Teetering on my Soapbox.....
I had a situation at work happen that I just have to share... As I am in administration a lot of budgetary issues fall on my shoulders... One is what publications we subscribe to keep employees informed and educated on issues that effect their jobs. Well like everywhere that budget has been reduced so I have to be selective...
I receive a call from a gentlemen with a very heavy foreign accent wanting to know why I have not renewed this particular publication... So this is how it went.....
PIA Salesman: This is Peter from BLANK, BLANK....
Willow: What can I do for you today?
PIA Salesman: I am calling to see why you have not renewed your BLANK BLANK...
Willow: Well, I have not decided if I want to renew your publication, my budget is limited.
PIA Salesman: So this is a budget issue... What can you afford?
Willow: I can afford, fifty bucks, can you give it to me for fifty bucks....
PIA Salesman: NO, I am sorry, we could not possibly give it to you for that, would you....
Willow: (I cut him off here) That is what I can afford, I don't have time to dicker with you today, have a nice day... (and I hang up)
My intercom rings, it is the receptionist, she is laughing.... "Did you intentionally hang up on Peter? because he is back on line 3, do you want me to get rid of him?
Willow: NOPE.....
PICKS up line 3.......
Willow: Peter, let me ask you a question... What country are you calling me from?????
PIA Salesman: I am calling from India.....
Willow: Well, Peter let me tell you something, if you were calling from some where inside America and an American was doing your job I could afford to buy your publication.... But since you are calling me from India and you are doing an Americans job, I cant afford your publication, Good Day, click...............
So, this message is for Corporate America...... You want me to spend my hard earned money, I will, but you have to quit giving American jobs to the people of India and Mexico....Cut your big ass bonuses and give them to the employees who earned you those big ass bonuses, NO ONE can tell me you earned them all on your own... It was the little people, pushing the buttons, putting the parts together, moving the merchandise, spending their time at WORK, not on the GOLF course, that earned the big ass bonuses..... Stick that in your corporate pipe and smoke it.......
The name of this company is : The Coding Institute, P.O. Box 933729, Atlanta, GA 31193-3729
email: service@medville.com
I will be forwarding this message on to the big guys at this publication.... Enough is Enough... You want America back... well then fight for it... the CEO's in this country only respond to one thing a PISSED OFF BOARD OF DIRECTORS, that see their stocks falling.... I've got my ax ready... who's next on the chopping block....
