Sc@-tt3r-ed Thoughts

I know I know, this is not a techy blog, but I had to share this!!

I walked into Subway today to grab some lunch, so I ordered a combo of a 1’ Spicy Italian sandwich. As I was at the register, and after she rang me, I remember that I had a discount card for subway.

You probably can’t see what this says, ( you can blame the crappy iPhone camera ), but it says Buy One 6” Sub & a Med Drink and Get One 6” Sub FREE.

Well, here’s what I bought:

As I gave the lady the card to apply the discount, she fumbled, and goes, oh, you can’t use this. you need to purchase them separately, so I said, well, how about you just bill them separately, and apply the discount? She says, (literally), “but sir, you need to purchase a 6 inch and a drink to get the discount, maybe next time”.

I don’t know about you, but this picture, sure does look like there are 2 6” subs, a drink, and a bag of chips. I even exceeded the requirement for getting the discount. Alas for me, I decided to run into a lazy ass employee who doesn’t want to help a customer.

Give me the discount sister, it’s not like it’s coming out of your pocket!!!

Anyway, I decided that I’m not in the mood to start an argument, and paid the $7 for the combo, but at least I got a kick out of it by bashing lazy people, worth my potentially saved $3

I felt compelled to create this post on my blog due a recent experience I had with Mimosa Systems: An email-archiving solution that I had the misfortune of getting involved with for my school district.

Before I continue with this account, let me qualify myself, as to not risk the possibility of losing your attention, under the pretext of being “just another disgruntled customer”.

I am an IT professional for 12 years now, and have been specifically involved in system administration, engineering, architecture and design, for most of that period. I have implemented quite a few robust products and infrastructures: i.e: Exchange 2000, 2003, migration from Active Directory to 2000 to 2003, full implementation of VMWare vSphere  4.0, VMWare View 3.5 and 4.0, multiple SANs, Digital Imaging solutions (Viatron), Desktop Management solutions (LANDesk) to name a few. I have done most of those, either on my own, or with the assistance of an implementation company, or working directly with a manufacturer. All this to say that I have had enough experience to know the difference between a professional service, well designed product, efficient implementation, and the polar opposite of the former.

The reason I felt the need to write this review is because I (my school district) has been robbed close to a $100,000 from  Mimosa Systems, with not so much as an apology, ok, not a sincere one at least.

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