In the first part of October the database for the Oregon Employment Deparment was breached. Two weeks later I received a letter informing me that I was one of the affected, although it had been over 6 years since I used the WorkSource site.
I wasn't happy. Why had the state kept my info for so long and why did the media not report the breach till a week later and those affected weren't notified till after another week had passed.
Am also upset that the following article doesn't explain everything well: Oregon Employment Department notifies customers of data breach
So what all is lacking from the article?
According to the back of the form letter, one must first relog into WorkSoucre and change their password, hard to do if it has been over six years! Second call the company they are using for the credit monitoring and get their free service. Third, get a copy of their credit report, fourth sign up for another credit monitoring from one of the three big credit bureaus, and lastly sign up for credit fraud alerts via one of the three credit sites. And no...these are NOT free.
That is what angered me. If their so called free monitoring wasn't going to be enough, they should have admitted that. I am now going to be out some money using TransUnion and Equifax to have security freezes and Fraud Alerts on my credit. What the form doesn't say either is contacting ones various banks after all this to inform them before they attempt to look at your score, as they just might do if you call them and want your credit card payments reduced or apply for a loan. The letter also doesn't say one should alert the IRS, FTC, and other such government companies AHEAD of any possible id theft. Helps to cover your rear end.
The State of Oregon should be doing more.
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Entitlements
I believe there is a heavy case of entitlement personality disorder in this town I live in.
Today I was out shopping and people were above their usual rudeness. Example when asked one person why they left their cart out in the parking lot instead of taking it to a corral, the person responded with:
"Why should I do their job?"
However the big pinch of the day was at Dollar Tree where I witnessed the following. The customer is putting her items on the belt and telling the cashier to check the lids, although she already was. The cashier jokily explained that the lids were often loosen by people who actually sell the liquids and leave only half a bottle behind. to this the customer said:
"I work with the homeless and a dollar saved is a dollar earned"
At this point I had to bite my tongue, it is still stealing.
Then the customer was trying to use the belt area to dump her money out. Only it was still going. She demanded the cashier stop it. Turns out the money was triggering it to go. Then when picking up her bags "You need to double bag this."
It was a big of napkins! Seriously?! She made the cashier double every bag and triple bag the napkins. All the time saying this like "You should have someone here bagging for you"
The cashier responded with "I had to send her on a break. We were slow and state law requires a ten minute break."
I could go on with this example but you get the idea. Also seen today in many places, a woman arguing over her gift card that no longer worked, wanting her money back. Gift cards themselves say that they can not be exchanged for cash. I listened to a man scream, yes scream, at a cashier wanting to exchange a dollar for quarters when he couldn't open his till because he was ringing up a customer. A worker had to get off a ladder to help a elderly woman pick up something and another shopper grabbed the ladder and used it themselves to get something down. I saw security drag someone out of a stock room and heard just this part: "We told only employees are allowed in there." I watched a man demand a second cashier when he was not only the next on in line but the customer in front of him was already paying. on that same vein, a saw a woman try to stop a cashier while she was working to tell her she needed a another cashier and then spend several minutes telling her how to do her job.
I could go on.
If this is the retail world before Halloween then I'm not shopping at all in November or December.
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My opinion, YOU the customer are NOT entitled to be rude. YOU are NOT entitled to have the rules and law bent around your world, your life. Deal with it.
Today I was out shopping and people were above their usual rudeness. Example when asked one person why they left their cart out in the parking lot instead of taking it to a corral, the person responded with:
"Why should I do their job?"
However the big pinch of the day was at Dollar Tree where I witnessed the following. The customer is putting her items on the belt and telling the cashier to check the lids, although she already was. The cashier jokily explained that the lids were often loosen by people who actually sell the liquids and leave only half a bottle behind. to this the customer said:
"I work with the homeless and a dollar saved is a dollar earned"
At this point I had to bite my tongue, it is still stealing.
Then the customer was trying to use the belt area to dump her money out. Only it was still going. She demanded the cashier stop it. Turns out the money was triggering it to go. Then when picking up her bags "You need to double bag this."
It was a big of napkins! Seriously?! She made the cashier double every bag and triple bag the napkins. All the time saying this like "You should have someone here bagging for you"
The cashier responded with "I had to send her on a break. We were slow and state law requires a ten minute break."
I could go on with this example but you get the idea. Also seen today in many places, a woman arguing over her gift card that no longer worked, wanting her money back. Gift cards themselves say that they can not be exchanged for cash. I listened to a man scream, yes scream, at a cashier wanting to exchange a dollar for quarters when he couldn't open his till because he was ringing up a customer. A worker had to get off a ladder to help a elderly woman pick up something and another shopper grabbed the ladder and used it themselves to get something down. I saw security drag someone out of a stock room and heard just this part: "We told only employees are allowed in there." I watched a man demand a second cashier when he was not only the next on in line but the customer in front of him was already paying. on that same vein, a saw a woman try to stop a cashier while she was working to tell her she needed a another cashier and then spend several minutes telling her how to do her job.
I could go on.
If this is the retail world before Halloween then I'm not shopping at all in November or December.
.
My opinion, YOU the customer are NOT entitled to be rude. YOU are NOT entitled to have the rules and law bent around your world, your life. Deal with it.
Jodi Arias
I am disgusted by the media trashing of Jodi Arias. If she smiles, she is evil. If she frowns, she is evil. I just don't get it.
My thoughts on the case.
She didn't plan to kill Travis.
There I said it. On this. On my internet troll free blog. Yes comments are still disabled. Forever!
Travis did use her. He treated her like a object. Did he deserve to die, of course not but she didn't want to kill him.
However right now her fate has been decided by a jury and all that is left is her sentencing. Does she live or die? I chose life.
That is all I want to say today, or maybe ever, about the subject.
My thoughts on the case.
She didn't plan to kill Travis.
There I said it. On this. On my internet troll free blog. Yes comments are still disabled. Forever!
Travis did use her. He treated her like a object. Did he deserve to die, of course not but she didn't want to kill him.
However right now her fate has been decided by a jury and all that is left is her sentencing. Does she live or die? I chose life.
That is all I want to say today, or maybe ever, about the subject.
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