/biz/ - Business & Finance

I'm a sorcerer who spends a significant chunk of my time fighting dark wizards and waffling between good and evil. I am pretty fucking far from normal.

What is a just economy? Should the rich eat the poor? Should the clever devour the dull? Should the wise exploit the foolish? Should the strong oppress the weak?

Let me put it like this. I placed an order a week ago. It should have arrived this week, probably before Wednesday. There are three major possibilities of what happened to it. If it was "misplaced" then the ensuing paperwork snarl is going to hang the guilty party and they've probably realized that they have made a horrible error in judgement by now and are trying to figure out how to cover it up. It may have arrived but was appropriated by someone else on arrival, and it's going to be a very ugly confrontation before I confirm that. The third major possibility is that there's something wrong on the vendor's end and they just suck at communicating that to me even though they've already confirmed that the order is being processed. I have no way of confirming this until I hassle the vendor, hassle the people who may have appropriated it and who may well deny it, or after exhausting those I start following the order's paper trail until I find the idiot who thought that they were in the clear to pull the order before it processed and probably only realized when they were going back to fill out the paperwork that they should have completed beforehand that they made a very grave error that might actually land them in legal trouble all by itself.

I don't necessarily hate what I do. I hate the fact that I'm surrounded by people who turn what I do into a giant headache because they can't resist the urge to indulge in shenanigans even to their own detriment.