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- travbrack, on 10/11/2007, -1/+231You made me put on my laughing pants for nothing.
- shibbz, on 10/11/2007, -7/+80Where the ***** do I get laughing pants,
- Axon77, on 10/11/2007, -1/+53You should definitely charge them a $25 Returned Check Fee.
- canewediggit, on 10/11/2007, -1/+45i'm not wearing any pants, can i still read it?
- thrallie, on 10/11/2007, -14/+58It's kind of pathetic to complain about some stupid check issue on a "blog" and then submit it to digg claiming it's funny. Matt Cutts goes and comments on your blog entry, and then you bash him for being a dog? What the ***** is wrong with you. You are receiving money from one of the largest goddamn companies in the world and you call the man feeding you a dog. Nice....nicee...
- VaporBro, on 10/26/2007, -1/+44Your server wrote me a bad check
- speedk0re, on 10/11/2007, -9/+51ZOMG GOOGLEZ IS BROKE EVERYONE SELL!!
is that the reaction you were looking for?
buried for stupid blog spam - michaelfrankie, on 10/11/2007, -1/+36I've got parachute pants, fancy pants, and smarty pants but I have no laughing pants.
- Lister169, on 10/11/2007, -1/+33Even my laughing pants didn't laugh at that blog.
- heyitsgarrett, on 10/11/2007, -2/+30Aw man. I was just taking my laughing pants off in disappointment, and then I read your post. Now I have laughter everywhere :(
- D4r7h3v1l, on 10/11/2007, -2/+25It wasn't that funny, but now I'm curious about these laughing pants...
- rejoined, on 10/11/2007, -3/+21http://www.laughingpants.com/
- Niddik, on 10/11/2007, -2/+19I'm guessing that Google keeps their funds in several separate accounts, but forgot to distribute the funds equally to all of them.
- macabaret, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17You wouldn't believe how many zeros that check had on the end of it.
- idonthack, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17It does now
- gmprunner, on 10/11/2007, -4/+17What about squarepants?
- WilliamDavis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13Are you sure? I totally thought this meant Google went bankrupt!!!! I almost leaped from a window. I'll wait a bit now.
- speedk0re, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11depends on where you live bud.... stateside it's a check
- Tunguska, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10Attention Google:
Cheque yo'self before you wreck yo'self. - Mattja, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11My laughing pants shrunk because this was SO DAMN HILARIOUS
And now I'm left clutching my balls and hopping in agony.
Thanks very much. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10I can believe Google has grown too big to have everything under control. Hope they don't become another Microsoft. Their HR department seems to be slow as an elephant's bowel movement. I do contracting. They had an urgent need related to managing accounts, possibly AdSense, 6 weeks ago for someone with my skill set. Well, after they got my resume, no response and they tell me their key HR lady is out until July 16. The elephant can't move fast perhaps. Perhaps they're suffering from Too-Big Disease and this check thing is an example of that.
- nlschd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7"Matt Cutts goes and comments on your blog entry, and then you bash him for being a dog? "
You do realize that that was a vistor (Carol Anne) and not the blogger himself?
Here is what the this blogger said in reply to the comment:
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Carol Anne,
Matt is Matt. I know, because 1)Brian the Adsense operations management guy told me that Matt contacted him, 2)I left a comment on Matt’s blog which is why he came back here. Please don’t bash the one guy who is helping when he didn’t have to. Thank you, Matt." - BrettTheUser, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7That is kinda funny.
They probably put enough money in their account to cover all the adsense checks for each billing cycle, but since this check was cut especially for the poster at a time they don't usually cut checks, there probably wasn't any money in the account, and no one thought to check. - SavageBlackCat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Technically he didn't receive money - the check bounced, remember.
- Drull, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6of what, the bank?
- j1a1g1, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8A picture of it would be nice
- mentor972, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6It's the start of the DOT COM CRASH 2.0 !!!!!
- d722002, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7http://www.duggmirror.com
- bashfulczar, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4I left my laughing pants at the dry cleaners.
- bonlebon, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Unless you are in Canada, eh!.
- zoom1928, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3After fighting them for over 9 months to get our first AdSense check, I'll believe they'll do anything dishonest to not pay money they owe. Maybe the guys at the top are honest, but none of the people I've dealt with there are honest. They won't even give you their last name so you can complain about their actions. They know as long as there is no accountability they can get away with most anything.
- kodek, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4$0.5000000000000?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Will laughing shorts do? They're denim and very short.
- hramos, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Usually checks used at retail locations, or dropped through the deposit box, are processed by a data entry group early the next morning so that the balances may be updated by the late afternoon batch run. However you may process a check at any which time you decide, and it seems this bank's policy was to process walk-in client's checks on the spot, since it doesn't really take that long for a single check. It should only take as long as it takes to enter the data, their check system should quickly respond with either a valid code or a NSF code. May be the teller took time to make sure the check was actually NSF since you don't want to rapidly tell your clients that the check bounced.
- geoffpado, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2He DID say it took a while.
- Laughto, on 10/11/2007, -6/+8You are confused.
- digboy99, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Perhaps you are not the droid they are looking for?
- Rekzai, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3You need at least $100 to cash out.
- catnap4321, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2From https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/static.py?page=troubleshooter.cs&problem=form_of_payment&selected=where_cash_check
Because policies vary between banks, we're not able to determine if a specific bank is able to accept your AdSense checks. All payment checks are issued by Citibank. If you receive checks in US Dollars, please inquire at your bank regarding whether they have a correspondent relationship with Citibank. This relationship is required in order to process our US Dollar checks. Please note that Google AdSense checks are for deposit only, and are not able to be cashed. - zoom1928, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Like $200? Their written policy is a $100 minimum within 30 days of the end of the previous month. Typically they'll try not to pay money they owe for much longer than that, but that is their policy. Even if you pay extra to get them to use DHL(the only non-USPS option they provide) to send the check they'll still hold it sometimes for weeks.
- analogtyler, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The check is almost definetely written from a ZBA (zero balance account) as are most payroll checks from large corporations. These are generally accounts that are linked to larger funded accounts but according to the banking system have no actual balance. They are used to help companies organize their accounting.
The teller is likely new or not very knowledgeable if he/she didn't cash/deposit it. Its really funny how people assume google is "broke" like they wouldn't be able to cover adsense payouts. - ronaldb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Oh hai! I'm in ur surver writing bad cheks. K by!
- mobilejones, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Sadly for me, it's not fake xbmodder. I wish it were. But I'll tell you it has been annoying.
- azntiger1000, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Actually I would prefer Google to give me a bad check because this way I have a reason to get more money from them.
- BigTrey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This is idiotic for the fact that when the teller told her there were insufficient funds, it was in her OWN bank account NOT google's. She wanted to cash the check not deposit it. It's standard practice in banking to not cash a check if you yourself can't cover it. Buried for idiocy
- david5t, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Google AdSense EFT could have prevented this somewhat.
- Darwinian, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2actually this story is a cheap dupe of something that was dugg about 6 months ago, the other article was much better written.
- LonesomeFighter, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3"How does a gazillionaire company like Google have a bank account with so little money in it?"
Here's the #1 problem i found, Google is ONLY a billion dollar company. I'm not sure how much gazillionaire is, but i think it's more than a billion. - doubledoh, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2PS. Thanks for looking that up for me. I was about to do the same myself.
- Shadowhawk109, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Crazy pants, all the time, get some? Everybody, everybody, the longest pants? Long, long, long, long, long, long pants?
/homestarrunner
*murmurs something nonsensical about "lightglobes"... -
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