Well every other damn thing in the world is Zombies right now so why not a blog theme?
(Still better than sparkly vampires).
I guess it is…. and damn is it looking dated. I should do something about that.
Maybe.
Probably not.
One of the office buildings I regularly spend a bit of my work week at is advertised as a ‘green’ building. Reused materials, solar panels, recycling program, etc. Along with this theme they have a grand total of 17 parking spots around the building that have signs posted that say ‘For Green Vehicles Only’. After the handicapped spots, they are the prime parking areas.
Every time I’ve been at this building, every one of these spots has been empty.
A couple of weeks ago I had a bit of an epiphany. As a result of said epiphany, I parked my Ford F-150 Crew Cab truck in a spot reserved for ‘green’ vehicles. On my way to leave I was accosted buy building management (with a member of building security in tow).
‘You can’t park that here!’
‘Why?’
‘It’s clearly marked for GREEN vehicles ONLY!’
‘So it is…. and?’
‘That THING is clearly NOT green!’ (Yes, he called my baby a ‘thing’. Bastard.)
‘Sure it is.’
‘What? How?’
‘It’s a flex fuel vehicle. In fact, I’m currently running E85.’
‘What?’
‘Ethanol. E85 Ethanol. Corn gas. Green.’
‘That’s not what we meant!’
‘Well you don’t do a very good job of explaining it.’
‘Just don’t park it here again’ and he stormed off (security wandered off a bit earlier… I think to keep from laughing)
In any case… I was back at this building today and noticed something. About a third of the spots that were previously marked as green were no long marked at all. It looks like the unwashed parking masses were now allowed to use them.
The other spots? They all had new shiny signs…. ‘For Hybrid Vehicles Only’.
They were also all empty.
I’ve recently had some good experiences dealing with some companies and their products. As the Internet seems to be 95% bitching, I thought I’d put something positive online for a change.
Picked up some of their items at the local Home Depot for a bathroom remodel. Nothing special… in this case just a package of roller shower hooks. Problem is two of them were broken. Sent the company a complaint email and they responded by mailing me a complete replacement set of hooks. Received it two days after I sent the email.
Two weeks ago I was doing an inventory of my camping gear. I noticed that the glass percolator top for my coffee maker had somehow cracked in half. I contacted Texsport asking if they sold replacements. Instead of selling them to me, they just mailed me two replacement glass tops.
XFX:
Using one of my computers a few weeks ago it just shut off. Tried powering it back on and got nothing. No fans, no post code beeps…. nothing. Noticed that the video card was hot. Burning hot. The GPU fan must have failed and cooked the card. Pulled the card (Nvidia based 1GB 9600GSO), hooked up to the internal video and the machine ran without a problem. I was about to toss the card when on a whim I decided to check how old it was. Turns out it was a few years old but I noticed on the Newegg invoice that it supposedly had a lifetime warranty. I opened a ticket with XFX. They sent me an RMA number and I spent $11 to ship it out to CA. They checked it, verified it was dead and sent me a brand new ATI 5570 650M 1Gb.
So… three good customer services experiences over the course of a month. That’s pretty impressive.
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