6 spiked mace ball and chain
Sep. 17th, 2009 12:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seryn1) I'm probably seeming confrontational and grouchy. Try not to take it personally. I'm having non-public issues I don't want to discuss yet, but I'm extremely antagonistic toward a lot of things that might otherwise be mostly ignored.
2) I noticed something weird. Email to my DW linked account is date sorted newest at the bottom, but email to my RealLife™ email is new-at-the-top. I tried toggling each of them and it felt wrong. I think that's hilarious and creepy/strange.
3) My phones on my desk both ring quieter than my neighbor's phones when both sets of windows are open. I have no understanding of how someone could leave their phone set that loud. But I sure wish he didn't have so many friends who live in far-away time zones because his 2am phone calls are really irritating.
4) I emailed the people at a place I habitually web-order from. They'd gotten a new website and it had annoyances... like no login detection, so it tells me I need to login to place my order while having my shipping address in view on the page. I figured they wouldn't care since I'm buying the minimum amount at each instance. I'm the kind of customer they could piss off and never notice the difference to their overall sales. But someone from every department replied. The customer service people said they were forwarding my comments on, the web team said they knew about the issues I mentioned, the marketing people agreed that the features I wanted would be nice, and someone managing the project also replied. I feel better about exclusively doing business with them now. They have a superior product (organic fair-trade coffee, roasted with skill) at a decent price (about the same as buying beans from a frou-frou roastery, and slightly more than the supermarket prices) but I wasn't expecting service. There aren't any companies that have the best products, the best prices, and the best service. They cannot exist. But this was close especially considering the prices are the same as what I would pay to buy locally.
#4 is not enough to counterbalance #1, but I've re-read the emails telling me I'm [awesome] several times.
5) I understand why people use retail therapy to make themselves feel better. The news ticker this morning says 8 million Americans consider suicide every year. So, depending on the definition of "consider" there are about as many suicidal Americans as there are Asian-Americans. I know I would feel tremendous guilt if I bought a bunch of stuff and then offed myself before I got the value back from my investment. I just bought 8 books, clearly I need to finish them first. It's bizarre to me that we could have such an epidemic of something life threatening and have it be such a taboo topic and completely uncovered by health insurance and never discussed by average physicians. Back to #1... I did spend breakfast wondering how successful these 8 million people are and was asking myself if this was an under-served population and would it be a good business serving a niche group with illegal tendencies?
2) I noticed something weird. Email to my DW linked account is date sorted newest at the bottom, but email to my RealLife™ email is new-at-the-top. I tried toggling each of them and it felt wrong. I think that's hilarious and creepy/strange.
3) My phones on my desk both ring quieter than my neighbor's phones when both sets of windows are open. I have no understanding of how someone could leave their phone set that loud. But I sure wish he didn't have so many friends who live in far-away time zones because his 2am phone calls are really irritating.
4) I emailed the people at a place I habitually web-order from. They'd gotten a new website and it had annoyances... like no login detection, so it tells me I need to login to place my order while having my shipping address in view on the page. I figured they wouldn't care since I'm buying the minimum amount at each instance. I'm the kind of customer they could piss off and never notice the difference to their overall sales. But someone from every department replied. The customer service people said they were forwarding my comments on, the web team said they knew about the issues I mentioned, the marketing people agreed that the features I wanted would be nice, and someone managing the project also replied. I feel better about exclusively doing business with them now. They have a superior product (organic fair-trade coffee, roasted with skill) at a decent price (about the same as buying beans from a frou-frou roastery, and slightly more than the supermarket prices) but I wasn't expecting service. There aren't any companies that have the best products, the best prices, and the best service. They cannot exist. But this was close especially considering the prices are the same as what I would pay to buy locally.
#4 is not enough to counterbalance #1, but I've re-read the emails telling me I'm [awesome] several times.
5) I understand why people use retail therapy to make themselves feel better. The news ticker this morning says 8 million Americans consider suicide every year. So, depending on the definition of "consider" there are about as many suicidal Americans as there are Asian-Americans. I know I would feel tremendous guilt if I bought a bunch of stuff and then offed myself before I got the value back from my investment. I just bought 8 books, clearly I need to finish them first. It's bizarre to me that we could have such an epidemic of something life threatening and have it be such a taboo topic and completely uncovered by health insurance and never discussed by average physicians. Back to #1... I did spend breakfast wondering how successful these 8 million people are and was asking myself if this was an under-served population and would it be a good business serving a niche group with illegal tendencies?
