Recycle
Cleaning the study was the tall order of the weekend. In preparation of our move to Ithaca, we decided we would junk most if not all the non essentials. The first on the list were the hundreds of pages of essays that I pain staking wrote out. To give a better perspective, I wrote atleast 10 drafts per essay for Wharton (6 essays), which works out to 60 essays in all. As I went through the pre-final 9 drafts, I made corrections, notes and penned down thoughts on how I wished the essay to flow. So that added up to a stack of papers. All of which was happily chewed up by my shredder, with absolutely no thought to the effort involved in producing the volume of work (pretty much like the Wharton AdCom actually). Also added to the recycle bin were the 20-30 brochures I received and or printed from the various MBA schools out there. The worst offender in sending out SPAM brochures had to be UC Davis. Which for some reason sent me a mailing a week for months, probably wanted me to have a spare copy in case I misplaced my last one, utterly ridiculous.
I did get to go to Fry's, the local electronic department store, whose tag line just happens to be "your best buys are always at Fry's". Note the emphasis on Best Buy, their greatest competitors. While I feel Fry's are definitely cheaper than Best Buy on some big ticket items, the over all shopping experience there is extremely tacky and nothing to write home about. To make a return, you have to stand in never ending lines and the amount of paper they require to complete transactions is a joke. They probably run through a redwood tree a day to meet the demand. Instead of thin small receipts as at most stores, at Fry's they print A4 copies in triplicate. It just so happened that I bought a GB of SD memory amongst other things, from a sales woman who knew nothing of what she was selling. After completing the transaction via credit card, I realized I had a 100$ gift certificate that I could have used. So I tried to get the charges reversed and charged to the gift certificate instead, that obviously was a 'no can do'. So had to stand in line for 30 mins, at the return counter for another 10 while the associate called his boss, who called his boss to authorize the return. After that ordeal, I had to go back to the main counter to re-buy the stuff. But since the SD Card was a 'cage' item, that implied 3 more A4 pages to release it for sale.
Blogger for some reason was extremely slow and painful to use for most of last week. Had to forgo posting because I just couldn't deal with the wait times.
I did get to go to Fry's, the local electronic department store, whose tag line just happens to be "your best buys are always at Fry's". Note the emphasis on Best Buy, their greatest competitors. While I feel Fry's are definitely cheaper than Best Buy on some big ticket items, the over all shopping experience there is extremely tacky and nothing to write home about. To make a return, you have to stand in never ending lines and the amount of paper they require to complete transactions is a joke. They probably run through a redwood tree a day to meet the demand. Instead of thin small receipts as at most stores, at Fry's they print A4 copies in triplicate. It just so happened that I bought a GB of SD memory amongst other things, from a sales woman who knew nothing of what she was selling. After completing the transaction via credit card, I realized I had a 100$ gift certificate that I could have used. So I tried to get the charges reversed and charged to the gift certificate instead, that obviously was a 'no can do'. So had to stand in line for 30 mins, at the return counter for another 10 while the associate called his boss, who called his boss to authorize the return. After that ordeal, I had to go back to the main counter to re-buy the stuff. But since the SD Card was a 'cage' item, that implied 3 more A4 pages to release it for sale.
Blogger for some reason was extremely slow and painful to use for most of last week. Had to forgo posting because I just couldn't deal with the wait times.
1 Comments:
Hi aregon23,
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