today’s work-related craziness
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bomberqueen17:
this is nuts. So, we use a program that downloads incoming orders from our various online stores, and collates them in one place, and we can generate shipping labels from inside this program. it’s pretty great, and works well. one of the things it also does is that it checks the addresses to make sure they’re valid before it generates the shipping label.
it kicked back an error for one particular item today, a cheap little thing we sell a ton of. what we usually do then is we just plop the offending address into Google to make sure it’s a real place. Sometimes it’s a typo, and we fix that. Sometimes it’s just– the program doesn’t recognize it but Street View does.
In this case, what came up was not a house but, like, this insane compound, nestled right up on the side of a goddamn Rocky Mountain. We looked at the satellite view and were like… dag yo, what the fuck IS that???
So we Googled the name of the customer, because no way is that a real place a real person lives, that’s got to be like a school or something, right?
and
hoo boy!
Hoo boy.
She had an Instagram. Lots of photos of mountain views, scenery. Dogs, lots of dogs. her, and an older dude. She’s in her 40s or 50s, he’s like, 70. Enjoying that outdoor living in Colorado. Oh she’s into Crossfit. Cool. Who the heck is he, though?
Well.Another, like, thirty seconds of Googling, and we find out:
He got out of minimum-security prison in 2014 on charges of bribing foreign officials, after the Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal. He was involved in a scheme to cash in on the privatization of Azerbaijan’s state-run oil company, spearheaded by a notorious Czech fraudster.
Who, the articles about him mention, as they talk about his famous lavish lifestyle, owns a $20-million dollar compound on the side of a mountain in Colorado. … Uh. One of the articles was from a Colorado paper so they said which mountain.
Yeah, same one. They’re living in the fugitive Czech’s estate.
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oh i never came back to update– the package was returned to us, USPS wouldn’t deliver to the address.
When Coworker looked back in our system, he noticed that this same person has ordered this same item from us twice before and it was delivered correctly, to the same address, both prior times.
weird
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bomberqueen17:
this is nuts. So, we use a program that downloads incoming orders from our various online stores, and collates them in one place, and we can generate shipping labels from inside this program. it’s pretty great, and works well. one of the things it also does is that it checks the addresses to make sure they’re valid before it generates the shipping label.
it kicked back an error for one particular item today, a cheap little thing we sell a ton of. what we usually do then is we just plop the offending address into Google to make sure it’s a real place. Sometimes it’s a typo, and we fix that. Sometimes it’s just– the program doesn’t recognize it but Street View does.
In this case, what came up was not a house but, like, this insane compound, nestled right up on the side of a goddamn Rocky Mountain. We looked at the satellite view and were like… dag yo, what the fuck IS that???
So we Googled the name of the customer, because no way is that a real place a real person lives, that’s got to be like a school or something, right?
and
hoo boy!
Hoo boy.
She had an Instagram. Lots of photos of mountain views, scenery. Dogs, lots of dogs. her, and an older dude. She’s in her 40s or 50s, he’s like, 70. Enjoying that outdoor living in Colorado. Oh she’s into Crossfit. Cool. Who the heck is he, though?
Well.Another, like, thirty seconds of Googling, and we find out:
He got out of minimum-security prison in 2014 on charges of bribing foreign officials, after the Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal. He was involved in a scheme to cash in on the privatization of Azerbaijan’s state-run oil company, spearheaded by a notorious Czech fraudster.
Who, the articles about him mention, as they talk about his famous lavish lifestyle, owns a $20-million dollar compound on the side of a mountain in Colorado. … Uh. One of the articles was from a Colorado paper so they said which mountain.
Yeah, same one. They’re living in the fugitive Czech’s estate.
Keep reading
oh i never came back to update– the package was returned to us, USPS wouldn’t deliver to the address.
When Coworker looked back in our system, he noticed that this same person has ordered this same item from us twice before and it was delivered correctly, to the same address, both prior times.
weird
(Your picture was not posted)
