Folding a basket of clean laundry and a scorpion crawled out from under a pillowcase 
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That’s not a tiny complaint.
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I’m sorry about all that clean laundry you have to destroy now
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I managed to contain it inside of the pillowcase, and threw it outside. It was a $40 silk pillowcase was because obviously I will have to destroy it now
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I spent $30 on petunias for my hanging baskets a few weeks ago and they all died.
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After going through layoffs two weeks ago, Mr darlings company announced there will be more in two weeks
Also I drank too much coffee and am vibrating unpleasantly but I still have some coffee left and it’s yummy so I will probably finish it
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SHIT 
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TLDR; not thrilled with Fidelity right now
A couple weeks ago I got a ping that there was a potentially fraudulent access to my Fidelity account, which is where most of my savings are (401k, IRA, HSA, etc.) so they were locking things down and changing credentials/account numbers/etc. Great. I can’t say I was particularly impressed with their insistence that it had to be my computer that was compromised and nothing could possibly be wrong on their end, especially after confirming myself that my computers/network were clean and then being cross-checked by a friend who did DoD security in another life, but okay, I figured I’d just go to once a week instead of once a month checking for a while and make sure nothing suspicious showed up.
Today I had time to jump through the hoops to authenticate and re-enable access to the big accounts, the sort of thing that requires not just a phone call but a passport/ID scan and a real-time picture, and lo and behold found a withdrawal listed for yesterday that didn’t belong.
- The account accessed was supposedly locked down until I called to authenticate (again, today), so how did anyone initiate anything yesterday?
- The withdrawal was done over the internet according to the person I was on the phone with. Except the kind of withdrawal in question is one I’ve done every month for the past 2+ years and per every person at Fidelity I’ve ever spoken to (and I ask every month because I hate having to call), it cannot be done online–it requires an agent to authenticate and submit every damn time.
So either there’s a scammer out there who has my very-recently changed credentials, even-more-recently changed account numbers, and knows how to do something that no one at Fidelity seems to, or someone actually at Fidelity just tried a bad thing.
Fortunately it takes a couple days for that kind of transaction to go through so I don’t think any money actually moved, and the amount requested was pretty small regardless (the fact that it’s a relatively small withdrawal/move I make regularly also makes me think it’s someone who has access to details about my account history), but all accounts are locked down again with ‘the back end’ doing a more thorough investigation since the representative I talked to today couldn’t answer either of the questions above either.
I’ve been considering splitting off some portion of my investments to another brokerage, just so if something happens I can’t be locked out of everything at once…I don’t need any of this money right now so it’s not a major issue atm, but I think this is going to push me into it.
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This is so scary! Anecdote data etc, but I just heard an almost identical story about Fidelity identity theft from someone else yesterday.
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NOoOOooOOoO!! To both of these!
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Here’s my paranoia coming out, but after Fidelity notified you of the issue did you reply to their communication or initiate separate contact? Just asking because I know people in my life who have gotten scammed by their “bank” contacting about fraud and asking for more info that the scammer then uses to gain access. I basically never answer any phone calls or messages from my bank now and just call them directly at their known phone number.
Even if you are already doing all that, figured it would be worth posting as a PSA to others too!
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Yeah, good point–after I got the ping I actually tried to log in (by typing their address) to confirm I was locked out and both times used the number saved in my phone to contact them so I’m not so worried there, but good to point out.
(ETA–they’ve gotten annoyed feedback from me before that after a call they send ‘rate our service’ emails with a link to click and they fail to provide anything other than that masked link so I refuse to respond and just submit the feedback the next time I log in)
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Well SHIT!
(I blame DOGE (not really, but kind of).)
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That seems fair just in the general sense–they should be blamed for many things 
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Scammers are getting bolder because they know they won’t be investigated and financial regulations won’t be followed, it doesn’t not make sense
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Oh, logical and articulate reasoning to support my gut-based assertion. thank you.
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It’s always Trump’s fault.
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Have the strong urge to point out that that Gulf of America is in Russia (or it used to be, the USSR got around to renaming it in the 70s or 80s)
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The only good part of that is my coworker was working with him.
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