(mostly) short takes

[cellio]

I didn't know that UPSs had overload warnings. Perhaps my office-mate and I should not be trying to share a single one for both computers. (The office was recently reconfigured for three people rather than two, but the infrastructure hasn't caught up. "You are in a maze of twisty windy extension cords, all different.")

I recently saw an ad for "all meat" hotdogs. Um. I'm not sure I want to carefully consider the alternatives.

Hint to grocery-store managers: When your cashier tells me that she cannot simply cancel the item that rang up for the wrong price, and that I must stand in a customer-service line that's at least 15 minutes long to get my money back, you do not motivate me to pick up anything extra on future trips.

The Bush campaign is rallying church volunteers to work their congregations -- which is fine at the level of "chat up your friends", but now we have this: "A copy of the guide obtained by Reuters directs religious volunteers to send church directories to state campaign committees [...]". In at least some organizations, distributing the membership list to outsiders is a violation of the membership agreement, to say nothing of the ethical implications. Anyone who does this deserves to get smacked down by other members of his congregation -- and probably shouldn't be surprised by some of the mailing lists he ends up on as a result. And I'd have the same objection if the other side did it; it's just that either they aren't or they're being more subtle and I haven't noticed.

Comments

[ealdthryth.livejournal.com]

We had someone use our membership list for an appeal for poll workers for the Democratic primary. People got really steamed and now there is a policy about using the membership list.

[aliza250.livejournal.com]

Hint to grocery-store managers: When your cashier tells me that she cannot simply cancel the item that rang up for the wrong price, and that I must stand in a customer-service line that's at least 15 minutes long to get my money back, you do not motivate me to pick up anything extra on future trips.

That would be my personal cue to walk out of the store, leaving my full grocery cart behind in the checkout line.

[dagonell.livejournal.com]

That's punishing the cashier. It's management that sets the policy.
-- Dagonell, who's worked in *three* different grocery stores.

[cellio]

If I'm convinced that the cashier is being beligerent rather than hobbled, that's probably what I'd do. (I'd also take into account the size of the line behind me.) In this case, I couldn't tell.