Archive for December, 2007

brief recap

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
  • friend with addict kid doing ok.  rehab costs WAY more than college.
  • another friend just had a stroke!  don’t forget to live life
  • work is fucking busy.  doesn’t help that I insisted on dumping losers, leaving only me
  • very hard to hire developers in Hawaii, yet no one willing to pay for good people thus further depressing the market
  • work life balance is terrible.  no time for blogging and other personal development tasks.  next year will be different!

less than a crap-ton

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

given the fact that the crap-ton girl is going to be losing her job this christmas, and the fact that I am currently dealing with the retard employees at Sprint, I’d like to ammend/clarify my comments from the previous post.

first of all, not everyone needs to be CEO of something.  it’s like the myth of college prep in public schools - you aren’t failing at anything if you don’t apply/don’t get in.  this chick was good at her job, she appeared to be enjoying it, and the company was benefiting.  too bad they have to shut down now.

second, a bad employee will totally fuck up whatever value you offer a customer.  I use Sprint because of the amazing SERO plan I am on.  my Treo 700p is good PDA phone.  Sprint customer service (telephone) is pretty good too.  put together, it’s a killer combo.  I had a problem though that required me to walk into a retail store/service center, and the fuckers that staff the place are so useless, that after 1 hour, I was ready to say fuck it, and go iPhone.  it would cost me twice as much per month, and I’d have to be an Apple fanboy, but it would give me a way to escape the hell that was Sprint.

so in summary, ms. crap-ton got me to spend more money at CompUSA in 10 minutes than I had spent there in the last 5 years at least (and I spend a ton on technology every year), while Retard McDickinass at Sprint almost made me spend $600 on a device and double my monthly costs WITH ANOTHER VENDOR because he was prick.