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February 13th

Should You Blog When You're Angry (And Tired)?

Shane Is GrumblyYou are bloody well correct on all counts with that!  I am utterly choked, cheesed off, and I may even be a little bit grumpy!  Is it just me or can I never have a Friday that just works.  Let me set this up for you.

  1. I was planning on taking a trip to Victoria to visit a friend’s new baby.
  2. I was supposed to have new phones installed.
  3. I was supposed to feel good about said new phones.
Did I feel good about said new phones?  Of course!  But what happened?  Nothing that didn’t require me to fix it.  What do I mean?  Well, when you invite a company into your office and you determine that they have services you require – wouldn’t you expect them to come in an instantly know what it was they needed to do?

Of course you would.  They are the company providing you the service!

Sadly, this didn’t happen in my case.  I was left to do a whole bunch of things myself in order to make what they were supposed to do happen.  I shouldn’t rant to brashly against the nice man you came but you would think the people assigning him work would make it all worth while.  I remember that a number of years ago, the television man refused to come to the house in order to fix something that they broke which made it impossible to watch television.  I a had to threaten to smash the television box off the house before they agreed to come.  Should consumers have to resort to such threats? Unfortunately, it has become far too common in this day and age. I will end my rant now and go to bed and combat the issues of a new day tomorrow.  Until then, bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow will be a better day.
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Shane Birley is a blogger, huge geeky nerd, web developer, poet, and creative writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is a partner at Left Right Minds, a web development, arts management, business blogging and on line marketing company.

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