Stuff that does not need to be this difficult...

[susandennis]

I have an app on my phone that I can use to look up what's playing at my favorite theater. I have another app that lets me make a list of movies that I want to see. Now I need an app that takes the movies I want to see and tell me when they will be at my favorite theaters.

Those dots should not be that hard to connect.

I have 10K in a 401K from the company that laid me off. It's at MassMutual. I have an IRA at Ameriprise and I want to roll over the 10K from MassMutual to Ameriprise. It should be a nobrainer and cost me under $50.

However, it turns out to be a giant brainer, apparently.

• My Ameriprise guy tried to suck the money out from his end. Rejected.
• Zero info on the MassMutual site about how to do it.
• Email to MassMutual said for me to contact Arlene at my old company. I know she won't know.
• I finally get a hold of Chris, the local MassMutual guy who set up the 401K. He says Arlene knows.
• I send email to Arlene. She sends my email to Chris telling him to fix it.
• He sends me to 'the admin company'. He does not know who but does deal with Sharon. I call Sharon. She doesn't work on Mondays but her voice mail says hang up and call back for Kathy.
• Kathy not there but her voicemail says I should call Sharon.
• I did a reverse look up on the phone number and found their website and left an email.

Holy fuck.

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And my gmail spam filter thinks I want to learn more languages. Spam trying to get me to learn new languages keeps getting through - not once or twice but 3 times a day for about two weeks now. I keep marking it as spam and it keeps coming. I'm ready for penile implants and Nigeran princes.

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I'm actually feeling less pre-cold today but I took more prednizone this morning so it could be a false positive. If I feel the same tomorrow, I'll try it without prednizone. Fingers crossed.

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Laundry done, two loads. Sheets changed and washed. Kitchen clean. Living room tidy-ish. A good day so far!

Comments

[shutterbug.livejournal.com]

I often wonder what time I would get up if I were retired.

What time do you try and be up?

[susandennis]

Great question... no simple answer.

Keep in mind, I am very much a morning person. I go to bed at 10 and read til 11. I never stay up past 11. Until I retired my alarm went off at 6 am 7 days a week - tuned to the NPR station.

Now I have been testing out some times. It still goes off at 6 on Saturdays because I have an early swim class.

But for other days, it's set for 7. If I'm asleep when the radio goes off, I usually just go back to sleep. More often than not, however, I'm awake when it goes off. I just like new days.

[mixter11nm.livejournal.com]

The people at Mass Mutual will have to cut the check and make it payable to your Ameriprise account. It will need to have the name and number of the qualified plan it is going to be deposited into. It is usually mailed directly to the folks at the qualified plan (Ameriprise in this case) where you will be depositing it. Hope that helps.

[susandennis]

Thanks yep, I actually do get that part. The question is how to get MassMutual to do that.but I think I may have finally cracked the code.

[machupicchu.livejournal.com]

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I think my email to "the admin company" would have begun with, "Do you guys actually talk to each other over there??"
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