Moron Enterprises

Michelle was kind enough to loan me her car while my car is getting the windshield replaced. The people that come repair windshields don’t go far enough to come to my work, so we swapped cars. Unfortunately, she left me with her key chain with all her toys attached.

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Customer: How much are those parts?
Me: They’re not too much, about $500.00 or so.
Customer: Do I have an open account with you?
Me: No, it doesn’t look like your account was ever opened.
Customer: What’s the hold up on that? Why isn’t it opened?
Me: Probably because you have no money and don’t pay on time.

So I didn’t say that last thing, but give me a break. Why do people expect everyone to give them an open account? If you don’t have an established line of credit, no one is going to front money or product to you. If you can’t buy it from us, go buy it from someone else that is foolish enough to give you terms better than payment on delivery.

We’ve all seen the news about the protests against a certain country hosting the Olympics this year. What’s all the commotion about? Simply put, the host country’s government violates human rights. That’s not a secret, but is it enough to warrant the kind of protests that are happening? Absolutely not.

The Olympics is a tradition created long ago for countries to come together and compete in athletic venues. It has absolutely nothing to do with the government or politics of a nation. Back when the Olympics were created, countries would stop wars to come and compete in the games. This is how it was intended and the way it should be.

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My brother works for a company that writes Internet-based software for non profit organizations. The company is a for profit company, but I am always fascinated by the fact that their market consists of solely non profit organizations that want to be online.

A lot of people make excuses for not giving, and I’ve used the same excuses at times. Giving is nice, but when you have to go out of your way to give, it gets pushed to the back burner. The Internet is a great tool to raise awareness for causes that need funding and to help facilitate that funding.

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I have an addiction, and I’m sure many of you share this same addiction. The Internet is far too entertaining. With YouTube, Digg, Facebook, and many other sites, it’s hard to get stuff done. There are days I hardly get anything done. Those days I call weekdays. I kid. It doesn’t take much for us to admit that we all waste time at work when there is Internet available. As long as you’re being honest with yourself (and use Firefox), you can also fix your problem.

For those of you that don’t have access to enable content filtering on your firewall, you can install Leechblock, a Firefox extension which allows you to create a list of websites and set time restraints on when you can access them. You can even lock yourself out of the options during the time restraints. This still doesn’t stop you from disabling the extension or opening Safari, but it’s a start. If everyone installed this and used it during work, we could probably pull our economy out of the hole.

I spend a lot of time on the phone with customers, and I’ve learned a few things about sales.

Sound confident and people don’t question what you’re telling them. You can sell more stuff that way. There is no need to lie to people in doing this. You are presenting them with products they can use at a price they are willing to pay. You are just convincing them to do it now, rather than later.

The other thing I realized is that people are not comfortable with silence and talk way more than they should, giving out needless information. Sometimes this lets me know exactly where I need to price myself, but most of the time it’s people just rambling on with additional information after they’ve told me everything I need to know. From my own experience I know they are just to try to elicit a confirmation of what they’re already saying, because they’re not positive about what they’re doing.

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The Nintendo Wii has been selling like hotcakes for a long time now. The reason is simple. You can smack your friends in the head with a controller, because it’s that intense. They even make special adapters so you can feel like you’re doing real life things.

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This weekend was Carissa’s birthday celebration. It started out at Musha. I have been to this place far too many times, but it never disappoints. It’s always as exciting every time they turn off the restaurant lights and the waiters sing happy birthday.

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The last full day of our trip, Michelle and I split off from my parents and their friends to do some of the things our friends told us to do that were not a normal list of tourist attractions. It was probably our most adventurous day, not being able to rely on my parents’ friends to speak and translate for us.

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