A scandal in Romania

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1. Grabber says:

   January 28, 2013 at 6:41 am

   Eh, two months is nothing. A lot of European universities want a similar amount of data (including sometimes copies of bank statements to verify that the bank account number is as claimed) and then take several months to reimburse, I’ve found.

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   • galoisrepresentations says:

     January 28, 2013 at 7:46 pm

     The length of time is not so much what concerns me, it’s more that email inquiries of the form “did you receive the information I sent” go unanswered. International wire transfers are something that require a little care to do properly. A slightly different flavour of incompetence (which didn’t worry me at all) arose when dealing with a certain English institution which shall go unnamed: they had a carefully prepared online form for foreign wire transfers which asked for most of the relevant information, but didn’t have a line to write in the actual account number. Upon being told of this fact, the response was “oh yes, we noticed that a year ago, we’ll get around to changing it at some point; please sent us the account number directly” which indicates more of a friendly and pleasant bumbling incompetence rather than anything more sinister. That’s a little different from “here’s a copy of my passport and my back account numbers” followed by radio silence.

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2. Georges Elencwajg says:

   September 14, 2014 at 3:02 am

   Is your title adapted from Conan Doyle ?

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   • galoisrepresentations says:

     September 14, 2014 at 12:47 pm

     Indeed. Maybe now is a good time to mention that I was paid, in the end.

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