Posts from — January 2010

I heard about 15 minutes of the State of The Union speech last night.  It was indeed a statement to my constitution that I didn’t yell out in a loud voice how much I have disagreed with the statements that this confused man was making. [Read more →]

Dear health Club owners and Real Estate Owners:

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you.

Not to thank you for a level of service that you have provided to me, because you provide a no frills no service business model. Not to thank you for restoring the concept of a company doing somthing right just because it would be the right thing to do, but it is not required by law. [Read more →]

Watch your contracts!  Any time you sign up for a monthly service, especially something where you sign an authorisation form of any type.  About a year and a half ago I signed up for a gym membership, yes that is the beginning of comedy of errors.  Now you can read the rest of the story. [Read more →]

I sold computers for Dell for about a year.  Then I moved to other areas within Dell and got off of the sales floor.  The one thing that I learned was that the 3 year warranty is a real cash cow from any company.  Those warranties are not a huge expense to the customer and they are generally a 90% profit to the company that sells them.  That is why we got a spiff, or an additional bonus, for selling one. [Read more →]

My son turns 16 this week.  He told me what he wants for his birthday.  He wants “freedom”.  He is still mad at me since I made him go to bed last night earlier than 11:30.  Despite the fact that he had to get up this morning at 5:30 so that he could be driven the 30 minutes to get to school and go to band practice before 7. [Read more →]