Archive for the ‘seattle’ Category
Monday, March 5th, 2012
It really shouldn’t come as a surprise, that the techniques one uses to successfully manage an order-entry customer-service center, do not work so well for a tech-support service center. It’s obvious that they train people to close cases as fast as possible, rather than trying to fix the problem. So you get email support people who avoid 90% of their tickets by just incorrectly marking the ticket for a follow up phone call, a call that they know some other sucker will have to take. If I was manager of that group, I can promise you that if you tried to hot-potato a problem like that more than once, you’d be fired. That such behavior is encouraged speaks volumes about whomever is supposed to be managing Amazon’s support structure, and it’s not a good read.
UPDATE: Looks like representative 8 might actually be the one to take some ownership of the issue. Yeah, I’m underwhelmed.
Tags: amazonsupportsucks, badmanagement, techsupport
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Thursday, March 1st, 2012
The opening act was the same guy as she had last year at the casino, and his act was basically the same as then too. Joan’s act was mostly familiar material as well, but she did throw in the names of recent deaths, though not the Monkee who died that day. But one doesn’t go to see Joan Rivers for fresh comedy, you go to see Joan be Joan, and she delivered on that, with twice the physical comedy skills of people a tenth her age. I had a fun time, and it looked like everyone else did too.
Tags: comedy, seattle, standup, symphonyhall
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
I bought a groupon for the place last summer, with the intention of encouraging myself to work harder on my knee issue, by having a goal to work towards. Now that my knee is starting to feel stable enough to risk acrobatics, I find out they went out of business last month.
d’oh.
Tags: fail, groupon, knee, skating
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Much like a friend posted on his facebook, my high school era song-memory turns out to be pretty strong, making me think I’ve been missing out on karaoke possibilities, not looking for Phil Colins/Genesis songs. And of course, it’s off-weekend at Claire’s karaoke, so I’m thinking I might give Ozzie’s a first try. The only thing holding me back is the thought of how long a walk home it would be, at a later hour than seems safe for the route required, which means a taxi. Other people take taxi’s all the time, I suppose I could too.
Tags: karaoke, music, nostalgia, singing
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
What a difference a year can make. Last time I saw Joan Rivers, it was at a casino, a long drive out of town. This year, she’s playing the Seattle Symphony’s main hall, technically within walking distance. I wonder if the show will be any different.
Tags: careergrowth, comedy
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Thursday, January 19th, 2012
It’s a little surreal today, first the governor declares a state of emergency, and now the city is recommending people leave work now, so that they are home before dark. It’s like we expect the zombies and vampires to come out any second now. Will I make the 100 yards to my home?! Only time will tell! Tune in next week for the exciting conclusion. =p
Tags: snowpocalypse
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Thursday, January 19th, 2012
I tried to do a good deed for the day. I see more than a few people, over the course of this ‘storm’, waiting at the bus stop outside my window at work, a stop that is closed when Metro is on snow routes. So, I put a sign up in the window that says “Bus Stop Closed”, and it only took this guy about 10 minutes before he looked up an noticed it.
Tags: gooddeed, seattle, snow
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
Yesterday, noticed more than a couple people waiting at bus stops that were closed due to the lines that served those stops being on snow routes.
This morning, I notice that the bus maintenance people are helpfully clearing snow from the same, closed, stops. I pity the sucker that thinks they are open because they’ve been cleared.
Tags: coordination, efficiency, government, publictransportation, seattle, snow, weather
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Monday, January 16th, 2012
When I first saw the SLUT off its tracks, I assumed it was weather related. It turns out to have just been a really stupid person, driving without attention to the road before them, or the light that had been red long enough for the train to cross most of Mercer.
I’m sure I could look up the weight of the train, the weight of her car, and measure the distance from impact to final resting place, for both vehicles, but I don’t have a clue what the standard engineering formula is for determining how much of the energy required to lift the train out of the tracks, nor how to determine how much of that energy was imparted by impact from the car, and how much was its own momentum. Or the train’s rolling resistance on pavement.
But my guess would be ‘pretty darn fast’, as an answer to how fast the car was going.
Tags: accident, seattle, snow, southlakeunion, trolley
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Friday, January 13th, 2012
I’m thinking about trying to replicate one of my favorite GHP mashups, Bus Stop Runner, as a karaoke song tonight. It won’t be an exact replica, since the mashup cut’s and jumps around, but I think I can make it work as a straight sing-along; the tempo of Bus Stop will have to be adjusted in parts, and there’s at least one part where Shoot The Runner is in a chorus, while Bus Stop is in a verse, but it’s all fixable.
Tags: karaoke, mashup, seattle
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