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The Assertive Blog: February 2006
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Standing up to the man since 2005. Friday, February 24, 2006. Ok, I hate them. Telecom are just plain old-fashioned wrought iron mongrels. The thing is, we had a dial up account (I know! And will continually charge you whilst investing the money in other evil multi national corporations, perhaps in order to be able to plan new and cunning ways to screw the good people of New Zealand. Happiness for a few months. Posted by Blair @ 5:36 PM. Links to this post. Saturday, February 18, 2006. Links to this post.
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The Assertive Blog: November 2005
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Standing up to the man since 2005. Wednesday, November 23, 2005. Your Store (yeah right). The advertisements for Farmers [A New Zealand Department store] on television are full of beautiful slim white families laughing and eating fruit on lilos in the sun. None of the attractive and socially adjusted, politically correct teenagers in the ads are wearing shirts with X-rated or offensive slogans on them. This is part of a letter that I wrote to Farmers recently:. To Whom it may concern,. Just wait for part...
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The Assertive Blog: December 2005
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Standing up to the man since 2005. Friday, December 16, 2005. I have just spend a few minutes explaining the rules about bananas to my wife. I feel that transparency is vital and so I will share the rules with you now. There are only two rules:. Boiled or bar-b-q'd. They may never be made into cakes, bread of muffins (what's wrong with people? 21 Where rules in 1.0 are strictly adhered to, bananas may be sliced and put into a fresh fruit salad and served with yogurt or ice cream. The fruit salad ...Thank...
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The Assertive Blog: "the messages on the t-shirts are supposed to be fun"
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Standing up to the man since 2005. Friday, December 02, 2005. The messages on the t-shirts are supposed to be fun". I received this email in response from the buying manager of Men's Brands at Farmers:. Thankyou for your feedback regarding the slogan T-Shirts in our Substation Youth Menswear area. I apologise for not responding to you sooner, but I have been overseas on business and only returned today. Going forward, we will continue to range these Slogan T-Shirts, however taking yours, and others feedb...
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The Assertive Blog: The (not very) humble beginning
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Standing up to the man since 2005. Sunday, November 13, 2005. The (not very) humble beginning. Today I received an email from a friend containing this attachment. It made me smile and rekindled, deep within me, a love of the assertive. Let the corporate giants lie awake, sleepless and restless in fear and guilt from what they have subjected us to. knowing, fearing the letters that we will write demanding justice (or maybe just some free stuff). Oh yes, I shall write! Posted by Blair @ 6:58 AM. And while ...
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The Assertive Blog: January 2006
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Standing up to the man since 2005. Thursday, January 26, 2006. Top of the Pods dot com. Rob and Jon from top of the pods. Did a show a while back about how to deal with poor customer service. You can download. The show as an Mp3 It wasn't the funniest show that they have done, but it was actually quite informative - particularly if you live in the UK. Some useful tips there for the young player - and some that I hadn't thought of! Posted by Blair @ 9:02 AM. Links to this post. Monday, January 16, 2006.
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The Assertive Blog: bug me not
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Standing up to the man since 2005. Saturday, February 18, 2006. You know sometimes you need to find out some info from a web site or download a free trial of something. You go though the process and then after you've filled out almost everything, stage 7 of the process includes entering you email address? Or worse than that, they try to make you set up an account for something that you just don't need an account for? Simply get a log in from bugmenot; snatch the booty and then head for the sunset.
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The Assertive Blog: Telecom New Zealand
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Standing up to the man since 2005. Monday, November 14, 2005. Right then, let's start with the big boys. I am tired of Telecom. I am tired of them putting me on hold; I am tired of them responding to my emails in an impersonal manner - leaving me to believe that the responses perhaps may have been written by either a computer, a 7 year old (much cheaper than paying an adult) or a monkey (cheaper still! So For all of you in the same boat as me:. Telecom New Zealand Limited. Posted by Blair @ 5:56 PM.
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The Assertive Blog: April 2006
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Standing up to the man since 2005. Wednesday, April 12, 2006. I recently had a short assertive battle with an unnamed organic food manufacturer from Mt Wellington in Auckland. and won. A new jar of Almond butter (louise's new thing) is currently winding its way to my letterbox after I complained that the product was poorly labeled. I am a leaf on the wind; watch how I soar! I also found, this week, a site. That has some practical steps about how to complain and get results. Nice. Links to this post.
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