I completely missed the fact that The huwr Factor is now 1 year active, as of 21 March 2005. I was too busy worrying about my friggin' Tax File Number to notice.
So happy birthday.
And Happy Birthday to my friend Andrew Wade, I hope that he still reads this.
Actually, if you do still read this, anybody, that is, leave a note in the comments as to what you would like to see in The huwr Factor in the coming year. Less of this? More of that?
Definitely more of that.
Posted by: Mac-arena the Bored Zo at March 23, 2006 11:29 AMI dunno, I'd prefer more of this and the other, and a different color of that.
Posted by: Catfish_Man at March 23, 2006 06:53 PMThanks Huw. You remembered my birthday.
And I do still read this and am entertained – especially the stories about random things you have done. Though I have to say that I have not seen your blog in a while. We've been waiting for Transact.
Believe it or not, four men turned up to our house to install it. They went to connect one end of the wire to the pole and realised that none of them had brought a ladder. Wow.
Out-sourcing must surely be the way of the future. Don’t let those bubbling incompetent bureaucrats near the customers, pay another company to do that and blame them when anything goes wrong.
Phone call:
“Hello, the contractors came to install transact today and were unable to do so, could you tell us when they will be able to come back and finish the job.”
“Yes certainly sir, let me check. Ah, yes they should be able to come back in 3 weeks – say Tuesday – is that ok”.
“Not really, we were expecting to be away. The fact that they forgot a ladder is a bit frustrating. Do you think that you could get them back this week?”
“I afraid not”
“Could I speak to your manager?”
“No, I am the manager, Transact out-sources its book work to us…”
Business isn’t necessarily better than government at getting the job done. They are simply better at promoting themselves.
RE BETTR BLOG: MRE CAPTL LTTRS, LSS VOWLS.
AND HPPY BRTHDAY TO WADE. I ONLY RMEMBRED ONE DY LTE. OR MYBE IT WAS HUW WHO RMEMBRED AND TLD ME. BUT I DD ASK! I JST DDNT RMEMBR THE EXCT DTE.
HPPY BRTHDAY TO THE HUWR FCTOR ALSO.
By the way don't increase capital letters and reduce vowels. Not only is it annoying to read but it takes about 5 times as long to type trying to decide which letters to leave out.
Posted by: at March 27, 2006 04:41 AMTo the best of my knowledge, previous post was by Heléna.
Posted by: huwr at March 27, 2006 11:56 AM