Sounds like a good name for today. I learned this morning that the person who is leaving us has decided not to come back. I was kind of surprised but then again my dream is to say today is my last day and walk out. If you don’t give proper notice you don’t get any remaining vacation, outside of that there is really no incentive to give notice. Now on the flip side if they were going to fire you they wouldn’t give you notice. I don’t owe them anything, so I really can’t blame her from wanting to get out of here.
Outside of that and the whole id theft thing I don’t know too much. I have to go back to the police department on Friday to get a copy of the report, which will cost me $5. You’d think they would give it away free given the circumstances but I suppose rules are rules. Anyway, pay for that and then make copies and mail them off to the 3 credit bureaus. I will then have fraud alerts on my credit reports for seven (7) years.
I did some research yesterday and found several forms to fill out for the IRS. There will be a multitude of police agencies working on this from Federal to Local. So I could be contacted at some point in the future. Meanwhile this just slows down my refund and I think I will be lucky to have it by Christmas.
The way this whole thing works is someone gets your SSN and information and they file early tax returns, long before you have a chance to. The government processes the returns because they think they are legit and then issues a refund. Meanwhile your sitting back waiting for paperwork to come in and probably procrastinating filing your taxes. When you do file, it’s too late the damage is done. You are screwed. Welcome to my world.
The Police Officer told me that ID theft is very common this year and they have seen record number of cases. Personally, since they have done anything yet, I don’t think they will be trying to establish credit I think they are done with me and ready to move on to the next victim.
I was surprised that I was able to get home about normal time, considering that I left work a little early. I had my salad and fed the children. Then went about my normal evening, which was rather boring because there isn’t anything on TV. Next month season premiers for the summer shows will be coming on and that should make things more interesting.
My hope is that TiVo picks up the channel changes soon that my cable company made or I won’t be watching much TV live. I will have to do everything via on demand. Which kind of defeats the purpose of having a DVR. Normally TiVo is on top of things but it’s been 2 weeks and they still don’t know the channels changed.
Boss man is here today, I didn’t think he would show up. The one person he wants to talk to is the lady that is leaving and well she isn’t here. That doesn’t make him a happy man, considering now he will have to do our payroll and I’m a little nervous about that. Last time we got free benefits as long as he doesn’t take away any money I am happy. We think that he will promote someone to take over the payroll but I don’t think that will happen. As long as I get my check on time and the funds are in my account, you could have a baby goat do payroll it matters not to me.
So Friday I will be leaving around 3pm. That will give me 1/2 hour to get to the police department before the office part closes. Then from there I am going to get my hair cut. It’s like a mop. Saturday is dentist day, just a cleaning. Then I’m free after that. Who knows what kind of trouble I will get into. <grin>
I attended a webinar this morning on ethical hacking and how hackers work. Wow, were all pretty much screwed from what I saw. Antivirus software is a good thing to have but they can easily bypass that. I learned that a best practice is to frequently reformat your computer and start over. The person who did the talking said he reformats and starts over at a minimum of every 2 weeks. Wow. It takes me about an hour to rebuilt my machine. I don’t want to go through that if I don’t have to. Most hackers know this and that is one of the weak points in the chain. I learned that most hacking in companies like Target, Adobe, etc. isn’t on the server level but on the desktop level. That is where the real payload of information is. Kind of scary when you think about it. However, I am out as a gay man, I am as poor as a church mouse and really outside of that there is nothing to hide. The one person/thing that I valued is gone so really I don’t care. There is very little anyone can do to truly hurt me. Cause me discomfort and make my life difficult sure that is probably an easy target but to actually hurt me, nah I don’t think so.
Time to jump off the soap box and get back to “work”. Talk with you peeps later.
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