SurroundedByGrass.

Well here I am, one year since I started dairy farming and I’m not regretting it! In saying that, this is a new farm, more cows but more workers! Bonus? I’ve been told the guys help the girls out, but I’m not sure how I feel about this!

I was out the other night at Dairy1¹ single quarters, and one of the girls was saying how the manager of Dairy2², told her that when she catches a calf, she must put her hands up for one of the guys to come and help, because it’d hurt her back and she’s a “girl”. This pissed her off, and it would piss me off too.

While there are some big arse calves out there, I think both her and I are capable of lifting these calves and putting them on the trailer. Given, I haven’t been put on “calving” yet this season, but it’s coming! I really hope that D2 manager doesn’t say this to me, I will ignore him and pick the calves up anyway, but it really pisses me off when men are so.. sexist. Lately that’s been coming out around the farm, I’m hoping it’s a joke.. but there’s been a lot of “get in the kitchen” jokes. Blah. Last season I picked up a lot calves & one day I picked up all of them!³. Anyhow, I’m hoping I’ll be left to it until I ask for help. Until the time comes I guess, I shouldn’t be getting rarked up about something that hasn’t happened yet.

Rant;

On another note, I called the bank the other day to ask for like $50 because some bill went out and I had to get my car fixed / serviced. They said “Your account has been flagged, we’ve been trying to get in contact with you <blah blah blah”.

Ah, No one has mailed / emailed or called. I changed my address a few weeks ago, as well as my land line & my cell phone has been the same number for the past 8~ years. So I asked them to read me back the address they had. WRONG ONE. “Dude, the guy asked me to spell Rakaia 7 times last time I called to change my address, why hasn’t it been changed?”

Turns out the Post Office doesn’t like my address, and that’s how Westpac go about changing address, on the NZ POST website. Because that is professional.

Anyhow, I asked the guy to change it, and called the number I had to call about my “Over drawn accounts” the next day, you know what? He changed my address, but not the correct one. See, the thing is, I have no number in font of my address, I told him that mulitpul times, and yet he put one in front of it. which made NZ POST change the actual full address. Yet again, fail.So I’ve apparently been getting mail to call them urgently,⁴ but all sent to the wrong address.

You know what else pissed me off? The customer service. The first guy I called at night said the people I had to call the next day where open from 8am-6pm. So I said “Um, exuse me, but I’m a dairy farmer, I don’t have time to be calling banks during work hours / lunch hours”. His responce? “Oh, well you know what? I’m working till 11pm tonight”. FUCK YOU PRICK, TRY WORKING 2 MONTHS STRAIGHT YOU BASTARD. Getting smart with me. I’ve noticed Westpac doesn’t have great customer service skills.

And how very inconvenient. I would rather call people about this so called “Debt”⁵ at night, after work, so I don’t get pissed off at work, then do it at lunch or my days off. Because of their freaking attitude towards me, mixed with my easy-ness to get pissed off and ruin my whole day. Bastards.

Talk about lack of communication. No phone call? You think they would CALL before they sent out mail. To the wrong address. I mean, the guy didn’t even write a note for the IT department or something to fix my address. And then second guy went against what I said five times⁶ and put a number in anyway. Which changed the whole address. Westpac, sort your shit out.

1. D1 [↩]
2. D2 [↩]
3. Although that was 9, this year it’ll be around 200 a day! ARGH! [↩]
4. Even though they had my number, land line AND mobile [↩]
5. Which turned out to be their fault anyway [↩]
6. NO NUMBER IN FRONT OF MY ADDRESS [↩]