If I Were in Charge.....
Instead of sending Rovers to Mars, (I bet you thought I would say we should send Rove to Mars…that's for a later topic) I would pay engineers to find a way to operate household appliances without cords….why can't we have a decent vacuum cleaner that is cordless? And I would eliminate polarized plugs entirely…whose idea was that anyway?
No company in this country would have automated answering systems. When you called someone, a human would answer. No disembodied voice would say, "Please listen to our menu, as it has recently changed". Or "This call will be monitored for quality assurance". What the HELL is that all about? I love this one…"your call is important to us". If it is that important, then hire some poor kid at minimum wage…let him/her learn the business from the ground up….the phone is the MOST important part of a company!! We have CEOs making 2.5 million a year and they can't afford to hire humans?
Change the packaging of our products!! Should it be necessary to use sharp instruments and wire clippers to free a teddy bear from a box??? And if theft is the reason for all this inconvenience, I'd make shoplifting a felony. Or make every schoolkid read "Les Miserables". Or everyone caught shoplifting would have to answer the phones at every company that used automated answering systems for one year. With 98% of the goods at Walmart coming from China, it's pretty obvious that they have found a way to defeat us without ever firing a shot…drive us crazy with their packaging! We are so frustrated trying to open a fripping box of nails that we must turn against one another, venting our accumulated anger on chat boards, in traffic, in politics, etc. And the Chinese are well aware that a nation divided against itself cannot stand, so all they have to do is export and wait patiently.
If I were in charge, we would have more than one president. One was great back when our forefathers made up the rules, but that was what…230 years ago? Things have changed. I would divide the country into fourths….four presidents. We are obviously too large geographically and population-wise for one president.
And how about a Dept. of Profit Accountability? With the huge outflow of our manufacturing jobs to third world countries where the average wage is like what? 7 cents a day, you would think our American corporations would pass these savings on to their fellow countrymen. I saw a cotton T-shirt made in Bangladesh for gods sake selling for $59!! Thanks guys! Why didn't someone think…send the manufacturing jobs to Mexico, pay them a living wage…keeping the Mexicans happily in their land of birth and then I wouldn't have to read instructions on my new vacuum in Spanish for 8 minutes before I realize that I don't speak Spanish! Or French. Who came up with that rule that all instructions had to be in those three languages? Why not Chinese since they make all the products we use? That's another reason they hate us so much…we left them out of the instruction pamphlets.
This is just the beginning of what I would do if I were in charge…I have been on hold with my mortgage company for two days now and as soon as I get to talk to a human, I will be back.
No company in this country would have automated answering systems. When you called someone, a human would answer. No disembodied voice would say, "Please listen to our menu, as it has recently changed". Or "This call will be monitored for quality assurance". What the HELL is that all about? I love this one…"your call is important to us". If it is that important, then hire some poor kid at minimum wage…let him/her learn the business from the ground up….the phone is the MOST important part of a company!! We have CEOs making 2.5 million a year and they can't afford to hire humans?
Change the packaging of our products!! Should it be necessary to use sharp instruments and wire clippers to free a teddy bear from a box??? And if theft is the reason for all this inconvenience, I'd make shoplifting a felony. Or make every schoolkid read "Les Miserables". Or everyone caught shoplifting would have to answer the phones at every company that used automated answering systems for one year. With 98% of the goods at Walmart coming from China, it's pretty obvious that they have found a way to defeat us without ever firing a shot…drive us crazy with their packaging! We are so frustrated trying to open a fripping box of nails that we must turn against one another, venting our accumulated anger on chat boards, in traffic, in politics, etc. And the Chinese are well aware that a nation divided against itself cannot stand, so all they have to do is export and wait patiently.
If I were in charge, we would have more than one president. One was great back when our forefathers made up the rules, but that was what…230 years ago? Things have changed. I would divide the country into fourths….four presidents. We are obviously too large geographically and population-wise for one president.
And how about a Dept. of Profit Accountability? With the huge outflow of our manufacturing jobs to third world countries where the average wage is like what? 7 cents a day, you would think our American corporations would pass these savings on to their fellow countrymen. I saw a cotton T-shirt made in Bangladesh for gods sake selling for $59!! Thanks guys! Why didn't someone think…send the manufacturing jobs to Mexico, pay them a living wage…keeping the Mexicans happily in their land of birth and then I wouldn't have to read instructions on my new vacuum in Spanish for 8 minutes before I realize that I don't speak Spanish! Or French. Who came up with that rule that all instructions had to be in those three languages? Why not Chinese since they make all the products we use? That's another reason they hate us so much…we left them out of the instruction pamphlets.
This is just the beginning of what I would do if I were in charge…I have been on hold with my mortgage company for two days now and as soon as I get to talk to a human, I will be back.
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