On the lighter side: €11,721,000,000,000,000 phone bill

from JoeUser Forums

 

That’s more than the world’s GDP.

And you thought yours was bad. This lady only wanted to close out her account. I figure if it were true, she’d be the reason for the next world recession.

Neowin published the article…

http://www.neowin.net/news/customer-receives-11721000000000000-phone-bill

A printing error indeed. That works out to $54.3 trillion dollars (U.S.).

I wonder what her husband said…

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Oh, it's OK.

She doesn't have to pay it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

....which is ever so nice of them.  I expect she might have had to work late a few nights a week to cover it.....;p

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top


WHAT?!? No counterclaim?? XD

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Teenagers and their all night texting. :P

Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top

Reminds me of the time on Red Dwarf where he found out he had left a light on in the bathroom for 3 million years...  and the Electricity Board was coming to collect.

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

GOOD GWAVY TWAIN! Is she on a time payment plan? Might take a few million years to pay it off. :w00t:

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I wonder what her husband said…
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With that much phone usage, he probably couldn't get a word in edgewise.

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Wizard1956, reply 7

I wonder what her husband said…

With that much phone usage, he probably couldn't get a word in edgewise.
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He'd only have to wait 'til she was too weak from malnourishment....

.... well, she's not going to get any eating done with all that yakking going on, is she! :-"

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

I hope she has means to pay it or she better purchase some printing equipment .... :grin:  

That bill alone will solve Euro zone problems  }:)

Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top

I wonder what her husband said…
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He is probably resigned to it. ;-)

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Sounds like my gas and electric bills...

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Fuzzy, reply 11
Sounds like my gas and electric bills...
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Don't speak to me about gas and electric bills.  We are using less and less each quarter, yet the bills keep going up and up.  And what really shits me is that the CEO of my electricity provider just took a 1.5 million dollar pay increase, taking his annual salary, with share options and bonuses to $8.7 million... and he is only one of dozens at the company who took a huge pay increase this year.  This is not the reason we are being told electricity prices are rising, however. 

The reason we are being told electricity prices are going up is to put up new infrastructure to cope with increasing demand, yet all I'm seeing going up lately is bills and executive pay levels, and at alarming rates at that.  And what's this bullshit about increasing demand?  Everybody I know is using much less electricity than in the previous quarters, and in some cases by rather substantial amounts, so WhereTF is this increasing demand coming from, as usage shrinks and bills keep rising considerably?

>:( >:( >:( >:( >:(

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ours are going up again. After 18%+ rises earlier in the year, its now another 8%.

Why doesn't the price come down when the wholesale price drops?

What happens to the billions of profit they make?

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Fuzzy, reply 13
Ours are going up again. After 18%+ rises earlier in the year, its now another 8%.

Why doesn't the price come down when the wholesale price drops?

What happens to the billions of profit they make?
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Into their pockets and stockholders pockets... unless it's "nationalized". Then it's into the government's pocket (read politician's and their retirement funds).

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

that's what happens when you download the whole internet on roaming... 

Reply #16 from Sins Forums Top


 
A printing error indeed. That works out to $54.3 trillion dollars (U.S.).
I wonder what her husband said…

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You misread some of that, the 54 trillion was mentioned as a reference to the total GDP of the world, the amount owed worked out to much, much more than that.

Reply #17 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting starkers, reply 13
And what really shits me is that the CEO of my electricity provider just took a 1.5 million dollar pay increase, taking his annual salary, with share options and bonuses to $8.7 million... and he is only one of dozens at the company who took a huge pay increase this year.
End of starkers's quote

Mind you, this is in Australia. Sounds like a number of CEO's/SOB's here in the US... 

Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting starkers, reply 12
And what really shits me is that the CEO of my electricity provider just took a 1.5 million dollar pay increase, taking his annual salary, with share options and bonuses to $8.7 million...
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And the number one opponent to the Carbon Tax took.....how much was it last year? .....oh, that's right....something around 36 BILLION....

Just to put that into perspective.....40 hour week..... 50 weeks a year....THREE POINT SIX MILLION DOLLARS per HOUR.

....if you're still lost....that's a $1000 per second.