Too Nice in the Workplace?
Some thoughts from the Career Management Blog.
Some thoughts from the Career Management Blog.
From a Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory franchise, according to The Consumerist. I bring this up to point out that a minimum level of common sense is required for good customer service. If you think you have enough rules to cover it, think again. Also see here and here on customer service. (HT: Pursuing Holiness.)
I was thinking about faxes yesterday because someone asked me for my fax number. Now the fact is that I removed my fax line around nine months ago, and that it had been used for nothing but receiving junk faxes for a couple of years before that. All my vendors and customers take purchase orders,…
I’ve discovered that going full tilt while I’m under the weather tends to increase rather than decrease my lost time, so here I am in my living room easy chair, hoping what I think is a minor illness will go away quickly. Problem is, I can’t shut off my brain, so enter my Samsung Galaxy…
I just reluctantly switched to cellular service only. I did so reluctantly, even though we were receiving less and less calls on the landline phone. Essentially all it was doing was eating away money. I’m also learning to keep all my tasks listed, my calendar updated, my contacts annotated, and generally my whole life organized…
The podcast/YouTube channel Into the Desert has been examining a number of issues in religion, philosophy, and politics. They have started a series on the problems with the IT business in general, including consolidation, deterioration of service, and employment issues including instability. Here’s the first video. They’ve made a second, but if you want to…
I’ve become much more appreciative of Twitter as time goes on (my profile is here) as time goes on. At first it seemed like a waste of time, but I decided to try it. In looking around for folks who were using Twitter in a serious way. I think there should be a simple social…
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