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Why is it so Difficult to Give the Customer What They Paid For?

I just got off the phone with a customer service agent from American Airlines and even though I finally got what I asked for in the end I am quite upset. Here’s the deal:

I was flying from Seattle to Orlando by way of Dallas on May 30 for work and when I got to the airport to check in they said my flight out of Dallas had been canceled. Ok — that’s fine — so put me on another flight. He says the best he can do for me is to get me on a United flight that gets me in at around an hour later than my original flight. They have an American flight but it is leaving several hours later so the United looks the best. I only had one question, “Can you put the miles from the flight on my American mileage account?”. “Yes, I can transfer that over sir.” was the reply I received. I then walked down to the United counter where the attendant didn’t know about the American miles but he did tell me to hold on to my boarding pass and then call American later with the information. Continue reading “Why is it so Difficult to Give the Customer What They Paid For?” »

Check Out Opensourcecommunity.org!

They’ve been steadily pumping out great informative material over at opensourcecommunity.org since they started in February(?). Sometimes I don’t make it over there for a couple days and when I do I am sure to find some quality, new, and interesting information.

A lot of great minds over there with insights that I respect. If you have something to share, feel free to join up and blog — the only rule is to be friendly and respectful.

Paintball last Saturday

For the first time last Saturday I went paintballing with some friends. I had never gone before and in reality when I was younger I was scarred of getting hit. My friend Jemaal had planned it for the birthday party of his niece and we were supposed to have an entire field just for ourselves. Unfortunately, there was a death in her side of the family so the party was canceled. Jemaal was still available to go so he, my friend Brandon and myself were the small group of friends that showed up.

Jemaal has been going for a little while so he has his own gun (marker, in paintball speak) and gear. For Brandon and I, it was our first time so we used the rental gear. You get a mask with goggles and free refills on air all day. You have to buy the paint at the field so that people can’t bring unsafe paint in. Another safety feature is that every marker has to be chronoed-in which means they check the speed in FPS. I believe it has to be around 270 FPS to be safe. Once all that is done and they give the safety speech, we split into teams with the other people that day and then head on in to the field! Continue reading “Paintball last Saturday” »

Languages at Work

I just decided to count how many languages we have here at work. No, not computer languages but spoken languages that people here can speak besides english. So far there are at least one person who speaks fluently the following languages:

  • Chinese
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Indonesian
  • German
  • Romanian (not 100% sure on this one at the moment)

And we have some limited competence in the following two:

  • Spanish
  • French

I was pretty impressed! This is just in my group at work which probably consists of 40-50 people. I’m just one of the ones who can speak a little Spanish. If we ever do any international shows I think we might have a good chance of having one person that can get around. 🙂

Interesting Video

Just found this one interesting.

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