So T wanted shrimp for dinner, a simple request - normally I’d go to the one decent seafood place in Bensalem but pressed for time I went to Acme - never my first choice, service is challenging on the best of days there. So there I am standing at the fish counter - behind me I can hear a gaggle of deli-ladies partying like it’s 1999, but over their noise I couldn’t attract any attention - suddenly the fish waiters numbers grew (we were 2, then shortly thereafter we formed a quartet of pissed off Pescetarians) Eventually I did the only thing I could think to do, I went looking for a manager.
10 minutes later I’m explaining to the manager the issue and invited him to come stand with us at the fish counter, so he could ‘fully soak in the full Acme experience’ - about 4 minutes after that I had my order of shrimp - The manager made it very clear - he had no explanation for the bad service - nor did he make any excuses, - I totally respect that.
If the experience had ended there I would have been satisfied, chalking the experience up as a standard trip to the Acme - but after I paid and was headed towards the door - the same manager stopped me, invited me over to the customer service desk - and proceeded to ring me up a Acme gift-card for the inconvenience - telling me that he’s sorry for my negative experience and he hopes the gift-card would encourage me to give Acme another chance. A pretty classy move.
Amazing some of the things you learn from looking at 10-15 years worth of client comps
In every design treatment pitch I make - there’s always at least 3 treatments, #1 is the well-manacured, tasteful option, #2 is like #1 in many ways - but spent her last two years of college abroad - #3 is the wild-child complete with some trampy and slutty tendencies, none of the sisters are bad choices, it really depends on how adventurous a client is feeling.
I would like to publicly announce that I will no longer be flying United Airlines, unless the also ban - Caucasians, Afro Americans, Asians, Indians, people of Latin descent, old people, people wearing pajamas, people traveling with small children and people wearing sandals with socks… If we’re going to exclude - let’s at least do a good job of it.
www.petside.com
United Airlines announced that nine different dog breeds will no longer be permitted to fly on their aircrafts.
A bit of randomly generated art - I kind of like it.
Chapter 6: where our hero stabs the chief of police in the eye with the key to the city, and holes away in the Motel Six on Route 1 with four pounds of atomic fireballs and a stall shower full of bathtub gin.
Inevitably a client has content locked in a protected pdf with no clue as to the password, a number of years ago I came up with a left-handed way to get around pdf copy protection today I found myself staring at a 1000 page protected pdf - too big to try any of the online services, so I gave my somewhat moldy tip another try, still works, I now have a 100% unprotected pdf.
Here’s a link to the updated software
and the blood ran #b02b41
I see a headline like that and all I can think of is, “Wow, that’s the wrong tool for the job, ya want something with a point!, for the stabbing.”
