{"id":612,"date":"2009-09-04T14:52:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T18:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/612"},"modified":"2009-09-04T14:56:09","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T18:56:09","slug":"incompetence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/612","title":{"rendered":"Incompetence"},"content":{"rendered":"

I talk a lot about the 85% rule<\/a>, which states that at any given time, 85% of all people are idiots, or mailing it in, or both.<\/p>\n

But rarely do succinct manifestations get mailed to my door:
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[portions redacted by recipient]<\/p>\n

I’m not sure we should be so hasty, PSE&G. Do you really want to take this out of Unknown Unknown’s name so quickly when they’ve been such a loyal customer?<\/p>\n

Also, what exactly is your current mailing address on file for Unknown Unknown? Arlington National Cemetery, perhaps?<\/p>\n

Which begs the question of why you would send this notice to the old<\/em> mailing address. I look forward to next week, when I will receive a bill for $3,521.89 at this address, representing the total accrued costs for Unknown Unknown’s use of electricity.<\/p>\n

I am tempted to call them and claim to be Unknown Unknown, requesting service in my new location. In the meantime, I should go frame shopping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I talk a lot about the 85% rule, which states that at any given time, 85% of all people are idiots, or mailing it in, or both. But rarely do succinct manifestations get mailed to my door: [portions redacted by recipient] I’m not sure we should be so hasty, PSE&G. Do you really want to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,26],"tags":[5,67],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-just-add-photo","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-just-add-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}