Month: September 2006

All about Melanie

You would think that it calling Rogers and talking to the voice automation is bad. Then you have never had the pleasure of meeting, Melanie, the inbred country cousin that guards the pay-as-you-go phone line. This computer does not even recognize the common commands that you can use with other auto-gatekeepers. And what is worse is that every Rogers call centre rat is trained to sick Melanie on you. Why can Rogers use the same system as every other service for Pay-as-you-go. At least that person has half a brain to understand what you want, and not listing everything.

And the fat lady has sung.

Wow, what a nail-bitter of an election. After 7 long years of prosperity it is now time for Lord to ride off in the beautiful sunset. New Brunswick is in such good shape now that Graham should have an easy term ahead. Some of the results were shocking but in the end a Camille Theriault said in 1999. The people of New Brunswick are always right and they have decided it was time to change. But is it really, is our system really right or is it time that it becomes fixed. When CTV News Atlantic signed off the popular vote (votes of everyone combined) came in the it did not match the real seat count results. 29 Lib / 26 PC / 0 NDP / 0 Ind. Which in percent that works out to 52.7% Lib / 47.3% PC / 0% NDP / 0% Ind. But the popular vote was. 47.7% PC / 47.0% Lib / 5.1% NDP / 0.2% Ind. That in seats would be 26 PC / 26 Lib / 3 NDP. So the question to ask is this. Is this fair that close to 10% of votes in NB do not matter.

Another Letter

Another Letter

Within 20 hours of an interview, this letter came in. Like come on if you end the meeting with “I’m going to hand this off to the Seasonal recruiters. As I explained we schedule our shifts two weeks in advance. So you should hear from us in about a week and a half.” Then like wait a week or so before sending out the letter. Even the approach IBM takes is better. “Thank you for coming in, but I don’t really think you will fit in this department why don’t I hand off you application to the other department.” But any recruiter that is this spineless to say a week or so and then run to stuff an envelope in the mail as soon as you leave gees…