So I’ve been sitting next to KCOG for a month or so now and it’s been about what I expected. The old man sweater wearing, the simple questions about things he should know by now, the people coming by his desk to just talk, but what I didn’t plan on were the random conversation starters. The way we sit has our cube openings facing each other, so I can see him out of the corner of my eye and vice versa. Recently he has started to turn to me and just randomly say a statement like “I told them I didn’t want to go to that meeting” or “I was in an online conversation with someone from the bank and they kept asking me my name”. He does this so I have to turn and acknowledge him, and then he’ll continue the story. I always turn, because I’d feel bad otherwise, but the whole time I’m looking at him I’m thinking “I don’t care about any of this”. I’ve been able to avoid the random backrubs that I heard KCOG likes to give, so I figure I’m doing okay.

More recently, someone came to his desk and KCOG let him in on a little secret. Apparently KCOG knows about an investment opportunity and really wants to get “Guy who came by” in on it. KCOG was telling GWCB to talk to ‘the boss’ (ie wife) and if she’s cool with it, GWCB will just have to give KCOG his account number, routing number, and some other banking number. I thought “that sounds like a plan with disaster written all over it”.

BTW, I bookmarked a few news stories that I found interesting, here they are:

This lady was late on a couple of credit card payments, the bank jacked up her interest rate because she doesn’t have a full-time job and made late payments. To fight the higher rate, she made a youtube video telling the bank they were being terrible people. The bank eventually had some VP guy call her and lower her rate. Who started this fiasco? The lady getting the lowered interest rate. More of that great “it’s not my problem, someone fix it for me” attitude.

Two teenagers working at Domino’s managed to get everyone at their store fired by being complete morons. They’re being charged with food tampering, but I think they should be more afraid of their former co-workers kicking their ass.

If you ever wanted to track sex offenders on your iPhone, there’s an app for that.