RedJen's Rearview Mirror

Dear Verizon,

Please review you math and grammar rules. It appears that your marketing, sales, billing and service personnel are having trouble with these basic subjects.

Math – point zero two cents do not equal point zero two dollars.
Grammar – the words can and may imply choice, they do not mean the same thing as must, which implies a requirement.

RJ

Dear Potential Verizon Customer,

While I haven’t been lucky enough to run into the mathematics errors, the trials of the people who have are easily found. If you want to know how low the math skills have sunk in the business world Google .002 and Verizon.

My issue with Verizon is that the saying you “may or can” do something and saying you “must” do something are not the same thing. Also, when you go to a car dealership and take a Test Drive, there are certain things that you assume. The first thing I assume is that if I don’t like the car and I give it back to dealer, they are going to say thank you and we are done with our conversation. What I don’t expect is for the dealer to measure the gas tank and charge me for the fuel used.

So if you decide to take up Verizon on their Test Drive Program and you decide to give their car back; unless you transfer the number to another carrier they claim that you don’t qualify under the Test Drive Program. If you just cancel their service, they’ll say you are under their Worry Free Program. The difference between the two in my case amounted to almost a $100.00.

RJ

From the Vatican via CNN

The original deadly sins -- mortal sins that require absolution for the sinner to avoid hell -- are pride, envy, gluttony, lust, anger, greed and sloth. They have been vividly portrayed in literature such as Dante's "The Inferno" since the Middle Ages.

Girotti is second in command at the Apostolic Penitentiary, the Vatican body responsible for confessions and absolutions.

In his L'Osservatore interview, Girotti said pollution and genetic engineering, as well as drug dealing, abortion, pedophilia, social injustice and extreme wealth were now on record as mortal sins, those the Church deems most offensive to God and those that could land you a spot in hell without repentance.

"In different times, in moments of history, cultural moments, technological moments, sins dress themselves up, so to speak, in a different way," the Rev. John Wauck from Rome's Pontifical University of the Holy Cross told CNN.

"The underlying sin tends to be the same -- a variation of a theme of selfishness, a lack of respect for others, of lying, cheating , stealing or killing," Wauck said.

I'm not sure why we need a new set of deadly sins. If these "new" sins fall under the existing list, then they really don't need new ones. It may be Lent, but do we need new sins?

Oh so true...

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