WinXP Manager 6.0.7 (Portable)

The complete solution to optimize, tweak, clean up Windows XP. WinXP Manager is a tool for setting, optimizing, diagnosing and tweaking Windows XP. It bundles more than 30 different utilities in one and help your system faster and more stable, secure and personal! WinXP Manager helps you optimize, tweak, and clean up Windows XP. It will increase your system speed, improve system security, and meet all of your expectations
You can tweak memory and CPU settings, customize IE settings, find and remove junk files, check and repair your registry, control startup programs, optimize your connection speed, validate your Favorites and much more. It also includes an Auto-Optimization option, that allows less experienced users to easily optimize certain settings, using a wizard. The interface is easy to use and all available options are categorized into sections. Includes basic documentation and an annoying nag screen that pops up every few minutes. It’s compatible with Windows XP SP3 entirely!

Features and Benefits of WinXP Manager:

Information
Get detailed system and all hardware information on your system; helps you to find out the missing Registration codes of Microsoft product; show all detailed information of running processes and threads on your machine; WinXP Manager offers optimization Wizard feature for the user without having any advanced knowledge.

Optimizer
Tweak your system to improve windows startup and shutdown speed; monitor and free your Physical Memory; tweak your hardware to increase system speed and performance; disable some unnecessary services which start with windows; repairs Internet Explorer and certain other System Components to restore these functions.

Cleaner
Find out which files or folders engross your disk space and shown with chart; Find and clean junk, unnecessary wallpaper and screen saver files to increase Hard Disk space; Duplicate Files Finder can scan your computer for files with the same size, name and modification time; Registry Cleaner can easily checks your registry and repair incorrectly linked registry entries, automatically remove invalid entries; Registry Defrag rebuilds and re-indexs your registry to reduce application response time and registry access time; smart uninstaller can uninstall and logoff installed programs neatly.

Customization
Control what is started on Windows startup; edit context menus of mouse Right-Clicking; customize system desktop, menus, toolbar and notifications settings, change Windows logon background; change system icons; custom OEM information; automatically change your desktop wallpaper on background.

Security
You can improve desktop, menus, control panel, windows logon securities, and enable numerous hidden performance options of system, disable system updates and error reports; hide and restrict to access drives, specify which applications are not allowed to be executed on your computer; encrypt/decrypt and shred files, camouflage folder to hide its content from Windows explorer, change the location of system folders; Privacy Protector can maintain your personal privacy by eliminating the tracks that you leave behind; create lots of randomization password once.

Network
Optimize your Internet connection speed, manage all shares items, search for and find out opened ports on your system; Tweak your Internet Explorer easily; backup all data in Outlook Express; automatically check the invalid URLs in your favorites and parse domain name; Message Sender can easily send messages to others.

Misc. Utilities
Show the collection of Windows utilities; control your computer when you’re not at home; apply XP visual style to any Windows applications; appoint logging on time of any account users.

WinXP Manager 6.0.7 Released!
? IE Manager updated to v4.9, add the auto dial function for IE.
? Add the function to restore system.
? System Information updated to v2.1, you can view the Startup and Shutdown date.

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Today I stumbled upon an email marketing platform called MailChimp, which allows users to send up to 3,000 emails per month to up to 500 contacts for free.  Forever.  This is just perfect for a smaller organisation with a limited communications budget.  

So why would you bother using an email marketing campaign manager rather than just sending a bog standard email from outlook, hotmail, yahoo etc?  

Here’s why:

It’s pretty
You can create attractive HTML emails (with pictures and links) alongside plain text alternative versions.  Creating an attractive email campaign is usually done in a WYSIWYG editor, so it means that you don’t have to know lots of fiddly html code either.

It’s personal
You can personalise your email campaign – for example, addressing it as ”Dear Laura” rather than “Dear Colleague” (effectively a mail merge online).  With an email you can opt-in and opt-out functions, and functions whereby your reader can forward to a friend or update their details. 

Measurable Results
Sending an email campaign means that you can monitor who opens your emails and which links they click.  It also helps you to manage your contacts by reporting on the number of  “soft bounces” (i.e. out of office replies) or “hard bounces” (i.e. email address no longer in use) that you receive.  You can also compare reports and effectiveness of archived campaigns.

Time Effective
Email communication is quick to set up and is instant in its delivery (no postal strikes!) – plus you can usually time your campaign to send at a specific time / day.  Email is global and it’s 24 hour.

Cost Effective
Sending an e-marketing campaign is also very cost effective.  As with the example of MailChimp – there are free offers out there (although sending options can be limited), but there are also many other platforms that offer a variety of different pricing options.  

Of course there other things to take into consideration as well. Such as;

The high “noise to action” ratio of email communications (people receive a lot of email during the course of a day – much of which gets forgotten about / ignored)

Data protection – make sure you aren’t spamming people! (read the Email Marketing Council’s best practice guidelines here)

You won’t be able to communicate with people who have no access to the internet

As mentioned previously, the MailChimp system caught my eye as it seemed quite a generous free offering.  However, there are many organisations that can help with email marketing, as you can see from this extensive list from the Direct Marketing Association

During my ten or so years in the corporate world I had the distinctive pleasure of observing and occasionally meeting some fantastic creatures. Being part of IT companies it would be very easy to single out the “geek” persona. These and other corporate characters (suck-ups, rebels, smellers) you already know pretty well. I’m going to direct your attention to other types you might already know, but didn’t quite figure out how to name, let alone understand their behavior. Hopefully my musings here will help you deal with these creatures when you next encounter them.

Corporate Copycats

Suck-ups are a dime a dozen in any company. It’s safe to say wherever there’s a boss, someone’s face is attached to his ass. The copycat is a different creature. You might say copycats are enhanced versions of suck-ups. Their utmost desire is to become a person other than themselves, so they pick their target (usually his / her boss or a member of upper management) and basically copy their behavior to the extent of their possibilities.

I’ve come across these creatures in more than one occasion. They not only back-up whatever their bosses say, no matter how stupid or unreasonable it might be, they usually adopt it with a passion and blind eagerness to obey more suited to the military than to a business environment.

It is a very dangerous thing to follow rules without thinking, that’s why copycats are potentially dangerous individuals. In case you encounter one and you happen to disagree on a particular subject, be mindful that since copycats have no mind of their own their mind cannot be changed. You will never succeed unless you manage to convince their object of desire (i.e. the person they emulate) of changing his mind instead. This strategy could mean jumping the chain of command, so it must be used wisely.

The Un-feedback-able

I’ve spent half of my professional life as a manager, and as such delivering periodical feedback has always been one of my duties. In all of my teams without exception there has always been a person that no matter how much I tried to explain things to, would always wind up not listening or not caring and ultimately doing whatever they wanted to. Also, they would rebut every single piece of negative feedback, finding a very reasonable justification for every single thing you dare consider a flaw in their performance. These are the un-feedback-able.

Coincidentally or not, in my teams, these were always brilliant people with authority issues and stubborn to the bone. I remember dreading the moment in which I had to deliver them feedback and in more than one occasion I would purposely schedule the appointment at the end of the day because I knew my mind would not be good for much after it.

Finally (after a few years) I came up with the formula to deal with the un-feedback-able: pulling rank. If you know me or have read my previous post on management you’ll know that I discourage this type of method unless necessary. This is one such occasion.

I found that time and brain cells could be saved by using phrases such as: “I can see you are not in agreement with my position, but I’m your manager and I will be evaluating you according to what I just told you.”

Sadly, most times they carried on doing exactly what they wanted to, but at least, if on their next evaluation I had to shave points off their final score I could do so without so much as an “I told you to do things in a different way”.

Showoffs

In a recent comment to one of my posts, one of you inspired the species I’m about to describe. The comment described those developers that just can’t do something in a straightforward fashion and wind up unnecessarily complicating things in order to prove to others their vast knowledge. These are the tech showoffs you can find in almost all development teams.

The behavior of these creatures is clearly derived of insecurity. Not long ago men resorted to their cars to make up for their shortcomings elsewhere. Later, cars were replaced (or accompanied) by gadgets such as laptop computers, cell phones or smart-phones. Nowadays, for developers, penis size can be measured by the amount of unnecessary frameworks they are able to pile up in order to create a single “Hello World” application.

It doesn’t matter if something that could be done in fifteen minutes took five months to build, or that it has the hardware requirements of an electric power plant; showing off to your peers justifies almost anything.

When confronted with one of these creatures you need to know this is almost always a sin of youth and will eventually fade away. Anything you can do to speed up the learning process could help, but remember no matter how much you try to teach life experience, there is nothing like experiencing by one-self. Working a five-day rush will teach any showoff that sometimes a smart architectural or design choice will pay off big at a later stage.

Self Promoter 2.0

I know self promoters are no novelty, but social networking has helped engineer a completely new breed of this fascinating species. They don’t just brag about their accomplishments (whether real or invented) in office halls anymore. They have expanded their domain and now spend most of their time building their 2.0 personas to be the very reflection of the perfect professional, something of course they could accomplish by doing some actual work once in a while, but… why bother?

This creature is cunning, let’s face it, there is no way a person with no smarts can pull this off. However, they tend to build as much enemies as fans, since subordinates or peers of these individuals often feel social self promoters are full of it and take credit when they don’t deserve it or just plain don’t do the job they are supposed to and more work falls on their laps.

I have yet to figure out a way of dealing with social self promoters. I can’t say I have had direct interaction with any of them, but I keep hearing about them from acquaintances. Boy, do they sound pissed off. I eagerly await to see what happens when one of these individuals falls from grace. I believe that given their exposure they could immediately become pariahs. The bigger they are…

Flavor Combination

Any one person could simultaneously be more than one of the creatures described above. Surely a showoff has some traits of an un-feedback-able individual, and a traditional suck-up or self promoter could easily have the characteristics of both a copycat or a social self-promoter.

If you see a person that combines the four, please send a picture to both me and National Geographic. You could have an amazing discovery on your hands.

Shuje

On my next post I will explain why you should not feed developers after midnight. In the meantime, I would very much like to hear about the fauna in your workplace. Any creatures I should know of? Comment below or e-mail me at shuje@holoom.com

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seorangayah.wp.com, Berikut ini adalah kisah yang dapat mengingatkan kita akan sisi lain dari makna Qurban, mungkin Anda pernah membaca tulisan ini, namun bagi saya tidak ada yang ‘basi’ dalam kebaikan. Selamat Menikmati kisah Nissan X-Trail, Sepeda Tua dan Qurban.

Kuhentikan mobil tepat di ujung kandang tempat berjualan hewan Qurban. Saat pintu mobil kubuka, bau tak sedap memenuhi rongga hidungku, dengan spontan aku menutupnya dengan saputangan.

Suasana di tempat itu sangat ramai, dari para penjual yang hanya bersarung hingga ibu-ibu berkerudung Majelis Taklim, tidak terkecuali anak-anak yang ikut menemani orang tuanya melihat hewan yang akan di-Qurban-kan pada Idul Adha nanti, sebuah pembelajaran yang cukup baik bagi anak-anak sejak dini tentang pengorbanan NabiAllah Ibrahim & Nabi Ismail.

Aku masuk dalam kerumunan orang-orang yang sedang bertransaksi memilih hewan yang akan di sembelih saat Qurban nanti. Mataku tertuju pada seekor kambing coklat bertanduk panjang, ukuran badannya besar melebihi kambing-kambing di sekitarnya.

“Berapa harga kambing yang itu pak?” ujarku menunjuk kambing coklat tersebut.

“Yang coklat itu yang terbesar pak. Kambing Mega Super dua juta rupiah tidak kurang”, kata si pedagang berpromosi matanya berkeliling sambil tetap melayani calon pembeli lainnya.

“Tidak bisa turun pak?” kataku mencoba bernegosiasi.

“Tidak kurang tidak lebih, sekarang harga-harga serba mahal” si pedagang bertahan.

“Satu juta lima ratus ribu ya?” aku melakukan penawaran pertama

“Maaf pak, masih jauh.” ujarnya cuek.

Aku menimbang-nimbang, apakah akan terus melakukan penawaran terendah berharap si pedagang berubah pendirian dengan menurunkan harganya.

“Oke pak bagaimana kalau satu juta tujuh ratus lima puluh ribu?” kataku

“Masih belum nutup pak” ujarnya tetap cuek

“Yang sedang mahal kan harga minyak pak. Kenapa kambing ikut naik?” ujarku berdalih mencoba melakukan penawaran termurah.

“Yah bapak, meskipun kambing gak minum minyak. Tapi dia gak bisa datang ke sini sendiri. Tetap saja harus di angkut mobil pak, dan mobil bahan bakarnya bukan rumput,” kata si pedagang meledek.

Dalam hati aku berkata, alot juga pedagang satu ini. Tidak menawarkan harga selain yang sudah di kemukakannya di awal tadi. Pandangan aku alihkan ke kambing lainnya yang lebih kecil dari si coklat. Lumayan bila ada perbedaan harga lima ratus ribu.

Kebetulan dari tempat penjual kambing ini, aku berencana ke toko ban mobil. Mengganti ban belakang yang sudah mulai terlihat halus tusirannya. Kelebihan tersebut bisa untuk menambah budget ban yang harganya kini selangit.

“Kalau yang belang hitam putih itu berapa bang?” kataku kemudian

“Nah yang itu Super biasa. Satu juta tujuh ratus lima puluh ribu rupiah” katanya

Belum sempat aku menawar, di sebelahku berdiri seorang kakek menanyakan harga kambing coklat Mega Super tadi. Meskipun pakaian “korpri” yang ia kenakan lusuh, tetapi wajahnya masih terlihat segar.

“Gagah banget kambing itu. Berapa harganya mas?” katanya kagum.

“Dua juta tidak kurang tidak lebih kek.” kata si pedagang setengah malas menjawab setelah melihat penampilan si kakek.

“Weleh larang men regane (mahal benar harganya)?” kata si kakek dalam bahasa Purwokertoan ” bisa di tawar-kan ya mas?” lanjutnya mencoba negosiasi juga.

“Cari kambing yang lain aja kek.” si pedagang terlihat semakin malas meladeni.

“Ora usah (tidak) mas. Aku arep sing apik lan gagah Qurban taun iki (Aku mau yang terbaik dan gagah untuk Qurban tahun ini) Duit-e (uangnya) cukup kanggo (untuk) mbayar koq mas.” katanya tetap bersemangat seraya mengeluarkan bungkusan dari saku celananya. Bungkusan dari kain perca yang juga sudah lusuh itu di bukanya, enam belas lembar uang seratus ribuan dan sembilan lembar uang lima puluh ribuan dikeluarkan dari dalamnya.

“Iki (ini) dua juta rupiah mas. Weduse (kambingnya) dianter ke rumah ya mas?” lanjutnya mantap tetapi tetap bersahaja.

Si pedagang kambing kaget, tidak terkecuali aku yang memperhatikannya sejak tadi. Dengan wajah masih ragu tidak percaya si pedagang menerima uang yang disodorkan si kakek, kemudian di hitungnya perlahan lembar demi lembar uang itu.

“Kek, ini ada lebih lima puluh ribu rupiah” si pedagang mengeluarkan selembar lima puluh ribuan

“Ora ono ongkos kirime tho (Enggak ada ongkos kirimnya ya?) …?” si kakek seakan tahu uang yang diberikannya berlebih

“Dua juta sudah termasuk ongkos kirim” si pedagang yang cukup jujur memberikan lima puluh ribu ke kakek “mau di antar ke mana mbah?” (tiba-tiba panggilan kakek berubah menjadi mbah)

“Alhamdulillah, lewih (lebih) lima puluh ribu iso di tabung neh (bisa ditabung lagi)” kata si kakek sambil menerimanya ” tulung anterke ning deso cedak kono yo (tolong antar ke desa dekat itu ya), sak sampene ning mburine (sesampainya di belakang) Masjid Baiturrohman, takon ae umahe (tanya saja rumahnya) mbah Sutrimo pensiunan pegawe Pemda Pasir Mukti, InsyaAllah bocah-bocah podo ngerti (InsyaAllah anak-anak sudah tahu). “

Setelah selesai bertransaksi dan membayar apa yang telah di sepakatinya, si kakek berjalan ke arah sebuah sepeda tua yang di sandarkan pada sebatang pohon pisang, tidak jauh dari X-Trail milikku. Perlahan diangkat dari sandaran, kemudian dengan sigap di kayuhnya tetap dengan semangat.

Entah perasaan apa lagi yang dapat kurasakan saat itu, semuanya berbalik ke arah berlawanan dalam pandanganku. Kakek tua pensiunan pegawai Pemda yang hanya berkendara sepeda engkol, sanggup membeli hewan Qurban yang terbaik untuk dirinya.

Aku tidak tahu persis berapa uang pensiunan PNS yang diterima setiap bulan oleh si kakek. Yang aku tahu, di sekitar masjid Baiturrohman tidak ada rumah yang berdiri dengan mewah, rata-rata penduduk sekitar desa Pasir Mukti hanya petani dan para pensiunan pegawai rendahan. Yang pasti secara materi, sangatlah jauh di banding penghasilanku sebagai Manajer perusahaan swasta asing.

Aku yang manager sebuah perusahaan swasta, yang sanggup membeli rumah di kawasan cukup bergengsi, yang sanggup membeli kendaraan roda empat yang harga ban-nya saja cukup membeli seekor kambing Mega Super. Yang sanggup mempunyai hobby berkendara moge (motor gede) dan memilikinya Yang sanggup mengkoleksi “raket” hanya untuk olah-raga seminggu sekali Yang sanggup juga membeli hewan Qurban dua ekor sapi sekaligus.

Tapi apa yang aku pikirkan? Aku hanya hendak membeli hewan Qurban yang jauh di bawah kemampuanku yang harganya tidak lebih dari service rutin mobil X-Trail, kendaraanku di dunia fana. Sementara untuk kendaraanku di akhirat kelak, aku berpikir seribu kali saat membelinya.

Ya Allah, Engkau yang Maha Membolak-balikan hati manusia balikkan hati hambaMu yang tak pernah berSyukur ini ke arah orang yang pandai menSyukuri nikmatMu.

SELAMAT BER-QURBAN TEMAN-TEMAN. ………
MOGA ALLAH TERIMA QURBAN KITA TAHUN INI…….

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#kiriman seorang sahabat via email dengan judul asli : RENUNGAN ROHANI
#Selatan Jakarta, dalam suasana mendung di luar gedung…
#Seorangayah yang berniat untuk berqurban tahun ini

Bądź szefem

Czy dla każdego “szef” jest osobą kierującą nami w pracy i wydającą polecenia? Uważa tak 70% społeczeństwa. Co z pozostałymi? Otworzyli firmy, prowadzili działalność lub najprościej w świecie doświadczyli zarządzania zasobami ludzkimi w swojej karierze zawodowej.

Samozatrudnienie, bycie szefem dla samego siebie. Ukazuje jak wiele motywacji trzeba posiadać i zapału by postawiony sobie cel zrealizować. Zauważ, iż każdy może być szefem. Leksykalne wyjaśnienie terminu traci tu sens bezapelacyjnie.

Przełożony, właściciel czy dyrektor zarabiają na wynikach swoich podwładnych. Oni zaś pracują za stawkę. Postaw sobie pytanie pracując na etat kiedy możesz zarabiać więcej? Najprościej poprzez nadgodziny, a po pracy drugi etat. Na dłuższą metę wypali Cię to, a życie osobiste zaniknie. Na to także jest rozwiązanie… Awans. Tylko kiedy i jak długo? Bariera szybko się pojawi. Nie zarobi się więcej niż określoną stawkę ustanowioną przez właściciela przedsiębiorstwa.

Firma upada, tracimy pracę i jedyne źródło dochodów. Więc niech nasza praca na etat będzie kapitałem by stać się szefem dla siebie i w przyszłości innych młodych przedsiębiorców.

Czymże zatem jest bycie szefem? Odwołując się do pokazanego powyżej dowodu stosujemy implikacje, która wnioskuje nam, że nie jesteśmy zabezpieczeni mając stałą pracę i trzeba rozwijać się w wielu kierunkach. Wymaga tego postęp techniczny i ewolucja rynku pracy.

Bądź Szefem dla samego siebie, by w przyszłości móc powiedzieć, że wybrałem trudną ale bezpieczną drogę. Posiadanie celu, który pozwoli nam się rozwinąć. Ambicja i mobilizacja są nam niezbędnie potrzebne do wydania sobie poleceń.

Wyobraź sobie jak stoisz nad sobą i posługując się wulgaryzmami udzielasz sobie samemu reprymendy za brak dotrzymania terminów. Pracuj dla siebie nie dla pieniędzy. Pieniądze będą pracowały na Ciebie.

Ten mały krok może wiele zmienić w życiu. Ważne by pamiętać o autorozwoju swojej osobowości i umiejętności oraz obieraniu wielu dróg kariery na raz.

DAL Consulting, firma de consultanta si formare profesionala autorizata de catre CNFPA, organizeaza in perioada 8 – 18 decembrie 2009, la Iasi, cursul de perfectionare: MANAGER AL SISTEMULUI DE MANAGEMENT AL CALITATII – ISO 9001:2008. Inscrierile se pot face pana la data de 7 decembrie 2009. Cursul este acreditat CNFPA si finalizat cu certificat de absolvire recunoscut de MMFPS.

MAI MULT

Things, no matter what you think. What we believe what we get closer to ourselves. Our thoughts are really magnets.

Often, we are, and have thoughts that we do not need and in fact we get exactly the opposite of what we want. Yet we continue to have this kind of thinking.

Although, of course, this is of course the man, pay attention to how you can, and will, make-up every time. I promise.

If you are a survivor of domestic violence andyou think and feel the words and feelings showered upon you by your current or former perpetrator, what might you expect from that?

Think about it. You can and will bring onto yourself the creation, the manifestation of those thoughts. Ouch!

So how do you change your thoughts? We know that simply saying to ourselves NOT to think such and such only makes us think about it more and more… It’s like saying don’t think about an elephant. (Now what’s on your mind?)

Rather than leave you thinking, imagine if you let go of you. In my recovery from my nightmare run with domestic violence and the syndrome of abuse of rights, I discovered a process that is razor sharp for a change of lateral thinking.

You may have heard of The Work of Byron Katie. It's actually a very simple process that allows you to let go of thoughts that you do not need, which are the thoughts that do not serve the supreme good. ActuallyDo not Let Go thoughts, thoughts to indulge you.

If you are struggling with thoughts that go down, put those thoughts investigation until he let go of you. And in this category thought to be more authentic YOU.

Heh.  In yesterday’s pre-W(aL)D Wendy’s repost, it linked to a thread on PittsburghBeat.com which in turn linked to another old thread about Kmart which eventually came to a nice conclusion.  These weren’t listed in my older pre-W(aL)D post… so I thought I’d share them individually.

I filled out the survey noted on their receipts, at www.kmartfeedback.com. Apparently someone actually reads ‘em!

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From: “SM3616, Store Manager” sm3616@searshc.com To: XXXXXXXXXXXXX@yahoo.com Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 6:12:41 AM Subject: InquiryEric,I am the store manager of the below mentioned Kmart store. I would like to have an opportunity to speak with you directly. I do take pride in the store and would appreciate any and all feedback you can provide me to make your next shopping experience a pleasant one. Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you.JODIE M. STROTHER Store Manager #3616 Greentree, PA 15220 (412)922-3803 store (412)922-9268 fax ________________________________   Store Number: 3616 Customer Name: Eric XXXXXXX Customer Phone: contact by email Customer Phone (alternate): n/a Customer Email Address: XXXXXXXXXXXXX@yahoo.com Department: Customer Service Desk Category Code: Customer Service Experience Reason Code: General Frontend Service Issue Situation: SC# 0361611250800352385 The electronics department looks like someone knocked everything off the shelves, then had a dog put it all back. Pretty difficult without opposable thumbs, eh? Yes. Yes indeed. And, the dog didn’t know the alphabet in order to arrange CD’s & DVD’s either. The cashier did not say one word to me. ONE WORD. After waiting through the ridiculous line (no other registers were open, as I was being checked out another employee lazily sauntered over to her register), the woman rang me up did not say “hello”, “hi”, “good evening”, “credit or debt”, or even “Go #*%$ yourself!”. After all my items had gone through, and I paid. I even said “Thanks” and smiled… and got absolutely no indication that I had even been heard. My wife looked at me like we were in the Twilight Zone. Holy cow, this is ridiculous. Sadly, it’s indicative of what happens pretty much every time I go to that store. There are some other great area Kmarts, like the one in Robinson, and even the one in Bridgeville… but this one is closest to my house… What the heck is wrong with everyone who works there? Don’t they take any sort of pride in the store? Don’t the managers see what’s going on, how the store looks, how the employees behave… and why don’t they care??? I just can’t even fathom being a cashier, and not greeting people… or even acknowledging their presence. And, I can’t fathom a shift, store, or regional manager that would a. hire someone like that (let alone dozens like that); and b. let that kind of behavior slide. ***I was unable to call the customer no phone number, I did sent notification.**

So, I wrote these…

I wrote:

From: Eric _______ XXXXXXXXXXXXX@yahoo.com To: “SM3616, Store Manager” sm3616@searshc.com Sent: Monday, December 1, 2008 9:10:52 AM Subject: Re: InquiryHello Jodie,Thank you for taking the time to contact me. I’m not sure if there’s anything further to discuss. I pretty much expressed my issues below.   I can’t imagine how stressful it must be to run a store… but it seems that your Kmart is slipping in comparison to stores like the aforementioned Robinson & Bridgeville locations. Back when we were just dating, my wife used to work at the Kmart on Route 8 just outside of Shaler (not sure of the actual neighborhood there), and the managers were on them all the time to have multiple registers open, to have the shelves stocked neatly & orderly, and they always had a lot of registers open at the front. I just see a general lack of “give a damn” in Parkway Center. Hopefully the trend is reversing though, as this e-mail has shown me that you do indeed care about your store. Thank you for your time, -Eric

I wrote:

From: Eric _______ XXXXXXXXXXXXX@yahoo.com To: Customer Service Kmart.com help@customerservice.kmart.com Sent: Monday, December 1, 2008 10:07:05 AM Subject: Re: Store Manager SM3616 / JODIE M. STROTHERHello,I’d like to just pass on the e-mail below, & show my appreciation for this store manager taking the time to contact me regarding my comments made via kmartfeedback.com as noted on my store receipt. Can someone let her superiors know that her time and effort did not go unnoticed?   Hopefully she can pass the message of store pride on to the employees. Thank you, -Eric

Hmm, I got a response…

JODIE M. STROTHER wrote:

From: “SM3616, Store Manager” sm3616@searshc.com To: Eric _______ XXXXXXXXXXXXX@yahoo.com Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 7:05:00 AM Subject: RE: InquiryEric,Stressful is a word that doesn’t even describe what retail is nowadays. However, I do take pride in the store and at times it does get out of control. I appreciate feedback any way it comes. We strive to do our best with the personnel in the store. It does fall apart at times and we are working hard at correcting those problems. Just keep us on your shopping list this year and let us try to show you we are looking at alternative ways to improve your shopping experience.   Happy holidays and I look forward to hearing from you in the future. JODIE M. STROTHER Store Manager #3616 Greentree, PA 15220 (412)922-3803 store (412)922-9268 fax ________________________________

I found this to be a fairly positive response.  I can’t imagine trying to manage a group of people who generally do not care.

This is the icing on the cake though…

AiXeLsyD13 wrote: Remember my Kmart rant? Bethany was in there not too long ago, walked by the electronics section and said it’s all neat & orderly…..and the cashier greeted her.

It had been almost over a year since i wrote my article about Hollister, but yet i still had the job.

I did not seem to mind anymore. I continued the tradition of swallowing my pride, but no longer  did I care about my discount, my job became an important social aspect of my life.

Oh yes, this was until we got the new boss.

Everyone knows what it’s like getting a new boss. He or she will either be a pushover or a complete toolbag. For me, it always seems to be the latter.

His name was Derek. He was a large man who barely fit into the company’s clothing. This was because he spent most of his life at the gym. I think by spending so much time sculpting his guns he may have constricted a few too many blood vessels.

He seemed to have been pointing out flaws in everyone’s work and letting us go unappreciated for the hours we were putting in.Luckily for me, he hadn’t found a flaw yet.

I think this panicked him. So for my final month working, he stalked me. Hid behind plants, lurked quietly in the corner, watching, waiting for me to screw up. And then I did.

A woman old enough to George Burn’s mother walked into our store. I was not about to berate this woman with the company’s tagline “Hey, what’ up?” It would have only have confused her, and I did not feel like giving this woman a cerebral aneurysm by explaining it.

"My mother was a saint!"

So I said “Hi, how are you doing today?!”

Big fucking mistake.

According to my manager, being hip and cool out weighs friendly and polite. No more could i work for this man, so I wrote him this letter

“Dear Derek,

If you don’t know by now, I don’t enjoy my job. If you haven’t noticed, it’s because you’re completely devoid of human emotion.

I started this job with high hopes. I thought working here would be a relaxed environment; my oh my how naïve I was.

I soon was whisked into a world of mass consumerism and materialism that I couldn’t have begun to fathom before I started working here. For instance: the company’s idea of model standards.

I’m not an idiot; I can hear your conference calls. I heard Chelsea complaining about our model’s not wearing enough plaid. I heard the other managers talking about their new recruitments. “I think she’s really cute, she’d be great” or “I don’t like him, especially after he shaved his head.”

How about this, who gives a fuck?

It wasn’t until recently that I realized this, I’ve known this forever. If you didn’t know I’ve been with the company longer than you have, so for me to only notice this now would be absurd.

The last string was pulled earlier this week. According to anonymous sources at the manager meeting, the managers, you believe that we are stressed out because of the company’s instance for us to wear plaid.

^Way too stressed out

I’m tired of making witty comments and transfusing them with sarcasm, so I’m just going to be blunt. It’s not the plaid; it’s you.

By hearing this quote I realized there is no getting through to you. You have no idea of how other human beings think or act. It’s the only explanation

You’re like a robot.

But it doesn’t matter, because you don’t. I can think of a long list of things that are more important than Hollister’s and your impact in the world including Atkins, contact lenses, snuggies, antiperspirant deodorant,  Go-gurt, crystal meth, red states, socialism, Hayden Panterrie, that funny asian guy off of Knocked Up, construction paper, Bonanza, barracudas, cheap cologne, and George Clooney.

So I’m going to go back to my life of yager bombs and happiness and you can go back to yours of snorting testosterone and So Cal.

Yours truly,

Mario

PS: PULL UP YOUR FUCKING PANTS!!!!!!! “

I hope I made my point.

Grimsby Town name youth-team coach Neil Woods as their new manager…. From BBC News. Full story

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Heh. This is an older amusing one that wasn’t covered in my post about past W(aL)D insanity.

This one isn’t really completely in the W(aL)D category, as it’s a legitimate complaint… but still, it’s ridiculous enough to share. Below is the my initial email regarding the incident, and I actually broke my “no calls” rule to talk to a regional manager who was not amused.

You can see what she had to say as it all played out in a thread at PittsburghBeat.com.

At any rate, it pays to make problems like this known.

Enjoy!

-mE.
.seitilibasid gninrael fo nuf ekam ot ynnuf ton yllaer s’tI

Forwarded Message —-
From: Eric Carroll <me@myaddre.ss>
To: dnstech@wendys.com; dnsadmin@wendys.com
Sent: Mon, January 26, 2009 11:45:04 AM
Subject: Wendy’s in Dormont (Pittsburgh, PA) – W. LIBERTY #5

Hello,

I’d like to share with you a review of my experience at a local Wendy’s (W. LIBERTY #5 according to the Wendy’s store locator), also posted on UrbanSpoon.com. I don’t have very many “bad” reviews up, but this Wendy’s location has gone slow and messed up my order countless times.

I’d like to know how Wendy’s as a corporation feels about restaurants like this, and what (if any) measures are taken by corporate to see that this kind of thing doesn’t go on.

The full text of my review can be viewed here: http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/23/1346715/restaurant/Far-South-South-Hills/Wendys-Old-Fashioned-Hamburgers-Dormont-Pittsburgh

But I will also post it here for your consideration:

“Dave Thomas would be ashamed…” by ERiC AiXeLsyD (63 reviews)

January 26, 2009 – Doesn’t like it – Seriously. I know I”ve said these words before about McDonald’s… I get that it’s only fast food, it’s cheap, and that I shouldn’t expect much… but holy cow, is this consistently one of the slowest “fast food” restaurants that I’ve ever been to. Of course, like an idiot, I keep going back hoping that it might someday be an actual convenience. Let me share with you my latest adventure…

Sunday morning, my wife & I were on our way out to my Mom’s house in the ‘Burbs… so we thought we’d get a quick bite to eat. It was nearing the 11:00am mark, so I knew we were going to hit the breakfast/lunch changeover. We skipped the McDormontonald’s because the drive-thru line looked like rush hour in the Liberty tubes. Thankfully, Wendy’s appeared to be a ghost town. There was hardly anyone inside, and there was one car ahead of us in the drive-thru but they were all the way up at the window.

As we pulled up to the speaker to place our order, I asked if they were serving breakfast or lunch, & was informed that they were serving both. So, I ordered the breakfast chicken sandwich combo, and the wife ordered the #2 bacon panini combo.

After receiving the order in what would be considered a long wait in a normal fast food environment but translated to remarkably quick at this location, I pulled into a nearby spot to inspect the goods. (Sadly, a must any more.)We discovered that my order was fine, but the wife had received a sausage panini instead of the ordered bacon panini. I checked the receipt to see if I had mis-ordered the # of the combo. Nope. The receipt clearly stated BACON in that nifty dot-matrix receipt font.

My wife’s not a big fan of sausage patties, and she was reluctantly leaning toward just eating it because time was of the essence. I know I like to eat what I ordered & paid for, so I went inside to get what I thought would be a simple swap-out.

Oh my, was I wrong.

My first encounter was with the young girl at the cash register. I politely stated that we had just gone through the drive-thru and that I wanted to exchange the sausage panini that we had received for the bacon one that we ordered.

I was told that breakfast was over & that hey couldn’t make a bacon one. After a slight pause of disbelief and bewilderment, I told her that I had just been handed the sandwich less that a minute ago through the drive-thru window… and it had been made just seconds before that.

She then yelled for her manager, and I stepped aside so she could help the next customer.

Now, while never working at a fast food establishment, I do understand that changeover time is changeover time… something to do with eggs on the cooking surface and kitchen setup and all sorts of things that are surely beyond my comprehension as the average fast food consumer.

After a wait the manager (coincidentally the very same person who handed me the order through the drive-thru window) came over and I again explained my situation… and he looked at me. Yes. Just stared blankly at me. For an awkwardly long time. I actually started to wonder if he understood English & was capable of hearing. Compelled to break the silence, I even showed him the receipt that clearly said BACON. All caps. No confusion!

Again, I was met with “we’re serving lunch now, we can’t make that”. OK. I understand. I get that. The point now is what can you do for me?

I asked if I could get something else as compensation, and/or get my money back. (I think I was growing visibly frustrated by this point.)

I called the wife, explained to her the complexity of the situation, and she decided upon a Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger. So, I asked for one of those… and waited… and waited… While a guy who had gone in line in front of me had ordered during my exchange with the manager was waiting too.

After a while he exclaimed with multiple expletives that it was a ridiculously long wait, and how it was un-f’n-believable that a fast food restaurant with 3 people in it and a packed kitchen could go so slow.

I could hardly contain my laughter as I was also driven to the limits of my patience.

After what was surely sufficient time to cook & assemble 20 Jr. Bacon cheeseburgers, I received that, AND my money back for the sausage panini (which was now in the trash right behind the counter). So, I guess I got a free cheeseburger, hash browns & a drink.

I never did get any kind of apology, or admittance that they had messed up the order. (Which bewilders me that one can read bacon off of a screen and put down sausage… but I’m certainly not above making mistakes… so I can’t fault anyone for that.)

I just find it amazing that they weren’t apologizing from the start and presenting a solution instead of waiting for me to come up with one.

You’d think they’d have a “keep the customer happy” policy in place. Don’t they teach you any of this when you go to school to be a manager at Wendy’s?Take mom n’ pop shops… if they screw up an order or take too long, they’d give you a discount or a free drink or a coupon for next time… and they’re certainly taking more of a profit hit than a chain that would do the same thing.

At any rate, don’t go to Wendy’s in Dormont if you’re in a hurry, or if you actually want what you ordered.

I like Wendy’s. I grew up eating at the one in Murrysville, I frequent the one in Canonsburg for lunch. You have decent food for a cheap price, and I generally feel that the quality is better than that of other fast food chains.

I’d love to be able to eat peacefully and grab a quick bite to eat at the Wendy’s closest to where I live.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on my experience, and I look forward to your reply.

Thank you for your time, and listening to my story.

-Eric Carroll

me@myaddre.ss

Krijg ik net te horen wie mijn nieuwe manager wordt! Soms gaan dingen zo snel…

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Evet arkadaşlar şimdi hep birlikte yeni taktiksel düzenlemelere göz atacağız.Öncelikle Tactic Creator’u tanıtarak başlayalım.

Tactic Creator oyun tarzınıza ve oyuncularınıza paralel olarak taktiğinizi hazırlayan bir editör.Bu editör vasıtasıyla çok daha kısa bir zaman dilimi içerisinde çok daha verimli taktikler yaratabilirsiniz.Oluşan şablonu gördükten sonra dilediğiniz gibi değişiklikler de yapabilirsiniz.

Şimdi ben size örnek bir taktik hazırlayacağım. İlk başta takımımızın squad bölümünden tactic kısmını açıyoruz.Ardından Create Tactic’e tıklıyoruz.Önümüze gelen Introduction bölümünü geçin,next’e tıklayın.Formation bölümüne geçmiş olacaksınız:

Burada oyuncularınızın saha içinde nasıl bir düzen içinde olacağını belirleyeceksiniz.Oyuncuları dilediğiniz gibi kaydırabilir ya da solda bulunan taktiklerden birini seçebilirsiniz.Ben sizin için 4-1-4-1 formasyonunu seçtim.

Next’e tıklayalım.Şimdi karşımıza Playing Philosophy yani sizin oyun anlayışınız bölümü geliyor:

Bu ekranda nasıl bir futbol ortaya koyacağınızı belirliyorsunuz.Yani aşırı derecede kontrollü veya dengeli,ya da yaratıcılığın ve futbol estetiğinin ortaya çıkacağı Fluid seçenekleri var.Fluid’i işaretlediğinizde defans oyuncularınızın geriye hızlı bir şekilde dönmeleri ideal görülüyor.Aynı zamanda Fluid’i işaretlediğimizde takımınızda yaratıcı oyuncuların da bulunması öneriliyor.Very Fluid seçeneğinde ise hücümcularınızın savunma yapabilmesi savunmacılarınızın da hücüma katkı sağlaması bekleniyor.Rigid ve Very Rigid seçeneklerini küme düşmeme adına mücadele veren takımlar için,balanced seçeneğini ise mid-table takımları için öneriyorum.Ben Fluid’i seçerek başlıyorum.

Next’e tıklayalım.Karşımıza saha içerisindeki davranışlarımızı belirleyen bölüm gelecektir.Playing Style.Burada takımınızın pas yapma,yaratıcılık,markaj,savunma,orta açma gibi pek çok özelliğini belirliyorsunuz.Bu tercih size kalmış.Ancak ben daha atak bir takım yaratmak adına ayarlamalarımı şu şekilde gerçekleştirdim:

Şimdi de çok önemli bir bölüme geçiyoruz.Player Rules.Burada oyuncularınızın nasıl bir davranış içerisinde olacağını belirleyeceğiz.

Size birkaç öneri sunacağım.Savunma önceliğini elinizde tutmak için savunma oyuncularınıza ekstra bir görev vermeyin.

Ön liberonuzu “anchor man” haline getirdiğinizde oyuncunuz defans ile orta saha hattı üzerinde bir köprü vazifesi görecektir,top kazanmaya çalışacak defanstan top alarak hücuma lanse edecektir.Bu vazifeyi gerçekleştirebilmek için oyuncunuzun top kapma,hava topu hakimiyeti ile markaj özellikleri yüksek olmalı,desicions denilen mental özelliği iyi olmalı ve oyuncunuz maksimum dayanıklılığa ve güce sahip olmalıdır.

Orta sahanın ortasında oynayan(MC) oyuncularınızı box to box haline getirdiğinizde oyuncunuzdan non-stop dinamizm beklenir.Fiziksel olarak yeterlilik birinci kıstastır.Box to box oyuncusu hem hücumda hem savunmada etkili olabilecek özelliğe sahip olmalıdır.Oyuncunuzun teknik kapasitesi,hava topu hakimiyeti ve uzaktan şut çekebilme yeteneği oldukça önemlidir.

Kanat oyuncularınızı winger haline getirdiğinizde bu oyuncular topu dip çizgiye taşıyacak,sürekli hücumda olacaklar yani hücüm hattınızın kalbini oluışturacaklar.Bu oyuncular defans oyuncularını aşırı derecede korkutacak niteliklere sahip olmalıdırlar.Teknik kapasitesi yüksek,iyi top süren,çabuk oyunculara ihtiyacınız var.Bu oyuncular için de fiziksel yeterlilik teknik kapasite kadar önemlidir.

Forvetiniz skor üreteceğiniz kimseler.Bunlara vereceğiniz görevler de bu yüzden çok önemli.

 Forvetinize Deep Lying Forward emrini verdiğiniz zaman oyuncunuzun bitiriciliğinden çok,topla oynama yeteneğine,pas kabiliyetine bakılır.Bu tip bir forvet topu ayağında tutarak diğer arkadaşlarını hücüma dahil eder.

Advanced Forward hem skor üretebilmeli hem de isabetli pas ve ortalar vasıtasıyla tehlike yaratabilmelidir.Bu tip bir forvet çabuk olmalıdır.

Target Man ise teknik kapasitesinden çok,hava hakimiyeti ve gücüyle kıstas edilir.Bu tip bir oyuncu topu önüne iyi alabilmeli yani Touch özelliği iyi olmalı,hava toplarında etkili olmalı,iyi zıplamalı ve güçlü olmalıdır.

Poacher ise top süren ve topu iyi kullanan ve bu yolla da skor üreten forvettir.

Complete Forward ise dünya starları üzerinde uygulanabilir.Trequarista ise forvet arkası görevi görür.İyi pas yapmalıdır. Ben görevleri şu şekilde dağıttım:

6. Bölümde oyuncularınızın hücüma mı dönük yoksa savunmatik mi olacağını belirleyebilirsiniz. 7. Bölümde ise oyunun ilk dakikalarında kontrollü,kontra futbolu,defansif futbol gibi nasıl oynayacağınıza karar veriyorsunuz. Eksik gördüğünüz bir şey var ise lütfen yorumlayın.

İYİ OYUNLAR!!!

So, da es etwas schneller gehen musste und der Name eigentlich gut gefiel, haben wir unser kleines (großes) Projekt jetzt TubeFlect getauft.

Wie schon im letzten Post geschrieben werde ich jeden Fortschritt hier protokollieren. Aus diesem Grund gibt es eine neue Kategorie im nkreipke-Blog: TubeFlect Fortschritte. Ich werde versuchen, regelmäßig ein Statusupdate zu geben, in dem ich protokolliere, was ich gemacht habe, was Obi gemacht hat und was als nächstes getan werden muss, und das zusammen mit Quelltextausschnitten und Screenshots. Das ist informativ und außerdem auch eine gute Hilfe für mich. Übrigens ist in dem Zusammenhang die Kategorie Lost Projects verschwunden, da ich dafür keine Zeit mehr habe.

Gut, genug der Einleitung. Zum Protokoll für heute:

• Projekt TubeFlect mit XCode erstellt
• Ein grober Entwurf der linken Leiste folderList und der Menüleiste ist in Interface Builder entstanden
• Klassen TubeFlectController (Menüleiste, leer), YouTubeAPIModel (leer), FolderListController und FolderListItem erstellt
• FolderListController und FolderListItem sind weitestgehend funktionsfähig. Es ist möglich, Items in der folderList zu erstellen, zu ändern und zu löschen.
• Beim init von TubeFlect werden automatisch die Items Home,  Subscriptions, Recommended for You und Archived erzeugt
• Alle Items wurden mit passenden Symbolen versehen

Als nächstes zu tun:

• Die 4 Standarditems werden so wie die nachträglich hinzugefügten behandelt, können also gelöscht und umbenannt werden, was unerwünscht ist. Schlauer wäre es, ein zweites NSTableView zu erstellen, das nur die 4 Items enthält und nicht editierbar ist.
• Anfang mit dem Designing der Hauptspalte

It has been almost 3 months since I have been downsized  from my job as a Casino Manager.  I have sent a gazillion  resumes out in cyberspace.  These resumes show my casino experience as well as my previous experience as a social service specialist.  Gone, it seems, are the days of needing a job, looking for a job, and starting work.  It used to be that when you needed a job, you looked in the newspaper or talked to people you knew.  You filled out an application and were called in for an interview.  You put on your best business attire and set-out to land a job.  People that had the ability to hire you, actually talked to you.  You were able to show your personality and your strengths.  Now it seems as if all a company cares about  is what is found in your resumé.  Resume’s are cold and impersonal.  No matter how fine-tuned you have made your resumé, it is still just a piece of paper.  A resumé doesn’t show your smile, your empathy, your social skills, your abilities to make someone comfortable.  All it shows is the facts, and even those facts are  easily manipulated.  How do you make that connection?  You know when you just click with someone.  How does a resume show that?

Companies are receiving so many resumes that they apparently do not feel the need to follow-up on them.  No one seems to realize that there is a real person sitting out there, waiting to hear something back from the company.  I recently sent a resume for a position that I am very well qualified to fill.  I waited 3 days and followed my resumé up with a phone call to check the status of my application.  The company let me know  that my resumé had been received and that it was very good and that I certainly had the qualifications that they desired.  I was also told that they had received 157 additional resumes since receiving mine.  Companies can and do take their time going through each of these resumes.  In the meantime, I am running out of resources.  I am questioning whether or not I will ever have health insurance again.  I am looking into other avenues to support myself.  I am blocked by a lack of finances when it comes to most new ventures.  I am almost 58 years old and never thought that I would find myself in this position. 

I would like to do something with my photography.  Maybe I can specialize in senior citizen portraits?  Maybe I can sell some of my photo art pieces?  Maybe I can find a publisher for the children’s book I wrote years ago?  I need to find a niche and fill it.    I’m bright, I’m funny, I’m personable, I’m adaptable, and I need a job!

22 novembre 2009

ti mando istantaneamente a fare in culo oppure ascolto pazientemente i tuoi lamenti,

e dopo averti invitato dolcemente a proporre soluzioni oltre che segnalare problemi;

poi mi alzo comunque,  batto un pugno sul tavolo e ti caccio fuori insultandoti? Mah…