Daily Thoughts

Today I was notified that Google had reinstated my adsense account. When I went to check my account, I found that they had, in fact, stopped payment on the check.

I don’t intend to line their pockets with anymore adsense activity until I receive full payment from them. This is the letter I wrote to them today:

I really must insist that you reissue the check you stopped payment on. If I was vindicated through your own investigation, then there was no reason to deny me legitimately earned payments. Having this check bounce caused me to have to pay an $8 overdraft fee, which I must also insist that you repay to me. I know you will say that I should have read your terms of use, but I’m not in agreement with not paying someone who has worked faithfully for you for 14 months, with no problems, and then because of someone else’s actions, has lost every penny she worked for before.

Like I said in a previous correspondence, I will pursue this as a labor issue. I have no problem spending my time on this. It’s a matter of principal, and when I consider the thousands of people you have done this to, and the millions of legitimately earned dollars you have denied adsense publishers by these methods that are questionable if not illegal, I will, as I said earlier, pursue this to the ends of the earth.

I will expect to see a check for the full amount owed me, including the $8 overdraft fee, within the next few days.

Sincerely,
Deborah Aldridge

So we shall now see what Google will do. I wanted to be vindicated, but I don’t know if I will ever feature adsense on my blogs again. This whole incident has left a nasty taste in my mouth where Google is concerned. I’ve already started looking for other places to house my blogs, and will probably be closing all but one of my Gmail accounts as well.

In a country where corporate greed runs rampant, Google was one of the good guys, but evidently, that has changed. You know the old saying, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Like the Who sang so many years ago, “Won’t get fooled again!”

Awesome video, obviously made before the election, but still awesome.

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