Everything is Broken

[wuluf]

Nothing seems to work like its supposed to anymore, if it ever did.
6 years ago this month the lovely Mrs. Wuluf and I left her native California for the friendlier wilds of Nevada. Before we left we bought a new Toyota Rav4 from a California dealership. Last year we made the final payment and awaited receipt of the title. Toyota in error sent the title to California DMV. (They had no trouble sending the payment coupons to us in Nevada, but I digress.) When we figured that out, we contacted CA DMV for a title and submitted the paperwork in August. Crickets. We contacted then again in October and submitted the required documents. Crickets and bullfrogs. Ditto in February. Add cicadas. Monday I emailed the Director of CA DMV asking for help. Today I got an email from "Customer Care" requesting the documents for a the 4th time. I emailed them. Now he wants a "secondary ID" besides the Real ID NV drivers License! (you don't need an ID to vote in CA, but you need two to get title to a vehicle you own, but I digress.) After sending those it will be a mere 40 business days to get the title I requested 8 months ago.
After recent battles with my Medicare Advantage plan, AT&T and T-Mobile it seems Bob Dylan was right. Everything is broken..

 

[wuluf]

Have you been hit up for the special "they left california tax" yet?

I think we left before this..

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[markeb]

R.L. Burnside - Everything Is Broken - YouTube

Here you go.

 

[LVSteve]

At one time there was a standoff between the CA DMV and NV DMV over vehicle and trailer titles. CA went to electronic titles and refused to issue paper to a new owner out of state, a paper title had to be requested by the CA resident selling the car/boat/trailer. Buddy fell foul of this, because the guy in CA had his money and saw no reason to burn his vacation time at the CA DMV to get a paper title for a guy in NV just because the NV DMV didn't accept electronic titles. If NV was in the stone age, it wasn't his problem.

 

[ggibson511960]

Dylan was right on multiple counts. The times they are a changin', and everybody's gotta serve somebody.

 

[luvsmiths]

And....

The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles

 

[llowry61]

Nothing seems to work like its supposed to anymore, if it ever did.
6 years ago this month the lovely Mrs. Wuluf and I left her native California for the friendlier wilds of Nevada. Before we left we bought a new Toyota Rav4 from a California dealership. Last year we made the final payment and awaited receipt of the title. Toyota in error sent the title to California DMV. (They had no trouble sending the payment coupons to us in Nevada, but I digress.) When we figured that out, we contacted CA DMV for a title and submitted the paperwork in August. Crickets. We contacted then again in October and submitted the required documents. Crickets and bullfrogs. Ditto in February. Add cicadas. Monday I emailed the Director of CA DMV asking for help. Today I got an email from "Customer Care" requesting the documents for a the 4th time. I emailed them. Now he wants a "secondary ID" besides the Real ID NV drivers License! (you don't need an ID to vote in CA, but you need two to get title to a vehicle you own, but I digress.) After sending those it will be a mere 40 business days to get the title I requested 8 months ago.
After recent battles with my Medicare Advantage plan, AT&T and T-Mobile it seems Bob Dylan was right. Everything is broken..

I feel your pain, our illustrious city council set us up for aggregation of our city residents to bulk purchase electricity from one company at a reduced rate.

I was vaguely aware of these aggregators and how the initial rate is low then before you know it, they double it and sometimes it triples. I do not believe they are bound to get approval from the utilities commission for rate increases since the cost is based it on market supply / demand, however they are known to purchase electricity only from "green" providers. It is a backdoor way to cram green energy policy down our throats. If we aren't careful this approach will capture enough of the market that we won't have options, but I digress.

I got the notice and I had to opt out by calling them before 4/12. I got the notice on 4/2, so I called, and they told me that my account wasn't active yet, so I had to call back in 3 business days. Needless to say, it was a huge hassle for something I didn't want and didn't ask for. I had to jump through several hoops listen to multiple retention scripts and basically justify why I didn't want to participate. I finally got to the point where I wasn't nice about it and got it done.

It feels like the approach today is do whatever is best for whomever the decision maker is then create a high friction labor intensive painful process to opt out of their lunacy.

It is runaway bureaucracy, and I am sick of it as well.

 

[woodsltc]

Have you been hit up for the special "they left california tax" yet?

I think we left before this..

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Maybe the DMV holds a grudge for you leaving the PRK.

Don

 

[pasound]

I feel your pain. I hate dealing with financials and such across state lines, and especially across corporate lines.
In 2022 I paid off a car loan, early, on a car I was forced to buy in early 2020 because a a neighbor with a cell phone in her face crashed into my parked car and totalled it. I was inside my home, getting ready for work. I doubled up payments and two months before I made my last payment, the local bank I'd used for over two decades was bought up by a regional conglomerate.
I paid the last payment in March, and requested my title so I could get new plates. And waited. I called, emailed, and visited the new office staff (everyone I knew at the local bank was gone) at least weekly for the next three and a half months, demanding my paperwork and title. Finally, in August 2022 I learned all the local paperwork and titles had been shipped to a warehouse in North Carolina, and they couldn't find it. Instead I got a letter from a bank V.P. saying my loan was paid in full, and it had the correct title number on it, but no title.
I bought a new title at the local DMV, and license plates, and immediately went to the "new better bigger" bank and demanded cashiers checks for my accounts - closing my 401K, savings, and checking. They stalled, complaining that "I was a good customer for years and why did I want to leave?" Finally in frustration I stood up in the manager's office and said loudly "I'm leaving because you people are just a big corporation and a bunch of A------s, and I want my money now!" I stopped all conversation in the bank lobby.
As a final insult, they wouldn't reimburse me for the cost of a new title. I yelled at them again and they didn't charge me for the cashier's checks.
I went to a local bank that I should have been with for years, and they were happy to set up new accounts, giving me money market rates on my savings, interest on my checking, free checks, free debit and credit cards.

 

[Warren Sear]

There is this by Kenny Wayne Shepherd

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JVkHbJE4_o[/ame]

 

[jeffrefrig]

"Bob Dylan was right. Everything is broken.."
Or, after all that, Bob was also right: "Everybody must get st...."

 

[Ingramite]

As I watch "things" around me erode and deteriorate I'm caught in the crossfire because of my ever shortening tolerance level for B.S. What I used to wash down with another beer now becomes lodged firmly crossways in my throat.

Today I totally understand why my grandmother used to say "Bless their hearts".

 

[Golddollar]

I could tell my share of stories about less than favorable encounters with financial institutions, both in my personal life and professional life. I guess the ultimate question is "How did things get this way?"

 

[ameridaddy]

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It feels like the approach today is ...then create a high friction labor intensive painful process to opt out of their lunacy.

It is runaway bureaucracy, and I am sick of it as well.

Sounds like the hoops and barricades anti-gun states put up for lawful ownership of a firearm. "We can outwait, outspend and out lawyer you if you complain."

 

[Old 44 Guy]

Wuluf. What you don't understand is that Calif. is broke. Our govt. is broken also. Your title is in the mix somewhere and nobody knows where or too lazy to look. Just my 2 bits.

 

[wuluf]

Update

It only took 8 months but my title finally arrived..

 

[326MOD10]

Well that was quicker than the 60 years it took you to realize Bob Dylan was correct.