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At the begining of the year, Brian's hours were cut at Eagle...this was just before they tried to lower his pay to drive him out-I suppose it worked because he quit and the following day found a job working for Schick, an industrial construction company as a surveyer out at SteelCorp. This cut in hours, however, is still effecting us. We have been scrambliling to get back on top of our bills and now if it isn't one thing its another. I recently got the truck refied, and a loan we have...so that's all taken care of. The cable was shut off for a while and I figured it could wait until we had the money for it which was yesterday or so I thought. Last night I noticed our phones were turned off which really pisses me off because I paid 100 tward that on Wendsday, and come to find out we owe an additional 100 on back bills and for some reason this month's bill is 300 and someodd dollars! That is just ridiculas! I'm over this phone company. I never had any real issues with Cingular but since AT&T took over they are charging us for things that Cingular never charged us for and we have to pay per sent and recieved text where as before we didn't...it is really upsetting because I can't just cancel because we have a contract. I think once that expires I will be searching for a new phone company. May even go with one home phone and one cell phone or something, I just can't stand this any more. I'm constantly feeling overwhelmed. If it's not the phone bill it's the electric company, which reminds me i need to do some research on that...they cut the electricity the other day for $33 dollars! What was that crap about? We paid the bill but didn't know about that $33 extra, because they rarely send us out a bill and we normally just get a late notice..which pisses me off and they should refund all those 'late' charges we inccur because of their idiocicy. Then the day after I recieve the late notice "Bubba" comes out threatening me. I'm pretty sure a few years ago I learned on 20/20 that when the temps get above 90 or below 32 they can not turn off your power unless you are a certian amount past due...this could be just certian areas but I will be doing some research on it so I can slap it in these people's faces and let them know they aren't dealin with one of them. I'm not some ignoran woman who just accepts things as they are. I've spoken with other people about the electric company for this county and we aren't the only people having problems with them, although we are the only ones getting monthly visits from "Bubba". Which means he is harassing me for some reason. I suppose he thinks because he is 10 of me I feel threatened by him, but sorry dude large in size and small in brain ain't going to scare this little woman!