It's Another....LAST to POST! Who cares about the number? It's LAST that matters!

[franandaj]

Nope! I'm last!

 

[PrincessInOz]

I'm NOT even going to ask for a free lunch today. (Although, enjoy yours at the Ivy, Queenie).

We've had quite a few free dinners....and I think that's been more than enough to LAST me for a while.

At work....packing up (quietly). Gonna try and sneak out a little later in the morning and put my stuff in the car.

Who would've thunked that I'm leaving this company with LESS stuff than I brought in thru' the door?

 

[PrincessInOz]

Sorry, paying bills Yuck

Well, someone's got to do it!

My bills all wanna pay themselves! We can set up automatic bill pay via direct debit for all our utilities here. Call me old fogie.....but I definitely prefer to know how much and when we need to pay our bills rather than set and forget!

 

[kmedina]

My husband gets free food at work all the time. I worked for the same company for over 11 years. I can count on my fingers how many times the owner bought us lunch. No free lunch here, but at least I'm last.

 

[PrincessInOz]

Last for now. Gotta put that nose back to the grindstone soon......










....WAIT! There is no grindstone left!!

 

[kmedina]

Last before I hit the road________________!

 

[skiingfast]

My bills all wanna pay themselves! We can set up automatic bill pay via direct debit for all our utilities here. Call me old fogie.....but I definitely prefer to know how much and when we need to pay our bills rather than set and forget!

I have a question about your utilities. Do you pay your (I forget what you call it) Council?

 

[franandaj]

My bills all wanna pay themselves! We can set up automatic bill pay via direct debit for all our utilities here. Call me old fogie.....but I definitely prefer to know how much and when we need to pay our bills rather than set and forget!

We have our electric bill set up to pay automatically, but I still have to log it into the excel checkbook. I pay most stuff online. I could set up the credit cards to pay themselves, but since we pay them off in full every month, I like to set the day it debits my bank account. Some times those bills are pretty hefty!

 

[skiingfast]

Last.

 

[queenie82]

I get all excited then I see the menu....bleh...

Can I have two desserts and skip the entree??

http://www.merivale.com/downloads/IVY_winter_menus_for_web_MC.pdf

They are being cheapskates basically...
A set menu with minimal choices.

No I don't eat oysters or roe....
No I don't plan to eat rabbit....bleh...
The salad? I don't like rocket one little bit. But maybe they won't have destroyed the pears?
I might get oysters etc for others to have....it is the most in 'value'

For minute steak? Does that mean it's rare?
I'll get option two in the main if I don't have to pay the supplement because I'm not eating an entree...


Dessert.....I'll have all 3 please

 

[PrincessInOz]

I have a question about your utilities. Do you pay your (I forget what you call it) Council?

Even in Oz, we have companies that operate in the capitalist way .

Gas, Electricity, Water, Phone are all private companies and we pay them directly.

The local council in the area that I live in charges us rates for garbage collection, fixing roads, maintaining parks etc. They are also pretty much run like businesses these days. The last lot of councillors before this mob (and they are elected in) couldn't manage funds to save themselves so they got sacked! And then this current mob got elected in.

My turn at LAST.

 

[queenie82]

I have one credit card set up wit auto pay because it is the same bank as the account it draws from and it is the card I use least. The others I pay manually as they can fluctuate quite dramatically and I keep most of my money in a savings account so there'd may not always be enough in the transaction account to cover it. I just draw it from the savings account as required.

Me like phone banking and Bpay. Do you have that in the US ?

 

[DisneyFirefly]

I only have the internet bill and my mom's been paying that for the last few months, since I haven't been working.

 

[skiingfast]

Me like phone banking and Bpay. Do you have that in the US ?

Sometimes when you pay by phone, it costs a fee. What's Bpay?

 

[queenie82]

Bpay ...
It's basically credit companies have a biller code. it will have about 5 or 6 digits.
You then have a customer reference number...your credit card number usually

You call up your bank...and over the phone can electronically enter that information and it transfers the money from your bank account to pay you credit card bill

It is free

 

[PrincessInOz]

I believe that Bpay is an Aussie bank thing. It is a single bill payment system that works across ALL banks in Australia.

The various companies have to register with BPay to get a BPay number. Once they have that number, they can quote it as a payment method.

All Australian consumers with a Bank Account can then use that BPay number and pay it directly from their bank accounts or credit card over phone or internet.

This payment method ensures that the companies do not have access to our personal banking details; unlike setting up direct debit (either from a bank account or a credit card).
It doesn't allow for automatic payments; you have to go in and authorise a payment to the specific company for the specific amount. Takes 2 days to clear.

And it isn't necessarily free - the banks have the discretion to charge for the service and a very few of them do. At the moment, banks are charging the companies for the fee of handling each transaction. It is a very small charge but given the volume of traffic, it does add up to a significant amount of money.

How do I know? Well, given that I was previously working on a project at a large TelCo that was looking to "encourage" direct debit payments, I found out a lot more about BPay than I would have liked! Just goes to show that there is no such thing as useless info!

I guess PayPal might be the closest on a global scale.

 

[DisneyFirefly]

 

[PrincessInOz]

 

[DisneyFirefly]

 

[franandaj]