It is the current business model for many large organizations to contract customer support to a large body of specialized low-skill and low-pay employees.  This model means that companies can provide a broad body of customer service, answering the many thousands or millions of phone calls they receive each day, for a very low price.  The problem is ( Read more... )

OMG so much tired in one body.

I arrived safely at datacat's place around 5:00 p.m. last night with minimal traffic problems, just a very agitated spine.  The first thing I did after giving her a hug was to lay on the couch and settle for a while before cooking myself a small dinner.  It wasn't quite enough this time, and neither of us could resist the temptation of sushi delivery, so ( Read more... )

cleron, two of his friends, and I will be heading to California tomorrow afternoon and evening, and the first thing I plan to do after registration Friday morning is visit the BlizzCon Store.  I have an empty credit card and am accepting purchase requests to be repaid after the convention.  (Visit the link to see the available merchandise.)

Sunday quickly became another late start that was delayed even further by datacat and I both forgetting our badges. I sent a text to sixteenbynine so he knew I'd be late, and waited for datacat to make a mad dash to the apartment and back to the train station, since my Metro card didn't have enough trips for me to leave and come back. We arrived at the convention around 1:00 ( Read more... )

Got back to NJ from NYC today after a fun weekend with datacat, sixteenbynine, and a few hundred people at the New York Anime Festival. The trip began with me heading to NJ to spend a couple days with the family before heading to NY, and I ran out of gas on the way there. The gas gauge on my car is broken and more expensive than worthwhile to fix, but my car ran out ( Read more... )

Thursday was a day of preparation, running through the schedules and packing to leave.  The local Metro station has free parking, so I took the train from one end of the line almost to the other and spent some time with rejoicingapathy and tomashko while I waited for some friends to arrive a couple hours later.  Much as we had the previous year, we went for some sushi ( Read more... )

So I just got back a little while ago from picking up my badge and stuff for Otakon. The line moved pretty quickly, though I was there a little after 8:00, and most people probably got there earlier. I had to pay $10 for about 20 minutes of parking, but aa well.. the suckier part was getting turned around after getting out of the parking garage, ( Read more... )

Got back from Pennsylvania at about 9:30 last night. It was a good weekend, I had a lot of fun and relaxation. My back isn't hurting quite as much as it was last week, so I'm guessing it really was mostly issues with stress and bad posture (and maybe some dietary issues too, not sure ( Read more... )