The Daily Peeve / Rant

[sweetana3]

Peeve. Common sense is totally missing. Went to Einstein Bagels for a refill coffee and a bagel. No you cannot use your refill cup but we will handle and give you a paper cup to use over at the refill station. Then you can pour that coffee into your refill plastic container. So I went to the coffee station and noticed that every customer has to handle the coffee urn handle and the creamer containers to fill their supposedly safer paper cups.

So instead of one employee handling the cup and filling it, I am actually exposed to every customer's "germs". I just thought it was so crazy and went ahead and had my coffee in my own cup.

[Tradd]

sweetana, that’s policy everywhere due to covid. I’ve seen people try to do that at a truck stop and stopped by an employee.

[sweetana3]

(Do know it is because of covid) No one touches the refill cup but me and it touches nothing else. I place it under the spout of the coffee urn. Then I proceed to touch all the handles that are not sanitized. Plus I take the paper cup from an ungloved employee who handles credit cards and money (they did not have a card reader). The safest thing in the place for me is my refill cup that only I have touched.

I enjoyed my coffee and bagel but cannot get over the crazy lengths companies go to follow what they perceive as rules without common sense. The best in this situation would be to have masked and gloved employees (not the cashier) fill the paper cups behind the counter. But that is not their business plan.

First time we have gone to this business since before the pandemic. You can tell we do not visit coffee houses.

Our state is loosening up early April. Masks will be recommended but not mandated. Business rules will pretty much be back to pre pandemic rules.

[iris lilies]

Ok explain to me how the United
states government got my bank account info and was authorized to drop stimmy money into it.

Did they use my/our Social security accounts which granted, they use to drop in Social Security payment? Do they consider themselves authorized to use my bank account now for ANYTHING?

our first two payments of stim money came in the mail.

[Yppej]

IL do you have direct deposit of your income tax refunds?

[iris lilies]

IL do you have direct deposit of your income tax refunds?

nope

besides we never have an income tax refund.

[Alan]

nope

besides we never has an income tax refund.

How about a direct debit from your bank account for any federal taxes owed?

[ApatheticNoMore]

The usual route is via a refund, but if you pay electronically from a bank account and owe, I imagine they could have it from that too, but I'm not sure if they are using it. I can't imagine them bothering to save a bank account if one mails in a paper check.

[iris lilies]

How about a direct debit from your bank account for any federal taxes owed?

No debits.when we pay the I.R.S we send them a check. So of course they have account info via that, but they do not have my permission to muck around in my account.

I suppose by allowing Social Security payments into my bank account via direct deposit, The Whole of the US Gubmnt now thinks it has access to my account.

DH does not seem concerned about this. I don’t like it.

[pinkytoe]

Lots of entities have access to our bank account. Many people now set up auto withdrawals for payments and bills which is how so many Texans got screwed on their gas bill. I just went in to my utilities and stopped the auto pay feature. I had to go into the IRS site and enter my bank info for the firststim payment - not sure why they would have that info unless you were doing online taxes which I hadn't in previous years.