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separately i wrote about having comm companies energetically lie about their service outages..
verizon was the biggest whopper, but the service person had a real p poor attitude
the land line company had a whopper lie to, but hard to tell over phone if he was smiling, his foreign accent was so strong.
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but the memory kept coming back. my employers retirement funds were handled by prudential. all of us employees felt good. retirement funds need to be in a safe place. until
i read that prudential (solid as a Rock or some similar ad) was applying for tarp bail out funds.
so, i called prudential the next morning.. they laughed in a friendly way and denied it.
so, i called my employer and inquired. personnel dept. denied it and aggravated that i would make such a statement.
so, i called back to prudential and worked my way up to various managers who all denied it then got a biggie wiggie who got mad. denied it, used all sorts of evasive techniques to avoid my question.
so, called back to personnel with question.. i was threatened with job loss for declaring this false info... our company had long proclaimed the importance of honest dealings within and without the company.
so, i shut up. getting a paycheck was important. pay was steady, but not big.
bottom line. prudential was lying, they had applied, and gotten approved, but never took the money, i learned years later.
my employer got new top management. the importance of telling the truth diminished. (sad and long story)
if our comm companies lie to us so easily. if our financial institutions lie to us so easily. whew. pretty good sign that things are going the wrong direction.
so, thank goodness our government is shooting straight when we hear from them, isn't it? was that a lie or me being a smart @ss
verizon was the biggest whopper, but the service person had a real p poor attitude
the land line company had a whopper lie to, but hard to tell over phone if he was smiling, his foreign accent was so strong.
--
but the memory kept coming back. my employers retirement funds were handled by prudential. all of us employees felt good. retirement funds need to be in a safe place. until
i read that prudential (solid as a Rock or some similar ad) was applying for tarp bail out funds.
so, i called prudential the next morning.. they laughed in a friendly way and denied it.
so, i called my employer and inquired. personnel dept. denied it and aggravated that i would make such a statement.
so, i called back to prudential and worked my way up to various managers who all denied it then got a biggie wiggie who got mad. denied it, used all sorts of evasive techniques to avoid my question.
so, called back to personnel with question.. i was threatened with job loss for declaring this false info... our company had long proclaimed the importance of honest dealings within and without the company.
so, i shut up. getting a paycheck was important. pay was steady, but not big.
bottom line. prudential was lying, they had applied, and gotten approved, but never took the money, i learned years later.
my employer got new top management. the importance of telling the truth diminished. (sad and long story)
if our comm companies lie to us so easily. if our financial institutions lie to us so easily. whew. pretty good sign that things are going the wrong direction.
so, thank goodness our government is shooting straight when we hear from them, isn't it? was that a lie or me being a smart @ss
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