Some say junk
Author: Neil Robinson
Packing Chaos!
Packing proceeds before the big removal of stuff on the 20th.
Former colleagues in their workplaces
And so all of my colleagues from Umhlaba make an appearance on Waffle Group. Their physical condition on the last day of work immortalised forever on the internetwebtubes.
It was great working with you guys. May you never again have to deal with Social and Labour Plans.
Colleagues: Preesha
Hullets Helps Tourists by Stating the Obvious
World Cup is happening in South Africa, and the Hullets sugar-manufacturing people think tourists are horribly ignorant.
They use to put trite quotations on the back of their sugar sachets, along the lines of “You miss 100% of the slit wrists you don’t cut” or something. Now it’s mundane facts about South Africa, as illustrated.
Packing: Poetry Rediscovered
Packing presents an opportunity to clean out stuff. While cleaning out stuff, one often rediscovers hidden treasures — like a certain note book of mine.
I now present a small selection of the oddness I wrote there, probably around 2001/2002
Blue Overall:
Blue overall
That’s what I have
It’s got slime and dust and crap
On it
But
At least I know it’s mine
Water Cooler
It glooged. Then it glooged again. It was the way of the water cooler.
Whenever someone took water from it, it would gurgle an gloog in n enthusiastic and cheerful manner
One might say that
The Fan
The extraction fan hummed
But ‘hummed’ isn’t quite right
‘Hummed’ is cheerful, happy
Carefree bliss
The fan wasn’t happy
The fan wasn’t carefree
There was no cheer nor bliss
But still, the fan hummed
There are some weird sketches too. I may scan them and present them for your viewing enjoyment.
Festive Vibe on Jozi Streets before World Cup Kickoff
Pity the noise doesn’t come across in the pictures, because it was significant
Cell C vs Tracker. And you thought they weren’t in competition
I’m leaving the country and I have contracts to cancel. Contracts like those for cellular telephone and vehicle-tracking services.
The difference is that Tracker actually gives a shit about their customers (even those who are shortly to cease being their customers) while Cell C doesn’t.
For both Tracker and Cell C, I still have about 11 months remaining on my contract. Tracker magnanimously gave me a 50% discount on the settlement amount, while Cell C want to charge me a R1,000 penalty fee.
Tracker cares what I think about their brand, even if I’m not a customer of theirs. This could be because I might have cause to give a vehicle-tracking service a recommendation. “Hey, Jimmy. Tracker provided pretty good service. Why not use them?”
Even if I don’t give a recommendation, they certainly don’t want me to have anything bad to say about the company or the brand. I mean, pissed off customers typically put a lot more effort into complaining than happy customers put into complementing. Unhappy customers might bad-mouth the brand. Complain to friends. Blog about the poor service and unreasonable contract cancellation terms. Screw around with the logo. Perhaps they might tweet about it, or post it on Facebook. It could go viral. It could become the next internet meme. Tracker wouldn’t want to even risk such a thing, no matter how small the chances of it happening are, while Cell C have made it all the way to the “post it on Facebook” phase.
High Protein Waffles (via )
Saw this on Freshly Pressed and I just couldn’t resist. There hasn’t been actual waffle here for quite some time.
Packing Begins
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