Al

Very cool, the GTD thing treats the inbox strictly as “incoming hub” so theoretically nothing should be there after you’ve looked at it. The idea is, you get the message, and if its something you can do in less than 2 min, do it. Otherwise process it based on context and action (eg, “at the office” “do this next”) type of thing.

So in my case, an empty inbox doesn’t mean I’m done. It means I’m done sorting out the stuff I have to do for the day/week/month, and where I need to do it, office, home, shop, errands. After my inbox is clean, I move to “next action” for the context I need to work on next. I’ll explain this in an upcoming post.

Whichever method you use (work of inbox, or work of contexts & actions) keeping an inbox clean will help you keep your sanity, especially when you get 300+ messages a day.

Thanks a lot for coming by and taking a minute to comment. I know what a pain these machines can be, I’ve had my own share of wtf moments when using them. Fortunately for me, the one ATM I really like to use is now working. It was down for so long, but they finally decided to fix it. It’s a drive thru machine, and when it works its great. I don’t really worry if the drivers behind me get upset if I take too long, so long as it isn’t my fault. They can always wait or go tot he regular ATM.

On behalf of all the visitors that have complained, I placed a call to BofA before my trip to Catalina, and mentioned what is going on with the machines. The girl (as has happened in the past) just kinda laughed it off and said “I have no idea who you would talk to about this” she put me on hold and asked somebody else. When she came back on the line she said I could go into one of the branches with the problem and talk to the manager there. WTF! I did that, and none of the managers cared much about the problem anyway, the general response was “we just get the machines from hq.”

Sounds to me like they don’t know what is going on… the sad part is that they don’t seem to care much about it anyway. Stay tuned.

Well good luck with all our future transactions with the machines..Luv ya !!

They such as well for all the reasons listed above.

What used to take 1 to 2 minutes to deposit our business’s checks for the day now take multiple attempts and closer to 10 minutes at the ATM.

As an added bonus, it often repeated rejects checks and mis-calculates the totals (i.e. scans one or more the check incorrectly.)

What great progress.

My way to get back at them is to open a customer service complaint for each mis-scanned batch. I’m sure eventually they’ll get the message that the time it takes for five or six people to handle the complaint and fix the error is more cost than the ’savings’ of not having to have somebody open the envelops in the first place.

Either these machines need to get way more accurate and way, way faster at the scanning process or they need to be removed.