just when i think i have the lead, you blaze right by me!
I'm really trying not to compete. This is just how I write; it's what's most comfortable to me to ride the tide of a story, working at a feverish pace. I never realized how productive in terms of word count I was before NaNo. I had months during AMC's heyday when I wrote at least this much, maybe more.
now, finish by the weekend, and you can write an whole 'nuther NaNo novel just to pass the time... ;-)
Lol! This story is going to be *much* longer than 50K, so if I even finish it by November 30, I'll be surprised. I haven't even begun thinking about what the next project's going to be! (I'm not a person who can handle a dozen-plus WiPs...unlike *someone* I know! ;D)
i've also run across some heinous customer service, but most times it's more friendly than rude.
I would agree with this. Our biggest problems come with the company screws up and we expect them to fix it. For example, one time, my sister bought me a CD for Christmas from Best Buy. Now I got an easy dozen CDs that Christmas from various people, so I didn't start playing the one she gave me until mid-January. I opened it and--lo!--no CD!
So I took it back, wanting an exchange, and was fed some b***s*** line about it not being returned in 30 days and how I--the customer--would need to call the record company and ask them to send me a new one.
Ummm...no.
Most people behind the counters or registers of even ginormous chains are remarkably friendly considering the conditions under/pay for which they work. Especially if one actually deigns to smile at them or ask how they're doing or *gasp* thank them for their help.
and... i *heart* wal-mart. so much better than target (over-priced cheap stuff) and k-mart (they do cheap?).
See, you had to open that can of worms, didn'tya? ;)
My beef with WalMart has nothing to do with the quality of their merchandise or their prices. I do not shop there, so I do not know how their stuff compares to Target or K-Mart. If it was between buying clothes at WalMart and making my own, I'd make my own. They might be burlap sacks, but I will not give my money to WalMart.
My problem with them is that they have no ethics and they are criminals.
They hire illegal workers. They discriminate against women.
Plus, I do not shop at companies that blatantly push their moral agenda onto their customers unless I support said agenda. (For example, I will support environmentally aware companies because I am a strong environmentalist.)
But WalMart will not sell the morning after pill because the pro-life religious nut-jobs who run the company think it's abortion. (And it's not. It's nothing like abortion.) Meanwhile, there are towns where WalMart is the only pharmacy available, and a young girl raped by her boyfriend has no place to obtain EC.
They censor their music because the word "fuck" is really what causes all the problems and crime in America, not the guns that they sell at the counter next to the music department.
Plus, as a small business owner, I have a problem with companies that underpay their employees and rely on overseas sweatshop labor so that they can drive their small business competitors--who pay their employees a living wage with *gasp* benefits and utilize products made in the USA or at least not made by a thirteen-year-old kid making five cents a day--out of business. So that people have no choice to shop there.
Yes, other companies may do this as well, but I don't think it's anywhere near as obviously part of their agenda as it is at WalMart.
I would sooner give my money to a drug dealer in Baltimore City than to WalMart. I think the drug dealer is less a criminal and have better ethics.
And that's why I don't shop at WalMart. *can of worms closed* ;)
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I'm really trying not to compete. This is just how I write; it's what's most comfortable to me to ride the tide of a story, working at a feverish pace. I never realized how productive in terms of word count I was before NaNo. I had months during AMC's heyday when I wrote at least this much, maybe more.
now, finish by the weekend, and you can write an whole 'nuther NaNo novel just to pass the time... ;-)
Lol! This story is going to be *much* longer than 50K, so if I even finish it by November 30, I'll be surprised. I haven't even begun thinking about what the next project's going to be! (I'm not a person who can handle a dozen-plus WiPs...unlike *someone* I know! ;D)
i've also run across some heinous customer service, but most times it's more friendly than rude.
I would agree with this. Our biggest problems come with the company screws up and we expect them to fix it. For example, one time, my sister bought me a CD for Christmas from Best Buy. Now I got an easy dozen CDs that Christmas from various people, so I didn't start playing the one she gave me until mid-January. I opened it and--lo!--no CD!
So I took it back, wanting an exchange, and was fed some b***s*** line about it not being returned in 30 days and how I--the customer--would need to call the record company and ask them to send me a new one.
Ummm...no.
Most people behind the counters or registers of even ginormous chains are remarkably friendly considering the conditions under/pay for which they work. Especially if one actually deigns to smile at them or ask how they're doing or *gasp* thank them for their help.
and... i *heart* wal-mart. so much better than target (over-priced cheap stuff) and k-mart (they do cheap?).
See, you had to open that can of worms, didn'tya? ;)
My beef with WalMart has nothing to do with the quality of their merchandise or their prices. I do not shop there, so I do not know how their stuff compares to Target or K-Mart. If it was between buying clothes at WalMart and making my own, I'd make my own. They might be burlap sacks, but I will not give my money to WalMart.
My problem with them is that they have no ethics and they are criminals.
They hire illegal workers. They discriminate against women.
Plus, I do not shop at companies that blatantly push their moral agenda onto their customers unless I support said agenda. (For example, I will support environmentally aware companies because I am a strong environmentalist.)
But WalMart will not sell the morning after pill because the pro-life religious nut-jobs who run the company think it's abortion. (And it's not. It's nothing like abortion.) Meanwhile, there are towns where WalMart is the only pharmacy available, and a young girl raped by her boyfriend has no place to obtain EC.
They censor their music because the word "fuck" is really what causes all the problems and crime in America, not the guns that they sell at the counter next to the music department.
Plus, as a small business owner, I have a problem with companies that underpay their employees and rely on overseas sweatshop labor so that they can drive their small business competitors--who pay their employees a living wage with *gasp* benefits and utilize products made in the USA or at least not made by a thirteen-year-old kid making five cents a day--out of business. So that people have no choice to shop there.
Yes, other companies may do this as well, but I don't think it's anywhere near as obviously part of their agenda as it is at WalMart.
I would sooner give my money to a drug dealer in Baltimore City than to WalMart. I think the drug dealer is less a criminal and have better ethics.
And that's why I don't shop at WalMart.
*can of worms closed* ;)