bye bye, Iphone 3g!

Today I am officially trading my loving Iphone for a blackberry. yes. a blackberry. since hubby bought it for me last AUg. 28th I can't help but notice some negative stuff about it just these past weeks. my SIL was right after all!



Strange behavior (lol) I've noticed so far:

1. It freezes all the time, so you have to reboot it again... and again...
2. I can't hear my voicemail sometimes. it appears black then later on you check it again then the voice messages appear.
3. NO SERVICE. you will get 1, 2 or 5 bars then when you make start to make a call it will suddenly say: NO SERVICE on the top left. sucks.
4. someone is calling but you can't even answer it because the phone is blank! =/

5. One time I thought I had fully charged my phone while at work all of a sudden it tells me that battery is almost 20% so I need to charge it or dismiss. for crying out loud I saw the battery still full! I didn't had my charger with me and I had to spend the whole day at work without my phone being charged.
6. I am having a great time surfing the net then all of a sudden it sends me back to my home screen.
7. It takes a loooong time to load a page, I thought it was faster? it was fast in the first week but after that it sucks now.

so far those are the things I've encountered so far. are there more? I hope you can find something similar here on what you've went through with your iphone 3g. feel free to share!

you be the judge!

Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? ...

(09-18_2008) Last night was really something else. There was an incident that happened between 7 to 7:30 pm, one of the leads called me and said that she had caught a thief! and it was one of the baggers, but she would like to know first if the girl was telling the truth before accusing her of theft. I went in to see who it was, and the lead quickly told me to spot check her items because she asked her for a receipt but she said she didn't had any because the cashier didn't give her one, she was in a hurry bagging the stuff (take note: she bagged her own groceries) and according to the lead after seeing her bagging the stuff she quickly went out the door but the lead caught her and asked her for a receipt because no customers or employees in our store can get out without showing us the receipts of their items.

the items in the bag were:

2 chilled soymilk 1/2 gallon size cartons 2 small sealed bags of chicken wings (cooked) one was $2.10 and the other was $6+ 1 tako poke 1 tray of fresh sliced salmon ($7+)

so I called the cashier, a boy 18 yrs of age who rang up the items of the alleged thief. I ran to his register, asked him to shut down and tell me if he DID give a receipt back to the girl bagger, he did gave it to her and the customer in front of him (a samoan lady) also joined in the conversation telling me that she saw the cashier gave the girl her receipt.

I went back to the cash cage and searched for the items and I couldn't believe my eyes... only 3 items were rang up! I was like, uh-oh... I didn't know who to suspect, the cashier or the bagger? or both maybe? the boy has been working for our store over a year or so already and never did he had an incident like that, he was a kind person eventhough his image may look like a baddie with studs in his face, piercings all around and tatoos but never did I suspect him to ever make a mistake like that. I wasn't sure if he was ever in cahoots with that girl bagger, they weren't really that close either. I really didn't know what to say since I didn't see it myself.

We asked the lead to tell the story one more time, the duty manager even came to witness what was happening. according to her, that wasn't the first time she saw it, She let go of it the first time because she said she didn't had any guts and wasn't sure if her hunch was correct. but the 2nd time she didn't let it go because now she proved that she was right! she was reshopping at the time, she went to collect some stuff at the cashier's register, the girl bagger stopped her and said "that's mine, I'm gonna buy that!" so she said ok, the girl bagger was bagging at the time for another customer. what the boy didn't know (just a hucnh) that the girl bagger probably put 1 carton of soymilk, 1 bag of chicken wings (the cheapest one) and the lil tub of tako poke that costs only $7.00 according to the transaction list in our system. she had put the items under the metal stand where the conveyor belt is. We didn't know if the cashier was aware of that. she kept on blabbing away that she was innocent, I knew she was being defensive. her stuff was more than 20 bucks, ok if her balance was $7.00 wouldn't you know right away when paying that there was something wrong with your bill?? that is so messed up, accusing the cashier of not ringing up all the items, how could he if there were only 3 items on the belt? I say she was lying.

I kept on looking at their eyes hoping I would know who the liar is. The general manager of the store was disappointed with them, he asked me to call the MP's. so the police arrived minutes later and discussed it outside customer service while the girl bagger and cashier was being detained inside the office.

I know it was also the cashiers fault because he was supposed to tell off the bagger not to get anything from his side, hello..security purposes! they are not allowed to go beyond the cashier's point, all they gotta do is bag, that's it! and the bagger was claiming she gave $20 worth of ones to the cashier, ok if she did not get the receipt if the cashier hadn't given it to her in the first place, you would be eager to know how much you've spent, right? tell me I'm wrong. that's really baloney! and at least try to get a receipt back because we can always reprint! everything she tells us doesn't really makes any sense at all. one of my workmates in the cash cage told me that girl bagger was also caught the last time but they let her go because they didn't have enough proof, I guess. She once again pleaded innocent of the charges against her and kept on telling the cashier that he didn't give her a receipt. I guess the boy was speechless, he wasn't being defensive or anything, all he said to her that he gave her a receipt and that's it. it was just the opposite. first of all, I wouldn't think he would do any stupid stuff like that to jeopardize his work. he has a federal job, he makes good money at our store better than any job outside who pays for $7.25 an hour, he wouldn't do anything like that.

after another 30 minutes talking to the Police, the manager made a decision to the Police to arrest them. later on, we heard from the lead that she finally told the Police that some of the items were bought earlier but she didn't have the receipt for it! OMG, this is incredible. she made another alibi to cover her butt. I mean, hello when you have a story to tell, you must stick to one story only, do not add anything to it to make it worse, coz the cops will definitely see that you are lying big time.

And how sad, the girl bagger is a military dependent, her hubby's active duty, although she has marriage issues soon going into a divorce but living in with a fellow bagger who at the same time still married and has kids of his own. tsk tsk, how sad. I just had to write this down just in case I need it the next time, It's good to take down notes, you know it'll be handy in the future. so let me know what you think, you be the judge!