sanded. However my $250 book shelf is damaged. It leans back too much. When they moved it They slammed it. Solid wood too.

3 Mexicans who,can't speak English too. They start early though at 7 in the morning

Sorry to hear about your shelf. At least the apartment itself is moving along.

So you have Nexicans building a wall for you. Did you manage to get them to pay for it?