I am a bit of a weather geek, and a history geek, and sometimes a weather history geek. But you knew that already.
So anyway, I heard about this interesting proposal to change the naming system for hurricanes, and I certainly appreciate the sentiment.
I know this may come as a surprise to some of you, but I am asking this sincerely.
Please go away.
If only we could figure out how to harness him up, we’d have a new power source.
And if you know anyone, anywhere or have any friends or family you can do it too!
Networking is how you can find a job, find an apartment without a pesky broker, or find a home for that cat who needs one. It is not about trading favors, it’s about knowing people. If you know people and have an email address, you too can network!
Ahem.
I think it is safe to say that the march of human rights has made steady though inconsistent progress over the last 100+ years. In the last 48 hours some interesting stories have popped up that have reminded me not only of how far we’ve come but also of how far we have to go.
One of the greatest disservices ever done to workers in this country was the introduction of the phrase, “The customer is always right.” The credit for that tidbit of wisdom goes to Stanley Marcus of retailer Neiman Marcus. Thanks, Stanley.
The customer is NOT always right. Anyone who has ever worked in retail, food service, or front line customer service of any kind can tell you that. In our society comprised of increasingly entitled, unintelligent, lazy, self-centered, and generally ignorant people, giving them something so blatantly easy, so totally pandering to grab onto as “The customer is always right” has done nothing but harm.
That has never been more obvious than in the last few days when the vine video in this article, if you can call a 6 second loop a video, went viral.
Not in the way that most people think of “hacking”, where some teenager or twentysomething thousands of miles away taps away on their laptop in an Internet cafe and gains control of your car. Never going to happen, and do you know why?
Because your car is not a wireless device, like a PDA or a laptop. It may have computers in it, but they aren’t networked together in the way that we think of a computer network. That’s why.
Slowly.
I have to admit that the Texas Anti-Woman Law and the Zimmerman verdict coming within hours of one another made me really unhappy with humanity for a while. Then there was the announcement that The View was hiring Jenny McCarthy to fill its patented Obnoxious Vapid Contentious Blond Host seat.
That about did me in. How does somebody like her get paid $$$ to sit on TV and spew that dangerous crap when Geoff and I are working constantly, are far smarter and funnier, and we’re barely making ends meet?
July 14, 2013
TO: The State of Florida
FROM: Common Sense
RE: Last Night’s Court Decision
Please remedy the error in last night’s court decision. If the unfortunate laws cited in the case are not overturned forthwith, please refer to the the following remedy.
CC: Texas State Legislature, re: The Bill That Shall Not Be Named
That was the title of the email I sent to Petflow.com yesterday morning at 7:45am when I realized that my inbox was inundated and it wasn’t showing signs of stopping.
Before I go on I should probably warn you, this is not one of my rants. This is a story about customer service. Good customer service.
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