Ben_Who, could I get the name of that book? I'd love to read it!
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Quoth WishfulSpirit View PostFor the Altima story the person said the regional manager was the one who wouldn't allow them to stop renting to the guy. It sounds like just one person has his head up his keister. Maybe a call to actual corporate will get something done. Sometimes individuals get stuck on a specific thing but corporate has a whole Army of bean counters that might see things differently. Or maybe they could just save the stinking car and only rent that one to the gentleman who can't control his dogs
But, that doesn't mean you should rent to a known bad driver or other person who totals them, just because you can absorb the loss doesn't mean you're smart to take it.... in the hopes it will somehow lead to a profit That's where the dissonance occurs and drives front line employees nuts.Last edited by Argabarga; 10-10-2016, 10:45 PM.- They say nothing good happens at 2AM, they're right, I happen at 2AM.
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Quoth eltf177 View PostBen_Who, could I get the name of that book? I'd love to read it!
If I can't find the book, I can probably find some articles he wrote along the same lines. (Crates of magazines in the basement, I'm telling you.) He left the biz in the mid-1990s, which was almost but not quite pre-Internet. He has a couple of articles online, but that's it.
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Quoth Shyla View PostComplete idiots work intheirevery corporate office.I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
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I will note, after years in the Navy, there are those who will call all colas "cokes" and others who will call all colas "pepsis". Not that it makes any difference as far as not remembering the rest of your lunch, but I would never hold the sofa name against them unless they tried to call a lemon lime type by a cola name.
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Argabarga, it was great to see your post! Always makes a morning better.
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Captain - I grew up in New Orleans, where the "all sodas are Cokes" thing is overwhelmingly popular. We even refer to Pepsis as "Cokes" (including Sprite and 7UP -- *sometimes* -- Sorry) -- Just keep in mind that Pepsi can be hard to find in restaurants there; unless it's a franchise of a company that has an exclusivity deal with PepsiCo, there's a 99% chance that they'll only stock Coke products; the other 1% will have both of them on one soda fountain, which can look surreal, at best. Even at grocery stores, you can typically expect Coke to have 3-5 times as much shelf space as Pepsi."For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
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Quoth Ben_Who View PostIt's been out of print for about twenty years, I'm afraid; the fact that even I don't know that much about it indicates that it wasn't really a career priority of his. But I'll ask him the next time I see him and see if he still has a few copies floating around somewhere. I don't remember the title off the top of my head.
If I can't find the book, I can probably find some articles he wrote along the same lines. (Crates of magazines in the basement, I'm telling you.) He left the biz in the mid-1990s, which was almost but not quite pre-Internet. He has a couple of articles online, but that's it.
I recently bought a little known book published in the mid-80s from Amazon, and had the author autograph it. I'm taking a class with her."I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."
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so much of the fun times, now gone by the wayside, never to come again, like a Cleveland Browns starting quarterback.
Racket_Man quoth:and yes (as he types this with dripping sarcasm) this is the modern corp. reality and you and I and all of the other (so-called) retail slaves have to deal with -- KEEP the customer at all costs even IF it looses you money in the long (or short) run.
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At least you weren't a fan of the 1992 - 2012 Pittsburgh Pirates like I was... twenty straight losing seasons, that still gives me cold sweats.
And my first game was Pirates and MONTREAL EXPOS at Three Rivers.... so I'm no bandwagon jumper.- They say nothing good happens at 2AM, they're right, I happen at 2AM.
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Quoth Argabarga View PostAt least you weren't a fan of the 1992 - 2012 Pittsburgh Pirates like I was... twenty straight losing seasons, that still gives me cold sweats.Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines. --Enzo Ferrari
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Quoth ladydyani View PostAnd so begins the great soda/pop/coke/pepsi debate of 2016.Unseen but seeing
oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
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Quoth Becks View PostIt's soda, and for drinking purposes, I drink Pepsi™.I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
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