$40k is $1400 a year in lost interest in a savings account. Crazy.

Wish I could easily get my USD over to Australia, where you can get 8.5%. [www.bankwest.com.au]

This company spends a lot of money on advertising and is interested in stopping the suspected click fraud. We know how to stop the average person from running our bill up. What we don't know is if you are smarter or dumber then the average person. $300 goes to you if we can not detect your strategy.

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When I first moved here, I was appalled by the holiday situation. 12 days a year including sick leave.

Then I found out that's just on paper. In practice it's far more generous. Also, at Google the standard is 3 weeks. Plus they get longer paternity/maternity leave amongst other perks.

Then there are the benefits outside of holidays. Honestly, even at a startup you get treated far far better as an employee than at an Australian company. How hard it is to provide workers with free soft drink and snacks? Yet I don't know of any Aussie companies personally - it's certainly not the norm like it is in the Valley. The culture at work also values the employee a lot more than in Australia, meaning you feel happier in general. Giving them stick over their holidays is just a cheap cop-out.

In a month this will be completely forgotten and everyone will continue paying close to $5/gallon for gas, and some investors somewhere will have lost their life savings.

What is with the lack of critical thinking going on here? Didn't anyone take physics in high school?

Actually, the belt-tightening I've seen is pretty amazing. I wouldn't be surprised to see it only gets worse.

Also how on earth could it take 51 hours to do all that? Seems absolutely ridiculous. As per inspiron's comments, I also have done a lot of personal repair work on my own cars, and it does *not* take that long to completely take something apart and replace parts. Crazy.

What a crappy letter. Totally over the top, and lacks any sort of decent description of what actually happened, the guy was too busy trying to fill it with simile and metaphor. Failed English major?

Okay, I'm done trashing the consumer. At least it wasn't over the actual event.

There is no official policy, but in both cases it was when the repairs did not fix the ORIGINAL issue. I suspect if all faults were separate you are less likely to get a replacement.