Party Vibe

I was going to write to the head office at Co-Op east of england as they keep sending the wrong databases for the cheap wine offers – sometimes 20-50p extra turns up on a bottle of wine when the card on the shelf indicates less

to be fair the young staff are really good at sorting out the problems and never quibble but I feel sorry for them as its a hassle, but its happened a number of times in a row now and I wonder how many people don’t notice they are being charged slightly extra?

it does work both ways though

this is in our local paper today

http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/content/eveningstar/news/story.aspx?brand=ESTOnline&category=News&tBrand=ESTOnline&tCategory=News&itemid=IPED19%20Jun%202008%2012%3A18%3A20%3A430

now the magazine in question is clearly aimed at teenagers or young adults and the “naughty” pictures were inside it rather than on open display, but someone took the trouble to write in to the Council

they (the Council) have pulled and destroyed loads of copies which will reduce the advertisers reach and may put off some advertisers from renewing, and the council is also considering withdrawing some funding for that magazine. I expect they probably won’t carry out that particular threat and the mag will return to the shelves but in return there will be more censorship of the content

also when we do this it means that normal people are perfectly within their rights to whinge about even our legal raves by complaining to council, cops or venue managers (and thats got loads of my mates being made to turn down their rigs or even having events cancelled)

you might as well do it as the companies have a budget set aside because its cheaper than solving the real problems leading to the complaints

a couple of girls I know from Reading worked in this company which was literally just there to deal with complaints in the insurance industry

the company didn’t actually service insurance policies or do any proper admin (they didn’t even have access to some of the info), it just did public relations and paid out compensation to people and acted on behalf of loads of insurers

the worst part of it is the offices they were in was once part of a proper insurance company but that company downsized and bangalored a lot of its work – as did loads of other insurers in that part of Reading (once almost as active as London’s “square mile!” It then employed this shell company to pick up the pieces of dealing with the problems.

This may sound wholly daft but in financial terms for short-term gain it made more profit to do this than to spend more money on “proper” admin procedures :crazy_diz

I remember a few years back how BT once delayed installing this ISP’s phone lines for ages and bought them racks and racks of free modems and top line Cisco kit as “compensation”, but they made more of a profit that way than if they had stuck to the customers delivery date (as it would have meant digging up a road during some peak season and paying compensation to local businesses or something like that)