Things that make them upset . . . . Part 2
Ok, so if your tech guy is involved in any way (no matter how much) on the conference side of technology, this may make more sense. Vendors. Yes, vendors. Yes, they are needed. Yes, they are wanted. Yes, they are respected. Yes, they can be a huge pain in the . . . . anyway, vendors. You have to spend money to make money. Anyone ever heard of that phrase? Sometimes I don't think some vendors have. Listen, even in the blue collar of blue collar worlds where they have flea markets YOU HAVE TO PAY to get a booth. The more you pay the better the booth, location, package, etc. How does this not make any sense?
It is kind of like driving through at your favorite local burger place that you have been going to for years. You pull up to the order taking box and say that you want a # 1. You then pull up to pay for it and say, "last time I was here it was $3.19, why is it now $3.39?" They explain, with a very reasonable explanation. You pull away. You get home and you notice that the sandwich is smaller. Not realizing that the box has changed size, now bigger, making the sandwich SEEM smaller. You then decide that because it is different and more expensive, that you will not go and order a number 1 again. The next time you order a # 2. Now the #2 is a different kind of sandwich. You then complain because the box is not changed on this one. The price is still the same therefore you realize that the whole reason you were charged more for the number 1 was because they decided to change the box. Apparently stumped, you then try to go around the order taker and speak to a manger who then gives you the same explanation that the order taker gave to you the last time. Bottomline, the corporation has been around awhile. It has grown, they have merged, there are more locations, the demand is more, boxes change, things change and you have to pay what the new charges are because that is just the way that it is. Why does this not make sense to these "business" people? They then say that their sandwich was better last time than this time and now want the old sandwich back. Do you think that is going to happen? No. I do not understand why people do these kinds of things. We are not talking about small no name companies here. We are talking about companies that have been in business for years along with the people they are dealing with on the other end of the phone. Do you think that they are just going to say ok? Do you think, like the burger place, that there aren't other people in line behind them just waiting to get their sandwich? It would be nice to live in a world where there was no one else in line behind you but that is not that way that it works. Pay for what you WANT, get what you WANT. But you can't decide what the price is, or else you wouldn't need to go to that burger place in the first place.
It is kind of like driving through at your favorite local burger place that you have been going to for years. You pull up to the order taking box and say that you want a # 1. You then pull up to pay for it and say, "last time I was here it was $3.19, why is it now $3.39?" They explain, with a very reasonable explanation. You pull away. You get home and you notice that the sandwich is smaller. Not realizing that the box has changed size, now bigger, making the sandwich SEEM smaller. You then decide that because it is different and more expensive, that you will not go and order a number 1 again. The next time you order a # 2. Now the #2 is a different kind of sandwich. You then complain because the box is not changed on this one. The price is still the same therefore you realize that the whole reason you were charged more for the number 1 was because they decided to change the box. Apparently stumped, you then try to go around the order taker and speak to a manger who then gives you the same explanation that the order taker gave to you the last time. Bottomline, the corporation has been around awhile. It has grown, they have merged, there are more locations, the demand is more, boxes change, things change and you have to pay what the new charges are because that is just the way that it is. Why does this not make sense to these "business" people? They then say that their sandwich was better last time than this time and now want the old sandwich back. Do you think that is going to happen? No. I do not understand why people do these kinds of things. We are not talking about small no name companies here. We are talking about companies that have been in business for years along with the people they are dealing with on the other end of the phone. Do you think that they are just going to say ok? Do you think, like the burger place, that there aren't other people in line behind them just waiting to get their sandwich? It would be nice to live in a world where there was no one else in line behind you but that is not that way that it works. Pay for what you WANT, get what you WANT. But you can't decide what the price is, or else you wouldn't need to go to that burger place in the first place.
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