It has become increasingly common in recent years for manufacturers and advertisers to try and piggy-back on to environmental awareness, and promote their products as natural, but when I saw this display in Bunnings this week my brain nearly melted trying to deal with the paradox!
Monthly Archives: December 2013
A week to do what?
I think I know why NRMA insurance aren’t answering phone calls in a timely manner, they’ve assigned all available resources to direct marketing. In the last month I’ve received multiple physical mail, phone calls, and e-mails to multiple addresses pushing their stuff. While unsubscribing from an e-mail list I noticed this …
Say what! Up to 5 working days (= 1 week) to unsubscribe from an e-mail list! What century are they working in?
The start of a new era
Today was my first day in our new offices at Wickham. The ride in to work was surprisingly quick. Despite the fact that it is 3km longer than my former ride to work, it only took a few minutes longer, because I wasn’t held up waiting at traffic lights as much as before. Shower time was somewhat invigorating – due to power issues we don’t have hot water yet, and it looks like it will be cold showers for the rest of the week. I must say too that whoever designed the shower rooms obviously has never used showers in a workplace environment, as there were too few places to hang clothes and no room to put a seat so that you can sit down to put your shoes on.