Failed business strategy #1
Feb. 3rd, 2004 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaToday and yesterday there has been a white van parked outside work. On it is the name of the company (Grasshoppers), two phone numbers, an email address and the suggestion "Why not give us a try?"
Now, the very obvious answer to that is Because we don't know what the bloody hell it is you do. Unless they supply grasshoppers, of course.
Surely this is such a fundamental thing that no one bright enough to run a business could miss it ?
Now, the very obvious answer to that is Because we don't know what the bloody hell it is you do. Unless they supply grasshoppers, of course.
Surely this is such a fundamental thing that no one bright enough to run a business could miss it ?
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Date: 2004-02-03 02:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-03 03:08 am (UTC)You could go and write that on their van. You'd be doing them a favour. They probably haven't realised.
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Date: 2004-02-03 03:15 am (UTC)Grasshoppers
(0118) 944 2000
Park Ho,17, Headley Rd
Woodley
Reading
RG5 4JB
And then Google say:
Reading: Painters & Decorators
Grasshoppers: Woodley
TEL: 0118 944 2000 FAX: 0118 944 2277
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Date: 2004-02-03 03:19 am (UTC)...with a phone number and the company's name. The best at what ? They didn't say.
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Date: 2004-02-03 03:27 am (UTC)Just in general, maybe.
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Date: 2004-02-03 03:32 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-03 03:33 am (UTC)Or not. I must admit to being confused at this point.
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Date: 2004-02-03 08:34 am (UTC)On the way to work last week I saw a new advert for Domestos.
It said in big "gooey" letters; No Bleach Lasts Longer.
Under which I was exquisitely tempted to write with a big marker
"OK, I'll use no bleach instead, then!"
People get paid for this, you know!!!
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Date: 2004-02-03 11:44 am (UTC)"Ahhhh.....glasshopper"
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Date: 2004-02-04 01:38 am (UTC)Similarly, "You can't eat a single Mingle". Thanks for the warning - I won't bother trying.
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Date: 2004-02-04 04:10 am (UTC)Of course, if they believe you can't eat a single mingle, why do they wrap them individually?
Like a pringle, a single mingle is simply to small to be considered as a unit of snack. So consuming a viable quantity results in much littering of wrappers, making the consumption levels more visible than one might wish.
On the other hand, one can eat a handful of the pesky little blighters.
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Date: 2004-02-04 07:01 am (UTC)Well, that's what they want you to think. They just reckoned without my ability to deliberately misinterpret their dodgy prose.
why do they wrap them individually?
Maybe because 1 is the g.c.d of the various numbers of mingles you might want to eat.