A few months ago I developed an interest in a new craft, quilling, and have been happily practicing since. Given where I live and what is available at the nearby craft stores, I’ve done most of my quilling supply shopping online–decent prices, even if the shipping could be cheaper (seriously, people, flat rate priority mail boxes–two days delivery and all you can fit in the box or envelope, what could be better?). Anyway, back to the point.
Like any self respecting online seller, the store keeps sending me emails with sales and promotions and new products, etc. So far, all standard stuff. Until today, that is.
Today I received an email thanking me for my business–and letting me know that the company’s CEO is also an author (historical inspirational novels, if you are curious) and that, if I pay $3 in shipping per book, I can get all of her books for free!
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uh… say what?
(Right now, I’m thinking tacky–very tacky)
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Smart or stupid?
You are a newly hired manager. You spend quite a bit of time every shift complaining that the company is cheap and run by imbeciles, and telling your employees are lazy morons who want to bitch and get paid but not work. Then you go out drinking with them.
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I don’t have words for my reaction, actually.
(Stupid is in there somewhere, but tasteless gets some play too)
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Why?
As a newly single woman in the digital age, I have been pondering online dating sites.
A long while back, when most of them were pretty much in their infancy, I spent some time and money on a couple of them, and one of the few things I remember clearly about the experience is the…well, sameness of the profiles (male and female alike). Everyone loved to walk on the beach, listen to the rain and cuddle on the sofa. All of them exercised regularly and had adventurous/unusual/intriguing hobbies. The few who admitted to reading as a hobby claimed to like the classics or non-fiction only.
Oh, and even the ones for people in their 50s and 60s looked like they were in their 30s.
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(After a while, it got so boring that I changed my profile in at least one of them to say “I read romance and I’m really boring.”)
