{"id":1965,"date":"2008-09-14T23:16:20","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T06:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2008-09-14T23:16:21","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T06:16:21","slug":"the-evil-of-qwest-seeps-into-my-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1965","title":{"rendered":"The evil of Qwest seeps into my bill."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so it&#8217;s not all Qwest&#8217;s fault, but they&#8217;re adding charges from other companies to the bill now. My phone bill has a new monthly $14.95 charge from a voicemail company, &#8220;Voicemail Direct USA&#8221;, my mom&#8217;s has a $8.43 monthly charge from some random telecom company, &#8220;Info Billing&#8221;. I was only able to get in touch with the voicemail company and they told me the charge had be approved by a Mr. Bai-tem-ee. My conversation with the company was odd:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The charge was approved on August XX by Mr. James Bai-tem-ee. Do you know Mr. Bai-tem-ee?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve never heard of a James Bai-tem-ee. How do you spell that? I may be mishearing you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>B-Y-T-E-M-E.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. BITE ME? Is this some kind of a joke?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So my guess is that there&#8217;s some sort of scam, just like spam, where a scammer is adding these small charges to a lot of people&#8217;s bills and is just figuring that a few people won&#8217;t notice.<\/p>\n<p>I was sore the last half of last week because of Cindy and now I&#8217;m expecting to be sore from the workouts from the past two days. I attended the Mountain Athlete seminar and if I actually had my CSCS from the NCSA I would have 1.6CEU. What does this really mean? Well, I figure that if THMFIC and the Brains Behind the Gym win the lottery, I&#8217;ll have some more idea of how to structure my own workouts without having to immediately find a new trainer. Or, if I won the lottery and wanted to lose it all quickly, I could open my own gym. I understand the money would diminish at a rapid rate, approaching but not reaching the rate that I&#8217;d lose money if I opened a restaurant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so it&#8217;s not all Qwest&#8217;s fault, but they&#8217;re adding charges from other companies to the bill now. My phone bill has a new monthly $14.95 charge from a voicemail company, &#8220;Voicemail Direct USA&#8221;, my mom&#8217;s has a $8.43 monthly charge from some random telecom company, &#8220;Info Billing&#8221;. I was only able to get in touch with the voicemail company and they told me the charge had be approved by a Mr. Bai-tem-ee. My conversation with the company was odd: The charge was approved on August XX by Mr. James Bai-tem-ee. Do you know Mr. Bai-tem-ee? I&#8217;ve never heard of a James Bai-tem-ee. How do you spell that? I may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1965\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The evil of Qwest seeps into my bill.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1966,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions\/1966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}