by on April 23, 2009

Dear Service Providers

I have my own little “especially in this economy” statement for you all:

“Don’t piss me off trying to sell me more services when you’re not keeping me happy with the services I’m already paying you to provide, especially in this economy where I have more resources than ever before (both financial resources and competition-related) to dump you like a sack of potatoes and go to one of your competitors. MY economy is fine, but clearly yours isn’t if you’re calling upon me to give you more money.”

We’ve already ditched Verizon and we’re not afraid of change so much that we won’t change every single service provider we’ve got to stop this nonsense.

We will not:

  • Accept any service offered through an unsolicited phone call – I will call you
  • Accept sub-standard service/support
  • Continue to pay our current rates if there are better offers for equal services
  • Pay more for the same services “just because of the economy”
  • Submit to pressure to add services we don’t want or dump services with other providers that are keeping us satisfied

/end rant. I’ll have more on this after we sort out this matter and explain how it started and how I finish it.

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by on April 22, 2009

A Workout Anyone Can Do

Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room at each side.

With a 5-lb potato sack in each hand, extend your arms straight out from your sides and hold them there as long as you can. Try to reach a full minute, and then relax.

Each day you’ll find that you can hold this position for just a bit longer.

After a couple of weeks, move up to 10-lb potato sacks.

Then try 50-lb. potato sacks and then eventually try to get to where you can lift a 100-lb. potato sack in each hand and hold your arms straight for more than a full minute. (I’m at this level.)

After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each of the sacks.

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by on April 22, 2009

American Idol Season 8 Top 7 Predictions Part Deuce

picture-51Since the much undeserved judges’ save last week, I’ve had plenty of time to figure out who was going to suck most last night, and I was not disappointed. Lil Rounds once again looked like she was going to cry and someone just about had to hold her momma back when Simon was talking. They cut away from her really fast as she started flapping her lips to say something that was going to be censored.

Matt Giraud did better than last week, but at this point, it doesn’t matter too much what he does because he’s competing against Danny, Allison, and Adam anyway. Does it really matter whether you go home as #7 or #4/5? I don’t think so. I’d feel more proud about being runner up than third place, but we should just take a vote now on the losers and get to the big stage to see the real singers duke it out.

For the record, last night was at least the 4th time we have either talked through or gotten up to get food during Kris’ performance. Not a good sign, man. Neither is being in the Bottom 3 five billion times, Anoop Desai.

Nice seeing ya, Lil and Anoop.

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by on April 15, 2009

The Best Sentence Ever

Just because you have an MBA doesn’t mean you can function in society or the workplace. This is from an actual data manager for a company with over 5,000 employees:

“I would like to request that if any shipping is happening for Xxxx programs that you are not aware of that I know is happening, please cc: me on it.”

Huh?! I just wish I had my old company e-mails to dig out more grammatical wonders.

Filed Under: Back to the Basics, Business, Common Sense, Humor, Writing Tagged With: , , ,
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