Cancelling AOL accounts, Bad Boss Stories (WorkingAmerica.org) and MySpace.com restrictions
Rover played the phone call this morning of Vincent Ferrari. Vincent tried to cancel his AOL internet account and was hassled relentlessly by the customer service representative. The rep actually had the nerve to ask to speak to Vincent’s father, who also uses the account, even though the account was in Vincent’s name and his credit card was on the account as well. He was finally able to get it cancelled and it was a rather quick call compared to some of the other listeners experiences, many of which said it took them 30-45 minutes to cancel.
WorkingAmerica.org is having a “My Bad Boss” contest. Workers can submit their stories and the person with the best story will win a weeklong vacation. Dieter told a story of a boss he had when he was 16. The guy told him that he had to have a drug test but instead of a urine sample, he needed a semen sample. Dieter, being Dieter, thought it made sense and gave him the sample. It turns out that the guy was some kind of drug addict and he and his girlfriend used all the semen for some kind of kinky body painting.
Rover then told a story about working for the state of Nevada, which was his first real job that he talks about often. He said there was a nurse there that had bunyons on her feet and huge boobs. She would try to make the young men that worked there rub her feet for her. Rover said that she was disgusted and she once tried to get him to rub her feet. He turned her down.
Duji had a story of a lesbian co-worker. She propositioned Duji for a date and Duji turned her down. Duji said after turning her down, the co-worker began to make her life a living hell. She would complain about stuff like Duji and her friend listening to the radio and generally harass her.
The popular social networking site MySpace.com has begun to implement restrictions to keep people over the age of 18 from contacting younger individuals. This change stems from a $30 million lawsuit that a 14 year old girl and her mother has issued against the site after the 14 year old met up with and was sexually assaulted by a 19 year old boy. Although this change may be a step in the right direction considering the huge amount of negative press myspace has received lately, as Rover said, it is still up to the parents to protect their children. MySpace has no way of determining your real age, so 14 year old girls could just say they are 18 or the 18 year old boy could do the reverse.

