I worked for a coffee shop. It was great, we only had one problem; occasionally there was a bit of a mix up at the serving hatch. The salt and sugar were in similar containers. Sometimes we put a pinch or two of salt in our customer’s coffee, not very often, and then just a […]
Why?
I have two children: My youngest (two) asks why. Why are we going in the car? Why should I wear boots? Why is the sky blue? My eldest (eight) asks why. Why is there global warming? Why are people fighting in Bahrain? Why is the sky blue? It does my head in. But the thing […]
Lotus Notes
I have just started working somewhere new. They use Lotus Notes as an e-mail solution instead of Microsoft’s ubiquitous Outlook. It has some novel customer focused features: 1. E-mail addresses often contain random X Y or Z middle initials. Users can have multiple addresses with these random initials in. This helps confuse senders. 2. Large […]
Fresh as the Moment when the Pod went Pop
All companies obsess about something, their USP, their IP, the thing that they can do that nobody else can. I used to work for Birdseye, the frozen pea people. They used to obsess about getting the peas out of the field and frozen within 2 1/2 hours. They had a panel of pea tasters who […]
Tickets Please
I use the train a lot, and I buy a lot of tickets. The guys on East Midlands Mainline are very determined that I pay for all this travel. 1. They have ticket checking barriers at all entrances to the platforms to make sure I have a ticket. 2. They have train “managers” on the […]
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