Don’t you hate it when someone treats you as a directory? When you tried talking to them, they either ignored you or even say a simple hi, but when they really need you then they would come and talk to you? This usually means you’re an acquaintance category and you are no longer their ‘friend’ after they’ve dug enough information from you.

You might be a Charlotte cosmetic dentist but do you think these people would care? You are part of their ‘unimportant’ network and you’re only valuable if you proof to be useful to these people.

So what do you do when you encounter these kinds of people?

1. Be an ass and tell them what they want to hear, albeit the wrong ones. For example they want to know where to get the camera’s cheapest price, so direct them to the most expensive ones. When they told you it cost them an arm and a leg, you can always tell them: “it wasn’t THAT expensive a year ago…”

2. Tell them nothing or tell them you don’t know at all.

3. Tell them the truth.

You have better idea how to handle these kinds of people?

I just realized that some of the most screwed up part in some people’s email is the signature. When it comes to the signature, you tend to see these tag line: “God bless…”, “Jesus is Lord” or even “God loves everyone of us”

You want to know what I think? I think people should have the decency to read what they are going to sent. Suppose you say you want to deliver a bad news like some guy’s wife just died or a church-goer’s husband is gay. You sent the very same mail and when the recipient read till the last part, imagine what they would think. Consider this scenario:

Lauren,

Yesterday upon taking your best diet pills from the church cabinet, I saw you husband was kissing Debbie with utmost passion. I think that you deserve to know the truth.

God bless.

Yours sincerely,
Joan

What, all of a sudden God is blessing the sinners within the sacred halls? Or perhaps she wants God to bless some heretic sinners? This beginning to sound like a pagan worshiping group. And it doesn’t happen in one place, it’s happening everywhere! You see it especially in the service industry. I’ve seen it every day:

Dear Customer,

I’m sorry about your hard drive but your warranty is over for the past one year. If you wish to purchase the hard drive, I shall pass your case over to the sales spare parts.

Regards,
Michael

Mission statement: Delighting our customer is our number one priority

You see where I’m getting? These people should have just their signature left as blank. Why want to even put anything there unless you want to advertise something. That is, if the advertisement is appropriate.

There’s only one comment about the movie: it suck. It failed at a level where it makes you wonder is it a right choice for Hong Kong stars to move into Hollywood. By seeing Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh aches my heart. They made great shows in Hong Kong and they were one of the best in their fields. However Hollywood seems to have dulled their edges and it seems the problem lies in the way Hollywood produce their movies.

One of the reason I heard many people complain about the movie is the lack of production quality that never existed in the past 2 movies. It’s a surprise why Brendan Frasier would even consider doing this movie. The most surprising is that it was directed by Rob Cohen and I think he needs a colon cleanse treatment for producing such a sucky movie compared to Dragonheart, XXX and Stealth.

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“Why so serious? Let’s put a smile on that face!”

That was the famous quote from Joker. Trust me; after you watch through the whole show, you would absolutely love Heath Ledger. And if the DVD or Blu-ray comes out, trust me that you really need a discount home theater seating to really enjoy this movie to the max.

*Warning: Spoilers ahead*

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I guess it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the last past 2 weeks has been the most hectic day of my live. Aside from preparation to support our large account customers on our new product, the psychology of moving boxes seem to have taken its toll on my body.

Back to the idiotic technical adviser, she started a war that she shouldn’t have. Unknown to me, there were bickering emails sent back and forth amongst her and the team leader and it seems that she managed to piss some of the manager. The guy came to me, with an email and asked me to list out what she lacked in performing in the technical department.

Technical Support is a civilized department where people don’t just shoot you off. They gave you time to prepare information for the last stand in any war. To me, I have put what I thought would be the most truthful insights: she has zero knowledge in technical expertise, despite of various training she went through.

I even put there that she should be a fashion adviser or make-up artist, not working in a technical front line where split second decision coupled with experience in technical knowledge is vital to keep the customers happy.