A tale of good customer service.

Every so often something happens to you that restores your faith in human nature.

Last week, I ordered a Keane calendar from Amazon Marketplace. It was only £1.99 (exc. p&p, which wasn't too much) so I thought, "why not?" I needed one up in my room anyway. When the calendar finally arrived the other day, I opened it, only to find that they had accidentally sent me a Razorlight calendar. Now, I like Razorlight as much as the next person, but I don't like them enough to have them counting down the months of the year. I emailed the seller through Amazon, explaining the situation and telling them I was prepared to return the one they'd sent me in exchange for my original item or a refund if they no longer had any.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, I received a reply from the sellers, who said that they were going to send me the Keane one and that I could keep the Razorlight one as a gift. Therefore, I don't need to return it and I can keep the other one at no extra charge! Now that is good service. I am of course, going to e mail them to thank them. The only thing now, is that I have got two calendars. I'll sort something out.

Something to smile about

Apparently, yesterday was the most depressing day of the year. Aren't all Mondays depressing? What's even stranger than that was the news on teletext yesterday that we Brits are a nation of optimists.

Yes, you read me right- optimists.

Given the amount of negative stories we hear day in, day out, not to mention the amount of people who regularly moan about their lives, how this country is going down the pan and how we are all doomed thanks to terrorism/global warming/space objects hurtling towards the earth (delete as applicable), it's amazing how any of us are able to look on the bright side of life at all. In fact, it's amazing how any of us manage to get out of the house in the morning.

Snow Joke

Today, the weatherman said there would be snow in certain parts of the country, including Manchester. This city could expect to be covered in a blanket of thick snow by three o'clock in the afternoon, they said.

What they didn't mention was that prior to any snow falling on the ground it would be pissing down with rain for the best part of the daytime. We did get snow this evening, but I doubt that it has stuck, given how wet it was earlier. Once again, the weather forecasters build our hopes up, only for them to be knocked down. Maybe weather forecasts should be banned from television-or at the very least, banned from ITV as they hardly ever get it right, do they? Sometimes it would be far better to either look out the window or wander outside. You'd get a far more accurate result that way.

Ever felt like people are taking advantage of you?

As each working day passes, I feel more and more like I'm being taken for granted by my employers. I was originally only meant to be doing three days at the other branch until Christmas; but I'm still there and likely to be there next month the way things are going. If that wasn't enough, they made me go on Wednesday morning after arriving at my regular place of work as one of my colleagues at the other shop was off sick. So I spent morning at the other branch and the afternoon at my own.

It really is getting ridiculous. I feel knackered, unsettled and stressed out. The job's not fun anymore- not that I found it enjoyable in the first place. My parents say don't walk until you've found another job, but if it's getting you down that much, why carry on with it a minute longer? I can see myself saying something to work at some point, and they're not going to like it one bit.

Will You Keep Yours?

You Will Keep Your New Year's Resolution

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If you say so!

The first blog entry of 2007!

So 2007 has begun. Hope you all had a good Christmas and that you didn’t get too pissed at New Year. I spent my New Year’s Eve recovering from a stomach virus that saw me with my head over a bucket the best part of Friday. A colleague of mine told me today that I looked skinnier than when she last saw me the other week. I told her that it must be all that spewing I did that has made me look thinner- I must’ve lost half a stone at least. I’m getting back into my normal eating habits gradually, but there are still plenty of things that I still won’t touch with a bargepole right now.

I’m still thinking about my New Year’s Resolutions- well, ones that I should make other than the ones that I made last year that I didn’t manage to keep (see the January 2006 archive for my entry about that). I suppose one that I should make is to try and update this more often. I know I’ve not been doing it much lately for one reason or another. If I‘m honest, I don’t know if I can really be arsed making a load of promises to myself. Maybe I’ll just not bother this year. Resolve not to make any New Year’s Resolutions. I think that I could keep that for more than a day.