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» Good Advice
rough sleep
If severe drunkenness, missed train, unfamiliar surroundings and lack of any other option has led you to contemplate sleeping under some bushes in the station car park for a few hours until first train, do make sure you carefully lay down with your fingers plaited neatly across your chest or similar 'intentional posture cues'. Otherwise a brief glance from a passerby at your loosely splayed body will convince them that you are in fact a corpse and they will freak out.
(Sat 22nd May 2010, 0:41, More)
rough sleep
If severe drunkenness, missed train, unfamiliar surroundings and lack of any other option has led you to contemplate sleeping under some bushes in the station car park for a few hours until first train, do make sure you carefully lay down with your fingers plaited neatly across your chest or similar 'intentional posture cues'. Otherwise a brief glance from a passerby at your loosely splayed body will convince them that you are in fact a corpse and they will freak out.
(Sat 22nd May 2010, 0:41, More)
» Complaining
Coalition deal coverage on BBC R4 News
I have not yet had a reply from the BBC in regard to the distortion of time / events during a news report broadcast in the immediate aftermath of the inconclusive election result earlier this year.
Essentially, the Friday 11pm news bulletin on R4 that week changed the running order of the three party leaders' initial proposals for meeting / discussing / offering deals to be something other than the chronological order in which they had taken place that day.
To my mind this hugely distorted the context of the speeches made. Indeed, it seemed to make one leader appear to reply to the speech of another which was unconnected and was not, in fact, made public first. It also seemed to delegate another leader to 'the back of the queue' in the power-sharing stakes.
I would still like to hear from the News & Current Affairs people as to what editorial decision was or wasn't made that evening in regard to this being broadcast in this defective/deceptive manner.
I'm not some paranoid conspiracy theorist, but this seemed like dereliction of duty, willful 'window-dressing' or a blatant abuse of power (possibly with very little actual outward effect).
(Sat 4th Sep 2010, 10:47, More)
Coalition deal coverage on BBC R4 News
I have not yet had a reply from the BBC in regard to the distortion of time / events during a news report broadcast in the immediate aftermath of the inconclusive election result earlier this year.
Essentially, the Friday 11pm news bulletin on R4 that week changed the running order of the three party leaders' initial proposals for meeting / discussing / offering deals to be something other than the chronological order in which they had taken place that day.
To my mind this hugely distorted the context of the speeches made. Indeed, it seemed to make one leader appear to reply to the speech of another which was unconnected and was not, in fact, made public first. It also seemed to delegate another leader to 'the back of the queue' in the power-sharing stakes.
I would still like to hear from the News & Current Affairs people as to what editorial decision was or wasn't made that evening in regard to this being broadcast in this defective/deceptive manner.
I'm not some paranoid conspiracy theorist, but this seemed like dereliction of duty, willful 'window-dressing' or a blatant abuse of power (possibly with very little actual outward effect).
(Sat 4th Sep 2010, 10:47, More)
» Complaining
Waitrose sandwich
Found a quite large bit of wet muddy twig in a chicken salad sandwich. took it back, explained twig issue and gave my details. Got nice letter a fortnight later saying they'd analysed the twig and sandwich remains, were sorry and gave me £16 of JL vouchers.
(Sat 4th Sep 2010, 10:24, More)
Waitrose sandwich
Found a quite large bit of wet muddy twig in a chicken salad sandwich. took it back, explained twig issue and gave my details. Got nice letter a fortnight later saying they'd analysed the twig and sandwich remains, were sorry and gave me £16 of JL vouchers.
(Sat 4th Sep 2010, 10:24, More)
» Good Advice
always make three back up copies
first in case media fails
second in case tech fails
third is now your only copy
(Sat 22nd May 2010, 1:01, More)
always make three back up copies
first in case media fails
second in case tech fails
third is now your only copy
(Sat 22nd May 2010, 1:01, More)
» Call Centres
market research
Simplicity itself.
Caller: ingratiating greeting, sir. do you have time blah blah survey?
Me: Erm, is your company a member of the Market Research Society?
Caller: why yes we take our responsibilities seriously etc etc...
Me: Well I'm sure you do. I myself used to work at a market research company making just these sorts of calls as a student. Yes awful isn't it? Well you cannot interview me. No, I'm afraid you can't.
You see, I know the sort of time this might take, so I will only give answers which will get me through your script in the shortest time possible thus invalidating the integrity of your research to your client. Or if I don't like your tone or if there is any obvious client bias in your questions I will offer answers which may require verbatim transcription and will involve a lot of abuse of the products mentioned, the money spent advertising them and I will constantly contradict my previous answers. Please take whatever steps you can to remove my number from your registry and never call me again or I will complain directly to the MRS and as many consumer organisations as I can think of. Good luck finding those necessary C2s and Es. Thank you"
PS If you ever get a call beginning "I'm calling ON BEHALF OF (company who genuinely supply you stuff) this is usually a market research company who have been given your contact details by said supplier. They want you feel all fuzzy about your car, phone, bed, soup etc and so buy it more often, pay more in future or give them an archetype client profile for future advertising. This why, for example, all BT ads seem cynical, manipulative and very condescending. They are informed by the opinions of people who say yes to answering a tedious customer massage call and how that client's marketeers feel these sorts of people should be treated in order to pay more or more often.
(Mon 7th Sep 2009, 23:52, More)
market research
Simplicity itself.
Caller: ingratiating greeting, sir. do you have time blah blah survey?
Me: Erm, is your company a member of the Market Research Society?
Caller: why yes we take our responsibilities seriously etc etc...
Me: Well I'm sure you do. I myself used to work at a market research company making just these sorts of calls as a student. Yes awful isn't it? Well you cannot interview me. No, I'm afraid you can't.
You see, I know the sort of time this might take, so I will only give answers which will get me through your script in the shortest time possible thus invalidating the integrity of your research to your client. Or if I don't like your tone or if there is any obvious client bias in your questions I will offer answers which may require verbatim transcription and will involve a lot of abuse of the products mentioned, the money spent advertising them and I will constantly contradict my previous answers. Please take whatever steps you can to remove my number from your registry and never call me again or I will complain directly to the MRS and as many consumer organisations as I can think of. Good luck finding those necessary C2s and Es. Thank you"
PS If you ever get a call beginning "I'm calling ON BEHALF OF (company who genuinely supply you stuff) this is usually a market research company who have been given your contact details by said supplier. They want you feel all fuzzy about your car, phone, bed, soup etc and so buy it more often, pay more in future or give them an archetype client profile for future advertising. This why, for example, all BT ads seem cynical, manipulative and very condescending. They are informed by the opinions of people who say yes to answering a tedious customer massage call and how that client's marketeers feel these sorts of people should be treated in order to pay more or more often.
(Mon 7th Sep 2009, 23:52, More)