Category: Society
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The Bitterest Pill…
Running a little low on painkillers the other day for the family medicine cupboard, I thought I’d procure a few packets of ibuprofen and paracetamol. As you can buy a packet of 16 for about £0.35, a couple of quid would see the Frances household ok. So, a visit to the shop and 6 packets…
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The Real Hypocrisy
In a week (or was that a decade?) when the UK Electorate asked themselves whether Boris Johnson could be trusted, UK politicians are under the most intense scrutiny. It is a General Election campaign after all. But hang on a minute. Surely the supreme hypocrisy in politics is for a politician to profess to be…
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Service, Please…
Black Friday will shortly have been and gone, so brace yourself for more sales analysis and the inevitable laments about the demise of in-store retail. With a foam finger-sized finger being decisively directed at online. Er, no. Online is just another channel. Now I am no fan of contact centres, but they made the transition…
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A Dogma is for Life…
Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat. And there’re only one goose in the charlatan realm, and that’s the charlatan goose. But it’s the one time of year when charitable sentiment is front and centre, and all the reprobates have to don their metaphorical Santa suits and indulge in a little goodwill to…
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Levelling on Service
Back in the not so glorious days of the outsourced contact centre boom, we all had one objective in our crosshairs. And that was hitting the SLA. There was largely one channel (telephone) and an essential part of service meant that you picked up the call and did so quickly. Failing to pick up would…
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Imposturing
Imposter syndrome. Articles on it are seeping out of every social media orifice. impostor syndrome or im·post·er syn·drome [ im-pos-ter sin-drohm] noun anxiety or self-doubt that results from persistently undervaluing one’s competence and active role in achieving success, while falsely attributing one’s accomplishments to luck or other external forces. (Source: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/impostor-syndrome) According to psychologists, sufferers are…
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Disruption Rebellion
I suppose it was inevitable that I would encounter more sales folk, the moment I started to dabble with online products. Every leech under the sun trying to sell me services to get more hits, to get my sites out there. Of course, none of them offer any model reflecting payment by results. Clearly, they…
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The Pyramidas Touch
Just when you think the world of recruitment cannot stoop any lower, some determined hacks find a way to thwart your optimism. In Freaking Hired!, I mentioned the commercial methodology of aggregators. The job boards that use bots to scrape job ads to post on their own sites, with subsequent applications proving their concept, which…
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