Did fortune-tellers predict she’d lose her job?
October 14, 2008 by Fred HosierPosted in: In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, That's how they do it in ______
A member of the Norwegian parliament has quit over calling fortune-tellers from her government phone.
Sarah Khaen spent several hundred thousand Norwegian kroner on the calls in recent years, the newspaper Verdens Gang reported.
In a three-month period, her phone bill came to 48,000 kroner — about $8,100 U.S. dollars. At that rate, her annual phone bill would be more than $32,000.
The newspaper reported her calls became so frequent that many fortune-tellers told her to stop calling.
Now, Khaen says she won’t seek re-election.
She denied the story for a long time, but now the politician has released a statement admitting that “a large part” of her expenses have been spent on “conversations with psychics.”
Kahen says she regrets her actions and will repay the government.
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Tags: phone bill, psychics, quit
October 15th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Poor Kahen. You would have figured she saw it coming…………………..
When I was recruiting for a temporary staffing company, the only issue we ran into was when our temp employees would order from gift catalogs of the places they worked. Temp job ends, product comes in, but the company and/or employee is stuck with the product.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:56 am
One time we received a phone bill that had over $900 extra in charges. When we checked the phone bill out, we found there had been numerous calls made to 900 numbers. We immediately had the phone line blocked so calls to 900 numbers could not be made. The phone company was nice enough to not make us pay for those calls.
October 20th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
While in the military I worked as a “Supply Chief” at a recruiting station. One of my responsibilities was paying the phone bill for each of our facilities. My facility also housed the administrative section of the unit. One month the phone bill for our Admin Chief caught my eye. It was well over $1,000 (normally it was less than $100). Further investigation found that he had been making calls to one of those sex lines while at work. We couldn’t prove it was him because others had access to that phone. Whenever I saw him on the phone after that I always wondered…….