Friday, January 11, 2008

my company paid my phone bill

not on purpose, sadly. here's how it went down:

i originally called at&t and had phone and internet service set up back sometime in late november/early december. as of this wednesday i had still not received a bill from them, so, fearful of late fees, i called to see what the deal was. the nice customer service guy on the other line told me that they had sent the bill and received payment in december, to which i replied, "whaaaa???" i mean, no late fees, cool, but who the hell paid my bill? a few rounds of questions later, i determined that my bill had somehow been sent to my office. i realized after hanging up with the guy that i had given them the office address for shipping my modem, and they must have interpreted this request as "this is my billing address." my office, thinking it was the bill for the new store (that at&t bill also has my name on it, since i set up the utilities), glanced at it once and paid it. while it would have been nice not to pay the $110, i decided i had to let them know that a mistake had been made (i know, i'm so honest). so in the end, no free lunch for me. but it's good to know that our accounting department pays so much attention to detail. :(

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