The nightmare begins from “day-one” ‘cept in this horror show you never wake up until you have called every government agency, ... Globally, then you are threatened in writing or Email to return the items, you are threatened with theft or fraud of items shipped to you in someone else’s name, your credit is under attack placed under attack by the company you bought it from.
THE CORPORATE PLOT UNFOLDS
One would think that buying a new computer, a laptop wireless computer, a state of the art computer, a customized to your specifications computer, an expensive beyond your budget computer, would be somewhat exciting, a pleasant experience; had you not walked into the Freddie Krueger buzz saw of computer companies, HPshopping.com, a subset-sub-entity-sub-par-out-source division of the parent corporation HP Technology, Hewlett Packard of Palo Alto California. One would think that police brutality in the inner city would have nothing to do with such joyous events, one would think that corporate privilege would also be far removed from such times of pride in happy to have bought a Compaq computer. How wrong could one be!!!
All one has to do in these days of low interest hi competitive spirit of the times, where first time home buyers get $500,000 loans at the bargain interest rates of the century, is to go to a website order an “off-the-shelf” or custom configured computer or as they call the more upscale models, “a CTO”, “Configured to Order”, and as I call it THE NIGHTMARE. Slam bang thank you mama and your on your way as soon as it is delivered; WRONG HACKER BREATH, there are some “iffy” bumps in the road” to computer heaven;
a) when it is delivered or if it is delivered,
b) if it is new or refurbished or defective or damaged
c) you have sent back 3 keyboards and mouse(s) (or is that mice(s) or meece(s)), 1 Thumb drive, a very clever way of taking your private materials wherever you go and is 3 times smaller than your flip-cell phone. The item, a joy to own No Way! A total of 5 items returned and reordered, twelve times waiting for the shipment from hell to be delivered, then picked up only to
d) do it again, still counting, are the days and weeks and months rolling by after which you are still sitting with not one but two computers, the second and third computer shipped after the first defective one was returned, 2 Compaq Notebooks “configured-to-order” the “machines from hell”, still waiting for the appropriate Return Authorizations Labels designating the item you received as opposed to a misplaced item presumably someone else’s nightmare also held captive in the hellish scheme. The labels which never arrive, then the news hits home,
e) one of the state of the art cutting edge computers in your possession which does not belong to you, due to an attempt by the company(s) Hewlett Packard and Hpshopping.com to placate your sense and that that as a consumer you hold dear that you are entitled to get what you paid for, and must fight for such privilege,
f) the company(s) send you a computer that belongs to someone else after you have waited for FedEx to pick up these items, RA’ed (return authorized), multiple times over a five month period of time under the so called no questions asked 30 day return guarantee policy and you have not got the opportunity to use the item for what you had intended because you are too busy downloading and installing software, EXAMING THE NUMEROUS DEFECTIVE COMPONENTS, then wiping-out all the work only to have to send it back so you can wait another month to get to work...
Like clock work and quicksand the computers arrive by FedEx or picked up by UPS and the cycle of frustration starts over again like groundhog day.. Then there are the endless telephone queues (or is that, queue) waiting for “tech support professionals” to determine if the computer needs to be returned within the 30 day window no questions asked period. When called via telephone the “technical support professionals”, an overstated misnomer created by Microsoft after having graduated thousands of “"techies"” worldwide at taxpayer expense, would more aptly be named “the shareholder international tax drainage torture out-source squads, “corporate epaulet’s” as this author refers to the trigger mechanism of the corporate trap.
The epaulets exist at numerous “DOT.com” internet addresses. They are the united front of the multiples of multi-national companies across multiple continents who make it a practice to waste your time and tax dollar, paid to educate them; they exist in the 24 hour world across all time zones. Many are employed by the Converges Company a massive conglomerate partnered with Microsoft and HP, the design of which is that the company provides the international real estate and computer hardware that houses the “Epaulets”, support professionals. ‘Epaulets” are the spearhead of a global corporate featherbedding scheme which would make Enron executives envious, that make domestic union feather bedding of the past look like finch-down compared to the vulture-down of the support professionals.
The issue of the out-sourcing of these jobs will become the destruction of the American middle class when the companies that out-sourced their labor decide it is profitable to in-source (import) the labor ostensibly opening the borders to anyone who wears a corporate epaulet, their house keepers gardeners and auto-mechanics and taxi drivers having been part of the trans-border land rush immigration 10 years prior.
The chance of retirement fades with the exporting of our taxes across the borders by a politicians so arrogantly called the terminator.
The Horror! The future of insurrection on the horizon congress and unions will be helpless to stop the clamber of incense burning techies from china and India from prancing over the borders with expertise in competition with Americans that have humongous credit card debt, college loans to repay and minimum wage laws that prevent the competition from being on a level playing field with the itinerant grapes of Windows wrath! Microsoft having been punished by the United States Justice Department, loosing as much as 50 billion in the consent decree limiting the reach of the third party dominance the company places on third party uses has over the pre-installed software distributed by ”partners” of Microsoft.
It is almost a sacrilege to suggest that Microsoft should be precluded from monopolistic practices world wide. As if the company would be likely to be loyal to the American consumer public as would a home-grown nationalist might have been prior to WWII is at best naive. The promise of return of benefit to the American economy was diminished by the precipitous fall from grace of the DOT.COM at the turn of the millennium. The domestic tech support professional was critical to worldwide control of markets by Microsoft. The jobs domestically were out-sourced to India, Utah having lost employment ground to Microsoft’s Global strategy was the tip of the cash cow where the taxpayer was going to pay through the foreign screw department while the Justice Departments efforts to shackle Microsoft was discarded like King Kong un-shackled prior to climbing the Empire State Building and swatting the military as Fay Ray fainted dead away. No happy ending here, the plot thickens and the tax coffers thin, the inner city and the minority issues symbolized in King Kong were inhibited by the very tool created by Microsoft, the operating system. Bill Gates was on the world wide monitor, his momentum had been temporarily slowed, but his megalomania, ambition was not.
The freedom from domestic legal copyright and patent restrictions was strategically crucial to the company, seeking to arrest copyright privileges of consumers. The company in theory objected to domestic shackles to restrict consumers from copying the operating system software, But, the loss was significant to Microsoft, they were now literally and figuratively on the global monitor. But all there partners were not, as in Fantasia, Merlin’s broom closet was forced to accommodate a host more of brooms, Bill Gates had acquired partners he had not known existed and he was able to do all of this with a four dollar haircut and an Alfred E. Newman Smile.
The concept behind the objections to such limitations by the Justice Department charges by the company is quite simple. If they were not permitted to extends their dominance over such “casual pirates”, those who would dare to make multiple copies of the operating system for use on multiple home computers would not only dip into the pocket of Microsoft but would cripple their global aspirations . The question revolved around the source code and the out-sourcing of jobs. The underlying language of the Windows Operating System was at issue. Was the design of electronic intellectual property a patent or copyright issue? Could I create a hammer then under the patent, restrict someone who bought it from using it in more than one room of their home or giving it to a friend who wanted to build their own home with the hammer I designed. Could I restrict the use of the hammer by license. Bill went a step further, he partnered with companies like Hewlett Packard sold licenses to the company to place the software on the computers Hewlett Packard sold and then attempted to condition the consumers use of the computer hardware via the warranty rights that attached to the system.
But I digress with good reason:
Microsoft’s international aspirations strike at the heart of their claim that casual piracy infringements on private use are well founded. They are “patently” not! When looking at the structure of the out-source of companies “partnered” with Microsoft, having Military contracts and writing off their international blunders at the expense of the domestic employee pensions and stockholders and the small consumers that invest their futures in an operating system that does not correctly or effectively work with products their partners manufacture in countries that neither care or respect the good faith or commitment of the American marketplace and ultimately abuse the good faith of the consumer is the problem in capsulated. The blunders are nothing less than international bowel movements.
The problems are more complex than just a singular megalithic company partnering, while pitted against the wealth of the American taxpayer, when companies with military contracts like Hewlett Packard can not only avoid taxes but remove the taxpayer’s monies across the border the plot thickens, the demise of the American economy not unreasonably the consequence of the greed.
Megalithic multi-billion dollar corporations are now united in a manner of there most feared nemesis of the bygone era, communism. The nightmare haunting siren screams out, Corporate Hacks and rip-off of the world unite.
ENRONIZE NOW!
Good god they are free at last, to pillage at the behest of the American taxpayer while America’s very existence is threatened under the greed driven by leadership ignorance. When contacting the press room, Campaign to Elect Kerry for President after giving the press person the gist of the issues from product liability out-sourcing and tax theft, his retort was, this is not a campaign issue and then the phone went, click.
Yet the confusions of the Kerry campaign inner sanctum was not hip to a past public outcry by John Kerry who promises to recapture 12 billion dollars of lost revenue, if elected, losses due to global out-sourcing by corporate America. Denied as a campaign issue spreading, now freely, the corporate arrogance, its privatized corruption exploiting the tax dollar resources of private consumer sales as the Madame in a brothel who picks pockets of clients engaged in the fulfillment of their desires.
The stockholder along with the taxpayer (one-in-the same), inevitably pays for an hourly-wage-out-source-wish-come-true, a 7 to 12 hour support session across the international dateline at the expense of the customers’ “free time” good nature and fear of being “hanged-up, upon” (or is that “hung-up on”) or being accidentally disconnected during the call due to the local Telco (telephone company’s) problems with your DSL line only to be intentionally internationally disconnected in the hopes of India to “palm-you-off” (no “connection” to a palm-pilot”), on to the Canadians “a veritable support professional techie butcher shop, if it wasn't’t broke it soon will be” so as to get rid of the “tough warranty-problem customers” making the company support success rate appear as the quality control heaven it is not.
The bottom statistical line of the existence, look good for the stockholder, India in competition for the jobs with Canada. The customers are driven back, beat back to the phone queues if they are not cooperative, giving private information across local, state and international borders to employees that have no idea what the luxury and privilege of privacy is all about nor would they care if they did.
They demand under the guise of corporate policy to extract full social security numbers, opting for the last four numbers should a customer get irate about such arrogance in the name of corporate policy. The company(s) demand information that arguably only a proctologist or gynecologist would need.
The least of the consequence of such private information grab are that you may have subjected yourself to being spammed and exposed to computer virus and malware and badgered by email whence you know not where it emanated from unless you buy the upgraded versions of the 30 trial software that came with your computer whereby your warranty is voided if you do not use it. Might one suspect that the people that sold you the cure had created the virus?
Random chance plays heavily on your ability to get satisfaction after being placed back in the telephone queue, if you can remember why you called in the first place and not having hung up out of your own desire to express a non-professional manner of frustration. In testing these inadequacies of services having experienced them first hand confirming with Hewlett Packard the problem, this author logged 308 telephone calls in approximately five months in an attempt to resolve the company’s arrogant manner of dumping the problem on the paying customer. The sales force, the tech support consumer lines the commercial lines department, the military government contract department was also queried, then the corporate offices and finally the office of the CEO Carly Fiorina, a hard nose business woman emanating out of the bowels of Lucent technology now selling for little more than 3 dollars a share after having risen to the summit of over 100 less than 5 years ago. I digress; that is certainly an issue for further investigation. Continuing, India’s arch rival Canada, per-chance, picks the ailing customer problem out of the transferred call queue and gets stuck with the unsolvable problem when the customer gets re-queues-ed (that’s phonetically pronounced, “re-ca-weed”). Out-sourced the customer is hurled internationally back into the telephone queue by the “support-professional” in India.
The customer begins to catch wind of being of the serious issues after repeating this “real life computer game” procedure on the third go-round of returns and endless tech support contacts that do not find resolve, each time a “NEW” DEFECTIVE PRODUCT IS DELIVERED replacing the former defective product, the SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL(S) sessions are artificially prolonged beyond the ten minutes it should have taken, the sessions LASTING UP TO TWELVE STRAIGHT HOURS ACROSS THE GLOBAL DATELINE SPANNING 2 CALENDAR DATES, 11 TECH SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS CONTRIBUTING THEIR CONFUSIONS AS if they knew what they were doing, the stockholder paying the phone bill, the customer the Guinea-pig for the high tech high stakes product, they gamble the consumer’s time and financial credit, cannibalized by the defective products assembly line located in Shanghai China and Thailand, the manufacturer labor working for “coolie” wages. Does anyone doubt the Governor of California who insists he will bring the corporations back to America, while the World Headquarters of one very successful California major supplier of memory is presently under construction in Shanghai China.
But I digress again:
Such issues of out-sourcing had been observed first hand by this author, establishing a Wireless Microsoft Base Station MN700 configuration. The task involved 11 tech support people to do the deed at the expense of the shareholders, the two multi-national tech squads both in India and their counterparts in the United States simultaneously ripping the taxpayer/shareholder a new balance sheet. The MN700 is necessary for the wireless connection of a computer to the internet, providing such wonderful attractions to the computer world as wireless chat rooms at Starbucks and other gathering places other than the historical “Bar Scenes” meat shops now converted to nerd shops.
What is still further of notable interest, the fact of the same company, Hpshopping.com that sold me the item, separate entity, is a division of Hewlett Packard Company the “parent company partnered with Microsoft to provide such technical strategic wizardry melding the “united front” SKIMMING AMERICA domestically while globally attempting the same veiled dominance, not to mention the profitable arrogance of collecting taxes locally while exporting jobs wherever they go crippling free trade and commerce in the name and identity of free enterprise, it sure is but not in behalf of the for the American consumer.
THE ACTUAL TIME NECESSARY TO HAVE THE TASK COMPLETED WAS 15 MINUTES NOT 8 HOURS. CA-CHING, I HEAR ENRON STOCKHOLDERS TURNING IN THEIR PREMATURE GRAVES
One often gets consoled when bringing the absurdity to the attention of HP Corporate Headquarters in the United States. THE CUSTOMER RELATIONS Advocate experts identify the exorbitant time frame necessary to resolve technical issues as one of language, despite the fact everyone is speaking English. As for the 45 minutes to get someone to attempt to resolve the issues only after one is sucked into the telephone queue, one never does get resolve nor does the continuing anguish of the customer experiences ever fade, a case number is only sometimes assigned to the nightmare that has no sunny morning coffee break, the horror, the horror, it just keeps going month after month ... and they wonder why Ralph Nader runs for office, might it be that he had owned or presently owns 4.5 million dollars of Cisco, a company that makes the uplink switching for ground-to-satellite-to-ground communications, the stuff the big boys use for high speed information transfers!!!
The “mullet-customer”, as perceived by one sadistic sales person named Jason at HpShopping.com (The name Jason seems to be a favorite alias used by the sales personnel, claiming the U.S. Homeland Security Act allows for such evasive tactics to protect the company privacy at the expense of the customer sanity even though the sales people are in Canada. Works for me, but isn’t the Homeland Security Act supposed to protect me from marauding rip-offs in Canada who seek to unload defective product as a custom and practice.
The defective computers go back to China with personal recoverable private information still in data form on the hard drives rife for the picking. Might this also be at issue with U. S. Military contracts and returns of defective merchandise?
The BlogOneDos, got suspicious of the alias routine after three sales representatives, their supervisors and customer service employees within 60 minutes stated their names as being, you got it, Jason. Suspicion was heightened, when one female sales person, the fourth imposter, said that her name was also Jason while referring to the inquiry about 0% financing, the customer was referred to as the “mark”, “...the “mark” (the customer) she described, “gets ample time to contemplate their navel while meditating on why any company gives 0% interest and 0 payments for twelve months.” I am still pondering the remark... OM!
Not to wonder anymore, the unsuspecting “mark” is 5 of the 12 months into the re-queue-ed support professionalism, the repetition of RETURN MERCHANDISE NIGHTMARE darkening, as the consumer is ultimately enlightened, the finance company’s invoice, a revealing factor, “hits home”. The customer does not have the guaranteed satisfaction having been satisfied after numerous items have been returned and then repurchased, or for that matter the rebate, has not been rebated, absent is a discernible itemized accounting, the discount coupons impossible to track as credited, nor are the price reductions and price guarantees been decipherable, nor has the “new” CTO, customized computer” as ordered 4 months prior been finally delivered, missing still the joy, the peace of mind you originally expected, nor have you completed your work, the reason for the purchase in the first place. If you had a mind to begin with, it was out-sourced, left at the end of the corporate gold-brick road. Looming is a penalty of full interest accrued for twelve months if the confusions are not resolved and pay-off is not honored 100% to the penny, paid by the 12th month. The consumer has now been identified as “MARK”
Though you may be inclined to think that the price of computers is dropping, computers do not come cheap these days, the one I ordered was more than $2300 dollars including the so called EXTENDED warranty services. As the interest accrues at a prevailing rate of almost 19% in the event the terms of full payment have not been met by judgment day, the 12th month. As the plot thickens one begins to see that the impossible quest of figuring out the cost of items purchased and repurchased and returned and then returned again and again, the interest clock ticks... Tick tock tick tock.
As the Finance POLY-TICKS keep ticking the time trap is set to catch the unsuspecting customer in the corporate credit dungeon. In order to avail oneself of the very attractive looking package that should place anyone at ease about such an ambitious expenditure, one must hurdle past the Hindi common screw department, when seeking technical support. But, not to stop there one encounters the blue screw department immediately after the common screw department, you see, ...India throws support professional bodies at defective products as an innovative technical solutions scheme dividing the products into model and serial numbers whereby the specialization is geared for the richest of the Hindi commodities, human confusion. Enter the “Golden Screw” professionals. But, India ingenuity does not stop there as you are led to believe, by being passed to the next department, the Golden Screw Department;” it will be the last stop, yes the last stop before the phone goes click and your in the phone queue level 1 again which has been re-named in your absence to the royal screw department and you then hear a recorded announcement,
“If you want to make a call, hang-up and try again.”
I must herein remark that never has anyone in India presented themselves in a hostile or impolite fashion, in fact that is the disarming technique of a people who have mastered the art of devotional love to ideals which are as powerful and disarming as any attempt to be non-professional. Now! If that type of professionalism does not add insult to injury or might not have been enough to prompt you to express, “expletive deletive” ( a term reminiscent of the Nixon years) one needs to realize that the jobs market in India as cheap yet over-qualified as the labor might be is still subject to competition for the jobs with Canada.
The Canadian contingency has one big ego tripping competitive head-trip game as interesting as any international Olympic Games had you the customer not been the official game, jump-ball. Apparently, confusions are created by manipulation of identifying numbers the stuff that excuses and White lies are made of until they become the stuff of bait and switch of products that have plausible denial as a cover to their scandalous arrogance and defective manufacture. You, as customer, are ordered, to do what they say or lose the warranty service.
As one submits to overbearing dominance you are instructed to destroy your data and wipe out the hard disc causing the necessity for the product to be returned and the month long wait for another customized computer is visited on your by-pass surgeon, once again.
Now we come to the smoking gun;
THE SMOKING GUN OR MORE APTLY PUT
SMOKING COMPUTER
Serial numbers, product numbers and model numbers seem to add to the infighting that India passes to Canada when they are hard pressed to address the problems of the customers technical support needs. They are given incentives to get the job done quick and efficiently, so states Nipun, a Hindi based employee who described the team effort, where India is pitted against the Canadian “epaulets,” the “support professionals.”
From the clients perspective the NUMBERS are supposed to be just another way to determine,
WUZ IN THE BOX or WHOSE COMPUTER is IN THE BOX when the BOX is IN THE HOUSE
But as fate would have it "Wuz in the box ? and Whose it belongs to? and Whose gonna fix it?" is attached to the numbers game and if the numbers do not match then nobody is gonna fix it under the warranty or accept return for the box so you git another fresh nightmare.
The problem relative to this concept is that it caps out as being an ill spirited, misconcieved hair brained scheme of internal-out-source-competition. The warring factions forget the sufferings of the customer getting disconnected after 1 hour in the queue, the caller’s only crime, desiring relief from yet another “new” defective computer.
Now the issue becomes the stuff that make dog whistles so attractive. You can call the dog home and nobody hears it but you and the dog or until BlogOneDos blows the whistle. Such compromise of a NEW COMPUTER is treacherous and requires that each and every aspect of a new system be scrutinized to the nth degree. Might this be the Chinese retailation with Americans for bugging a 707 sold to the President of the Peoples Reepublic. Part of the company justification for continually sending the BlogOneDos computer after computer and key board and mouse after keyboard and mouse is the way in which the company utilizes the intelligence factor of the customer to monitor the products coming in from China. Throw another computer at the customer and see what passes for acceptable defects.
During one enduring episode of tech support configuring a "new" defect and installing the O.E.M. Software, it was discovered after assigning the customary user name that the computer came up with someone elses name... a cryptic NUMBER that said
"You are #G4 0934u2fu, ( The names have changed to protect the innocent). The name as described attached itself to any name that was created as a user on the computer and did not disappear nor did it appear in a visible customary fashion it was discoverd per chance.
Not Until the BlogOne Dos figured out that such antics were the stuff of spy movie games whereby the "manufacturer or other interested parties" could regain the private data contained on the system when returned to China or given to another unsuspecting "mark".
Homeland Security could care less includee in that the FBI and CIA.
The resolve of the issue if caught could have been address with a lengthy computer low level format had the computer not been formated in such a manner that removal of the "unremovable" sector would void the warranty. It must be said that this was not a virus because it came "factory" pre-installed with "the New defective computer"
So, if you catch them cheating, they void your warranty. The pursuit of the issues entail the customer being passed between software companies and hardware companies... and one never sleeps in the hell hole of 24 hour tech support.
Issues of protecting ones private telephone numbers and security and getting a timely return call after being dropped multiple times makes the warranty service not practical, internationally. Failure to receive a return call is common.. Client, corporate relationships become stressed and are consequential for the complete breakdown of the communications essential to resolve problems. The author finds Hewlett Packard and Hpshopping.com to be a mash pit of failed sales support and product quality control associated with high ticket products. The obligations of responsibility is continually passed from scores of departments until frustration is the only product the company(s) sells.
The ability to reconnect to the support professional half -way-round the world is near impossible , if at all, in less than 45 minutes.
The caller is passed down an international gauntlet, a procession of “support professionals” not recognizing the data base identifying numbers including your “address physical”, as opposed to but also including your “address non-physical” your social security number and your product identifying numbers.
After 20 minutes of intake you are chastised due to your lack of professionalism when screaming in the telephone and pulling-out the last patches of hair you have left on your head... And your computer is only 12 hours “new” but forever defective.
My wife knew less about me after 25 years of marriage than the support professionals on three continents.
Product Serial number and tracking numbers in advance of the shipment merchandise would obviate many of the problems that ensued identification being a massive problem when considering international identify theft and the breakdown of HP world wide communications and out-source scheme. When considering this last issue, one must not get in bed with the serial number confusions being manipulated by the out-sourced company and the sales force of Hpshopping.com unless you want the greedy types to threaten fraud and theft after they ship you products you did not order and then demand you send them back. Beware! Your problems never having resolve, Along about now in your abduction of your good faith and nature the company asks you to take a customer satisfaction survey… DUH! Pass the cyanide!!! If that “in’t” enough nightmares department: We now come to the real beef;
PANHANDLING FOR TAX DOLLARS
where the gold in “dem dere hills” is found!
0 % 0 PAYMENTS FOR 12 MONTHS
One begins to glean the attraction of the here kitty kitty, at the heart of buying one of these “dot com mind-traps” is a Venus fly trap, the opportunity to not pay for the items for 12 months. …No interest and not payments for 12 months.
5 months into the finance game, the company is offering a buy back for the same price you paid after you have spent hundreds of hours waiting in queue, reformatting, testing dysfunctional batteries, being passed to Microsoft’s international rat maze so as to verify that the problems you are experiencing are hardware related and not software related. Then it dawns on you that you have been dealing with corporate veils across state and international borders and they have charged you $200 dollars local sales tax and the company writes off the expenses while yanking your chain in multiple fiscal years, ... and the stockholder never sees the international bottom line Like stealth aircraft moving across the horizon in the night the tax dollars disappear across the border and around the world to India and Canada. The company buying favors of employment while the consumer gets the hang-up.
The California Out-of-State-auditor is helpless, often too limited in their abilities to chase the missing sales tax funds across state lines let alone international borders. Then to add insult to highway robbery the sales tax sections of exemptions are written into the state codes which protect the friends of the governor, holding them harmless if found to be doing business within the state, the loopholes interface with the rebates, price guarantee, price drops and discount coupons. The consumer is burdened with the tax and the arrogance of the company providing the golden and royal screw services as a standard included in the price.
Few give the tax collector a second thought, except when the consumer is asked to cover the deficit of their leadership having provided the incentives for corporate America to vault across the border like Mexican immigrants heading in the opposite direction… no wonder there little to no interest in border control there is so much activity coming and going, the corporations leaving with your tax dollar and the Mexican human flood have-nots following the road to the age old American dream.
This author has little lost love for the tax collector but when the Governor, wears $17,500 dollar boots, asks the California taxpayer to cough up a $17 billion dollar bond issue and his supporters are given the green light to jump across state and national borders, evading issues of ethical and moral content, if not legally questionable, one needs only to look at the vacuum the lost tax dollar growing impact, accumulating the seeds of in the inner city collapse, once again, where the police resolve problems in fighting crime violently ravaging the first hit areas of tax drain, illustrating oh so graphically, the plight of the inner city, subjected to violence driven by out-sourcing jobs and opportunity. The “flight” of corporate America to counties states and countries ready to work sometimes for 40 to 70 percent less. the design of such behavior is reminiscent of the white-flight of the mid 70’s where the issue was bussing of students from inner cities to the neighbors getting the tax buck or vice in an attempt to resist the social engineering precluding the have-nots from the benefits of society. The irony is that the same reactionary corporate structure of the 70’s is targeting a political hot-potato, a strategy, of a burning prophetic nature, the brutality that awaits a city void of the tax dollar. The vacuum of funding creates poverty zones cementing the potential of a inner city unrest, a legacy that cities like Los Angeles know oh so well. In the parlance of the very powerful hardware peddlers around the world, the omissions of conscience are a “NULL” abstaining from their “homeland obligations” grabbing only, for the shrinking profits of a market heading south since the late 90’s they create the environments, the seeds of their maniacal informational scheme to rule the world has no limits they also take the tax dollar with them. The corporation takes the tax dollar ear marked for community improvements improving their bottom lines leaving behind the rampage to come.
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In checking with the board of Sales and Use tax division, in this case, the California State Board of Equalization, the Board has a difficult time in collecting un-paid taxes by major corporations in a state that is panhandling the taxpayer for billions of dollars of bond issues in a failing budget battle pitted against Arnold Shwarzenegger and his supporters none other than HP, Hewlett Packard, reporting revenues of 19 Billion Dollars last year against the reluctant Californian constituency who has been “Enron-ed” to near bankruptcy. 60 billion in debt. Californians are continually asked for more taxes when the contributors to the governor’s coffers “out-source” their fair share... CONSTITUENTS JOBS AND THEIR FUTURES!
There is a hole in the bucket. One staff member within the office of finance wishing to remain anonymous referred to the matter retorting, “This is not new.”
BlogOneDos did not invent crime and most crime is not new, but the comment raises anger. If it is not new then you have certainly had 30 years, enough time to contemplate your own government navels and come up with a resolution to prevent riots in our inner cities because friends of government get to be privileged in our courts and congress while foreign based companies gut the resources of a great city like Los Angeles the gateway to the orient not a scavenged carcass of industry.. THE SAME Governor of the state that boasts the 5th largest economy in the world, CALIFORNIA, GOVENOR SWARZNEGGER, produced and starred in TOTAL RECALL, A FILM made in Mexico for a budget of $25 Million Dollars,. Only objection here considering the needy condition of Mexico is the fact that Californians elected a governor who is supposed to be an American representing the best interest of Californian not feeding the insatiable greed of global industry in exchange for a long shot at a run for the presidency. This author believes that the odds for that to happen are slim to none.
The Governor makes idol claims; he is going to bring business back to California. I think he will succeed only after he has exported all the jobs and all the services to BOMBAY, NEW DEHLI, BANGLORE, BRITISH COLUMBIA NOVA SCOTIA AND THAILAND SHANGHAI AND MANILA in an effort to export an American crusade around the world.
This opinionated journalist, the BlogOneDos, wonders if the terminator will terminate his supporters ploy, continue looking the other way on issues of taxes owed Californian’s, forgive his supporters that portion of the unpaid taxes due hidden in the accountant’s secret handbooks, while further burdening the taxpayer in the tradition of Ronald Reagan blaming the ills of deficit on out of control government. Our Governor is panhandling for the privileged. He apparently sees the taxpayer, the “mark” consumer dollars galore, dollars to cover the ENRON executives and the lingering Enron debt, miraculously finding a billion tax dollars in the Indian Reservation gaming rooms as he eyes union pension funds that built the casinos. This game is more like a squirrel finding the hidden nuts.
The governor taxes, the government does not collect the tax, and then the government needs more tax... makes perfect sense if you are part of the privileged class that can afford to wear $17,500 hand made boots like the governor while the inner-city alleged felon gets bludgeoned in the streets because a vacuum of finance is being removed to China, Canada, India and the Philippines The consumer is getting the remanufactured parts, products infused back into the system under the watchful eye of the “Governor” who is committed to bringing business back to California.. . Looks good on the books... but where are the books? The problem resides in the state tax codes and friends of the governor who short change the customers and the state. The BlogOneDos refers the reader to the California Sales Tax website
(to link to the site hold cntrl key click while pointing to the link)
To see the top ten abusers of the sales tax in the State of California. There are abuses in every state.
Resources that could be putting more police on the streets, have better health care for the undocumented, more education for the buck, more drivers documentation for the foreigner and to the community services that are dearly needed for emergency situations as if this issue is not such an emergency. The Board of Equalization website is one piece of work, illustrating the tip of the iceberg that confirms that for every million dollar abuser “in-State”, corporate crime pays.
The billion dollar companies move their pea and shell game across international borders making the game one of catch as catch can vs. Corporate party line retort mouthed by the Governor that bringing business back to California is the first priority ...albeit, if you believe that one, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that is for sale... no sales tax will be charged if shipped out-of-state. I suggest we begin selling the government to the highest bidder but I fear we have already embarked upon that endeavor!
Which brings me to the HOME STRETCH? If I were lord, no too ambitious, If I were President, no, too impossible, if I were Governor of California, yes, anyone can obtain that office, my insider friends could make on average 8% “right off the top profit accounting line”, GROSS” gross sales! Considering General Motors often “caps-out” at less than 3% of the net, I would certainly opt for taking a hike across the Canadian border and give the jobs to India who can provide services for $375 a month for educated high quality professionals who hang the phone up on customers if the spirit moves them.
Now! The BlogOneDos never complains unless there is a remedy a resolve to this unique grab for the booty. BolgOneDos suggests that what is good for the gooses is good for the VULTURE... to wit:
TRUE GLOBALIZATION VS MULTI-NATIONAL GLOBAL CRONYISM
EXPORT THE GOVERNORS STAFF TO CANADA AND INDIA AND FOR THAT MATTER EXPORT AND OUT SOURCE THE ENTIRE BUSH GOVERNMENT TO CHINA.
LET 'EM EAT CAKE IT IS MORE THAN THE INNER CITY POOR ARE EATING!!!
As of press time the governor is threatening to make part time the offices of our legislators, because he has a political budget black eye. I almost agree with the hackneyed politic used more as a threat than a viable concept as in Oregon. I whole heartedly would proffer, a counter offer.
I would cut deeper, start with the Los Angeles, department of housing, (go three levels deep ) into the LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING Enforcement Division then head for the upper management who is not guilty of being a referral service they are guilty of not answering the telephone, ever!. Even the secretaries have voice mail.
REMEMBER THE GOVERNORS PROMISE TO CLEAN HOUSE TO WIT: AND CONSIDERING HIS $17,500 BOOTS LETS ALL SING TOGETHER;
OH GIVE ME A HOME WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM AND I'LL GIVE YOU A DIRTY HOME.
ONLY THING THE GOVERNOR CLEANED WAS THE TAXPAYERS' CLOCK!!
Then proceed down the list, of all STATE government staff, statewide starting with the governors office and for every day shift of 10 hours saved,
EMPLOY A COP ON THE BEAT… WALKING THE NEIGHBORHOOD BEAT, HAVE AN AUCTION OF THE GOVERNORS BOOTS AND DONATE THE MONEY TO THE FAMILY'S OF THE POLICE THAT HAVE DIED DEFENDING WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE EQUITABLE RULE OF LAW.
EMPLOY A CONSTRUCTION WORKER OR A CASINO UNION MEMBER OR SOMEONE TO STOP THE EFFLUGENTS OF DIRTY INDUSTRY FINDING ITS WAY INTO THE WATER TABLE VIA THE SEWER SYSTEMS
EMPLOY THE PUBLIC WORKS PEOPLE EMPLOY THE SHIRT-SLEEVES WILLING IMMIGRANTS YEARNING TO BE FREE AND WORK HARD FOR THE PRIVILEGE
EMPLOY THE DISABLED WHO WILL WORK JUST AS HARD AS ANYONE NOT PUMPING AIR THROUGH THEIR LIPS LIKE THE GOVERNOR PUMPING TAXES OUT OF STATE TO HIS SUPPORTERS "ENRONIZING CALIFORNIA" SETTING A TONE FOR THE NATIONAL ELECTIONS OF BUDGET TYRANNY
THEN GIVE THE REST OF THE JOBS TO OREGON WEST VIRGINIA, NEW MEXICO, UTAH AND 20 MORE ON THE LIST THAT WOULD NOT HANG THE PHONE UP LIKE THE GOLDEN SCREW ROYAL RIP OFFS IN INDIA AND CANADA
OUT SOURCE THE GOVERNOR TO AUSTRIA AND TELL HIS INDOLENT CORPORATE SUPPORTERS TO GO FETCH THE TAXES AND BRING IT BACK OR SPEND SOME TIME WITH KENNETH LAY AND TELL THE NON PRODUCTIVE UNION BOSSES WHO SAY THEY ARE WORKING ON THE PROBLEM FOR A LONG TIME WHILE THEY STACK THE OFFICES OF GOVERNMENT WITH INDOLENT INSIDERS, NON-PRODUCTIVE GOVERNMENT STAFFERS DRAINING THE TAX DOLLAR SETTING THE TONE FOR RACE RIOTS IN THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE.
I'LL PACK THE GOVERNORS LUNCH WHEN HE TAKES THE HIKE ACROSS THE BORDER WITH HIS FRIENDS!
Am I biased…. Am I a hopeless romantic, a zealot, a dreamer? No! I am mad as hell and a Cold Hearted Stone Sober Realist!!!
and I am an American born in America!
A part-time government as well as an out source government raises questions of CRONYISM which has recently drawn attention to the need to scrutinize surrounding communities where government staffers, hard up for more buck, the employees supplementing their incomes by "cornering the part-time opportunities in POLITICKS, in the small town market"; in a conflict-of interest, they manipulate this insidious poly-tick of the smaller cities surrounding larger communities. Creating the double-breasting-right-wing conspiracy! The political hacks looking to perpetuate their whimpish authority upon anyone they can. They become POLY-STAFFERS, (POLITICAL-STAFFERS), "The Trigger Mechanism" for the hellish nighmare that is to follow;
Already compromised is objectivity in numerous areas of state and local government not the least of which is the awarding of contracts in return for political support… So, what's new? What's new is the backside, the staffers utilize their employment exposure to access the big-wig politicians and corporate types, so as to show favoritism in return for support in turning the small town Mayoral jobs into windfall profits while their staff jobs and consulting services are suspect, a plausable seedling of a cancer which I call “Out-source-inbred-cronyism.” The inner city now worse off than ever becomes the inner sanctum by virtue of the exclusion from the quality jobs. The seeds of which gave the world a...
POLITICAL EQUIVALENT TO THE CAST OF DELIVERANCE AND A GOVERNOR THAT WANTS TO LEAD THE REPUBLICAN MOB of SUPPORTERS TO THE WASHING MACHINE OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC SALVATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CHILDREN
IN ORDER TO BE EQUITABLE,
THE PART-TIME -OUTSOURCING OF GOVERNMENT GOLD-BRICK JOBS IS BLOGONEDOS' EXCLUSIVE CONCEPT .
No one is to blame politically except the BlogOneDos who believes , do the right thing and do the difficult thing and that does not mean the political hack indolent club raises taxes because they are too dumb to be creative and do the hard work. ...And it does not mean giving the jobs to China and India having to learn Chinese and Hindi, It means take the control back! Then manage it domestically or get out-sourced! If you don't, YOUR FIRED!!!
The concept is not so far fetched when you think about it. There are many states in the USA that would "bite at the bit" to get a piece of the non-essential action, to compete for California's government jobs out-sourced at a competitive price , similar to the way the Sheriffs personnel are often contractually out-sourced (marginally out-sourced, rented to locals that cannot afford to supply there own police force due to the high rate of per-capita expense for uniforms, squad cars and pension and retirement benefits to name a few, not to mention the loss of revenues impacting the smaller communities more than the larger ones. Then there are those government jobs that are more apt to be carried out as a referral service from one department to the other... you know like India and the common screw, blue screw, golden, screw departments., whereby you get referred from one office of government to another and another until you get sent from the Department of Defense to the Parking Enforcement in the mythical country of OZ.
Gee Whiz! What is good for the goose is good for the vulture, like all of those patrol cars with high tech satellite surveillance equipment, who is getting the sweet contract to sell those used vehicles when they are less than "new", like who gets the ones that are not in the public auctions Does China get the information in the data base. also? Who gets the returned government hard discs with all the private information on the discs, are they going back to China? Do we have a Cabinet Czar of Chinese data bases.
The reader has been this news route many times before, where one tries to call the FBI or the CIA and issues of Homeland Security becomes don’t bother us we get paid to bother you.
OUT-SOURCE 'EM’! If they give you a telephone number and say call them... OUT-SOURCE THEM, West Virginia needs the work, so does Oregon, so does New Mexico, and so does India. If the governor’s office sends you to the Mayor of your city relative to a state issue, OUT-SOURCE the Governors staff... The hourly wage will be lower and the Governor will be able to experience first hand the frustration of the corporate turn the other cheek routine and the “queue!” Accountability is the issue here;
In 1789 we the people did not get out of bed on a sub-zero morning to vote for a government referral service and get the royal screw hang-up. We voted for the stuff wherein a proactive government does not mean we look for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, after we know the weapons have been smuggled back into the USA after we the people sold Iraq the equipment to generate weapons grade bacteria.
Whether it is old news or new news, moral or ethical or legal to require tax be collected, before new tax is approved, where budget is predicated on priority of crime vs. priority of privilege, for the friends of elected government.
We the people, must seek to find if there is a strata of privilege whereby one pays tax and the friends of the elected officials enjoy a tax holiday. A tax never being paid is different than tax being collected by independant agents of the the State then denied the attention to the details that would fill the coffers of the general fund is moot, but what is not moot is that there is a difference between not paying tax and that of collecting tax and keeping it. Passing it across international borders and then out-sourcing the jobs paid for with tax dollars and the loss of revenues to the thieves. Stealing health benefits, peaceable habitable, future potentials for the constituents after the flood gates of the borders have been opened turning the civil order into civil disobedience and then riots in the streets, as never before.
Was this not Nixonian Democracy where the IRS was targeting citizens while profits of war were being spirited in weapons smuggled from one Warring country only to be sold at a later time to the next incursions. The tax payer losing more than taxes, they lost their children. The president sought audits while the making his target list and checking it twice? If you were not for the man, you were agin’ the most power hungry megalomaniac in the history of the United States, setting the stage to dismantle the tax structure of America to take it global under the guise it is good for business. It was, for the friends of government, not the taxpayers of America..
How fast we forget. After all China speaks the language of Republican Global out-sourcing and the World Trade Organization. Globalized, efficient business is re-invented, to encompass reselling of defective merchandise, India trouble shoots issues of defective products befuddled, confused by the numbers ploy of multiple data bases, the issues are passed to Canada, repackages the products, perverting the contractual terms of finance, “if found”, after return, never satisfying the disgruntled customers, as the Canadian contingency ships yet another dysfunctional product. The next dysfunction if not found by the customer within 30 days of receipt, the replacement served to effectively bait and switch an individual into terms of replacement and warranty as opposed to no-questions-asked-return policy whereby a used product becomes legal compensation for the original "new one purchased" but now falls outside the time frame of returning the product no questions asked.
The consumer has been "switched" once again when the new product replacement which is defective, for the old dysfunctional product. The customer gets a new problem insuring continued employment growth, for the Canadians, whose implied competitive motto, “if”, it in”t broke we don’t fix it we break it, then we will replace it with another defective product with a different defect.
A business corrupt scheme like this taking place under the nose of the Governor, while the Governors supporters, Hp, out-sources the bookkeeping, elected a Governor that is” blind” to the practice yet when informed refers the State issue to the Mayor of Los Angeles.
Hp.com attempts to intimidate the the unsuspecting customers while at arms length from their subsidiary, while reaping the benefits of sales tax via the permit that they carry, or was that raping the benefits.
And then there is China… but that is the subject of another encyclopedia.
The Governor then promises to bring business home or was that bring the jobs home or was it to import the alien labor force in the future to the dismay of the unions... hmm.
This theme is echoed by the terms used by the software industry “beta version and Release version of software; to Wit; a Microsoft beta version means, Microsoft has isolated a bug in the software is addressing the resolve of the problem as opposed to Release version, Microsoft has still got a software problem bug, but the customer is going to pay for the hunt for the solution; Ergo, The Technical Support Professional is born, and the consumer tax dollar goes to kingdom-come and thy will be done. The way it was... and can be again; A company must provide for the ability for you to physically pick up an item within the State and to have a “point of presence” in that State in order to derive the right to charge sales tax, “if” they have a California permit to do so as applies in this example. Each state has its’ own way of dealing with the drainage, the Corporate Sucks” issue.
They avoid confronting out-source violators like congress avoids the campaign reform issues, maybe they are one and the same, the resources move across international borders. Hpshopping.com is said to have such presence in Sunnyvale, California, so states an unnamed employee of Hewlett Packard and Hpshopping.com but when attempting to find the company in Sunnyvale ones does not find the company or the permit.
To the contrary, and UPON INVESTIGATION OF THE FACTS; Hpshopping.com does not have a permit to collect sales tax nor do they have a direct line telephone to their alleged headquarters in California, nor are they located in Sunnyvale, California as the “consumer / shopper” is led to believe. In this case HpShopping.com claims that they are represented as headquartered in Sunnyvale California but to date have no telephone number whereby a consumer may resolve issues within the United States or have we the American people out-sourced the issues of local taxation internationally.
When purchasing a computer product via telephone or internet. the customer is routed to Nova Scotia or Ontario Canada, where Hpshopping.com seems to nest their sales force vultures. The tele-service “washing machine” revolves around Hewlett Packard. “Hewlett Packard, ,“as parent corporate” the claims contact for Hpshopping.com out-sourcing their customer grief in a circle-jerk pass the disgruntled to Hewlett Packard Company in California. HP, the parent company, denies any obligation of satisfying issues of Hpshopping customers in the United States, where any involvement they may have to resolve an issue is a result of an act of no legally binding random benevolent courtesy while they assist in resolution of issues which range from taxation without representation (remember that catch phrase) to refurbished or regurgitated defective products being sold as new to confusing the issues so as to shift the blame back across the international border. One begins to wonder about how the Military contracts are handled on a national level; Is Hewlett Packard held to different standards than the consumer??? One would begin to think that one has a better chance of winning the California lottery than getting a computer that does not take 5 months to get one that works.
One needs to ponder the fact that this company sells computers to our military.... It might be equally difficult to find where the Scud missile went if guided by these computers as to find where or to who your original customized ordered computer went. BlogOneDos poses rhetorically, the question, what has happened to the once great reputation of a company started in 1939?
Then there is Compal, Twinwill, Unwell, Matrix, and Clevo, the 5 major hosts of O.D.M Original Design Manufactured computers, they design, assemble and ship the high tech marvels of confusions that have more identifying numbers pasted all over the shipping boxes and hardware and relied on by the tech services, than India has support professionals who know what they mean and Canada and Malaysia have, to misplace and manipulate them. The computers these five companies manufacture permeate almost all international marketing and sales organizations similar in nature to Hewlett Packard. China and Thailand coordinate the parts assembly and then ship to replacement parts and finished computer technology globally to unsuspecting “marks” not having a clue that somewhere in the world someone has waited a month for a computer that was shipped from the manufacturer from Hell. As consumer I ”Opinionate”, having ordered a computer delivered with more than 25 identifying bar code numbers not to mention Microsoft’s activation numbers which are a sequence of 42 numbers which cause your computer to crash if one does not do as they ordered by Microsoft’s, “Epaulets” to do as they order, with the computer that belongs to the customer but falls under the license of a third party software corporate dominance standing behind Hewlett Packard having bought licenses to sell the altered software, tweaked if you will, to facilitate the “idiosyncrasies” of a CTO, configured to order computer. Now I thought the Justice department settled this issue some time back... Who might be looking the other way on this monopoly issue?
Nah can’t be the Republican’s, they never would do that, now, would they?
The “corporate orders are tantamount to “firm-policies” often misinterpreted and misleading, espoused by the epaulets luring the customer into a deeper morass of financial obligation and time suck than is bargained for. The customer is led to believe that if the OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer’s Software (MICROSOFT), if removed from the hardware that the consumer bought and owns, such act will void the extended warranty which explains more fully the Royal Screw Departments and being disconnected from India where the technical departments are partnered with Microsoft and the Converges Corporation. The bottom Line... Compaq-Hewlett Packard and Hpshopping .com in the immortal paraphrase of Ralph Nader, Hewlett Packard Corporate and Compaq are “unsafe at any CPU speed...”
The Computer hardware marketers, and software companies, make a wish and gang-up on the customer coupled with China’s gang of five. They do not manufacture computers that are quality controlled, nor adequately support the problems that arise as a consequence of such loss of corporate organization control nor offer a price that is worth the nightmare of purchasing one, two three or anything they sell, buy, buy back or foist on the unsuspecting public, not limited to refurbished or regurgitated or offer items in good faith with regard to respect for verbal agreements.
stay tuned for the manefest of prejudice....
Chapter II
To be continued: LOOPHOLES, Coupons galore, price drops and return guarantees, discounts and more, corporate waste of shareholders dollars, rebate nightmares and devotees of the virgin of the tight fist, threats of theft and fraud galore, missing computer for 24 hours and more,
