Excellent NYT article
No Need to Stew: A Few Tips to Cope With Life's Annoyances
By IAN URBINA
When Seth Shepsle goes to Starbucks, he orders a "medium" because "grande" - as the coffee company calls the size, the one between big and small - annoys him.
Meg Daniel presses zero whenever she hears a computerized operator on the telephone so that she can talk to a real person. "Just because they want a computer to handle me doesn't mean I have to play along," she said.
When subscription cards fall from magazines Andrew Kirk is reading, he stacks them in a pile at the corner of his desk. At the end of each month, he puts them in the mail but leaves them blank so that the advertiser is forced to pay the business reply postage without gaining a new subscriber.
I like these people, and make a habit of doing 2 of these 3 things myself. the mail's next. read the whole article.
By IAN URBINA
When Seth Shepsle goes to Starbucks, he orders a "medium" because "grande" - as the coffee company calls the size, the one between big and small - annoys him.
Meg Daniel presses zero whenever she hears a computerized operator on the telephone so that she can talk to a real person. "Just because they want a computer to handle me doesn't mean I have to play along," she said.
When subscription cards fall from magazines Andrew Kirk is reading, he stacks them in a pile at the corner of his desk. At the end of each month, he puts them in the mail but leaves them blank so that the advertiser is forced to pay the business reply postage without gaining a new subscriber.
I like these people, and make a habit of doing 2 of these 3 things myself. the mail's next. read the whole article.
posted by quickstuff at 15.3.05
1 Comments:
funny article, though I don't like some of the passive-aggressive tactics espoused. For instance, if you're in a bar or restaurant and no one is watching the TV, kindly ask the bartender to turn it off. Further, most junk mailers will take you off their list if you call them and request it - no sense in them wasting postage on a proven dead end...
I love the subscription card idea though!
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