Ever hear that story? It goes like this:
The world is full of Schlamiels and Schlamozzles. A Schlamiel is someone who goes around their entire life sneezing all over everyone. . . and schlamozzles are the ones who, inevitably, are sneezed upon. (It's supposed to be a Jewish/Yiddish story, but I first heard it on the old All In The Family TV series when I was a kid.) I know. . . it's not really a story. More like an analogy. But, oh, so true!
I will say is that, though I don't always get the work done that I set out to do, if I keep at it, I usually accomplish something in the course of a day. Does that sound "less than professional?" Bear in mind, you are reading the blog of someone who, when I'm busy, entirely forgets to change out of my pajamas all day. But that was yesterday. (I actually looked down at about 6:00 p.m. and realized I'd never gotten dressed. I was on an IM conference chat at the time, with a colleague in Australia and giggled to myself that he'd be nickered if he knew!)
That's not typical. But it happens.
Of course, the latest news is the OPFM flip. Yes, it finally happened. But it isn't exactly going as planned. If it were going as planned, I'd be in a much better mood. Not that it's a complete disaster. It's just run into a lot of untoward delays.
For one thing, the company we're flipping into has the most bass-ackwards sign-up form I've ever seen-- it gives you your member ID # BEFORE you sign up (????), then asks you for it in the sign-up. I went through the process 3 times, but never saw it.
That's the good news.
The bad news is, because my name has a "non-alpha-numeric" in it, none of my three sign-up attempts worked. So, though I got my link on Wednesday evening and should be in "pig heaven," instead, I didn't finally sign up until Saturday afternoon, when they "discovered" the "glitch about alpha-numerics." What's this mean? Instead of "pig heaven"-- I'm bacon.
Mind you, no where on the sign-up page does it say, "no non-alpha-numeric" symbols in the sign-up. . . .no where. Hey! I would know! I visited that danged sign-up form more often than I've visited my mother in the last 5 years! Had I known that, I would have corrected the situation right away. . . Had THEY known that, they could have asked me to. . .
Meanwhile. . . since I am also a site admin at the OPFM forum, I have had to bite my tongue as other people who did manage to sign up successfully on Wednesday night (all those darned non-alpha-numeric's!) tout their 3rd and 4th cycle. . . which means they've made hundreds of dollars. . . and I haven't made squat. Worse than that, because of this little "glitch" I won't have the money to go on to the next load. . . nor the one after that. . .
Oh, and best of all, we were told not to advertise or otherwise gain any sign-ups outside of OPFM until the load is finished and verified. . . which is quite understandable. And only fair to those who are still waiting to load.
But I had a real back-and-forth today with one lady who insisted that the supposed company rep on the forum (who has been brought in, theoretically, to answer member's questions, although she's yet to respond to even one of mine), said it was okay to advertise and insisted on debating the meaning of the word "could". (Because the company rep had replied that one reason for delays is that people could be advertising or making mistakes in their sign-ups. . . )
Well, could has two meanings. . . 1) possible or 2) acceptable. She was using the second meaning, when obviously the first was intended. But, then, a fool always sees what they want to see-- it's the wise man who looks for the truth. And I have just one guess for WHY this lady became so irate about the issue, even going so far as to ask me if I was capable of reading, if I spent ANY time at the forum (one guess on why I haven't been posting here--) and was even trying to re-define the meaning of the word "could"-- well. Dum-dee-dum-dumm: Guess who's BEEN advertising?
People.
By the way, I have the best background in the world for being a forum moderator/site admin-- I bartended for 9 years. So I have lots of experience handling childish, stupid people who would be ashamed of themselves if they heard how they sounded once they sobered up.
Well, as Laverne and Shirley used to say, Schlamiel! Schlamozzle! Hasenpfeffer, Inc.! (Hey! I finally get that!)
I'll just say, C'est La Vie!--mo
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