Life of db
The little quips and musings that occur in the Life of Dylan Blanchard.
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… Sneaky way of saying “change your marketing positions so that we can call you all the time”. Sneaky indeed, but I still hate you. And you can’t call me.
Also, implications for marketers:
Try honesty.
When I read your email it seemed like you were going to directly call me to provide some sort of “service audit”. After clicking through, most will come to realize you’re just looking for an opportunity to spam. Instead of disappointment, why don’t you begin lining the tunnel with light? How happy are people going to be if they “opt-in” to a service that you’ve masked, and end up with calls/emails/texts that weren’t of the original promise.I should have known. After being with you for 8 years, not once have you called to offer a lower price point or provide insight towards savings.
Point being: Be honest in the beginning and you’ll avoid the anger at the end of tunnel.
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From reading the comments, it seems a lot of people believe that the cellphone ban during takeoff and landing is safety related, and mandated by the FAA.
It’s not.
The FCC had the ban implemented because as planes fly along, full of hundreds of passengers, their phones simultaneously jump from one tower’s coverage to the next. As the cell systems are ancient, this can cause the network to crash.
So the ban is a result of cellphone providers terrible infrastructure, and not because your phone could cause the aircraft to fall out of the sky.It’s during times like these (15 minutes before I board my flight to vegas for a week of… Cycling) that I think, fuck you, airplane/cell phone bitches.
However, on a positive note, it’s sunny out there AND Rogers has a new North American data add-on that transfers all of your data for use in NA for only $10/month. Key. -
Link reblogged from ONE FORTY PLUS
I believe that the BP oil spill could have even bigger ramifications on our country than we already realize.
If this disaster exits the public consciousess without there being a 1:1 ratio of fault to accountability, then we as a nation will have demonstrated to our government (and the corporations whos interests they protect) that there is nothing we won’t tolerate - that under any circumstances of wrongdoing, even one without moral or religious debate, we can be manipulated and made to forget. And if we allow that precedent to be set, there will be no turning back. They will know something no democratic government ever should: that no matter the circumstances, they can always fall back on the people losing interest if they can be distracted long enough.
He’s got a point. We can get our panties all in a bunch over things like Rogers’ iPad plan bullshit (and, their iPhone pricing last year), but when we actually have something really important on our hands like the oil spill, we, as a community, are a lot less noisy about it.
Compliance and acceptance isn’t worth shit.
