I had the privilege of viewing an owner receive "marketing solutions"
from a spokesperson of an "ads on the back of your receipts" company.
It is crazy to see the way companies sell there "solutions" to
companies. First of all, they get a bunch of "charming females" to
call up the business and set up a time to discuss "possible
solutions". She arrives and sits down with her portfolio of marketing
tools and waits for the owner to cut a space of his time for her. She
then like carries on with this stupid thread of how she runs "her"
business to best suit yours and how every one who shops at Bruno's 50
miles away will be stopping at your shop on the way home because they
saw your free coffee on the back of the receipt. "Think of the
possibilities: thousands of shoppers will be receiving your coupon and
most all of them will view your ad. How can you not increase business?
for only $300 a month, your definitely going to make big bucks off our
company. Oh, here, don't make up your mind now, let me give you my
card thats been soaked in perfume. I'll handwrite my number on it
since its a generic corporate card, and besides, its more personal
this way." She then asks how business is going and states all of the
stupid lines like, "well your in a great location only minutes from
Kroger" and "oh, we only offer this to select companies so that
shoppers will see each ad on the average size, 3 foot receipt." As she
walks out the door, she blows a kiss goodbye. OK, thats stupid to me.
The owner actually falls for this kind of stuff?
These advertising schemes often seem to work and it seems so stupid to
me that is actually does. How could any business owner fall for the
sensually enhanced marketing schemes of a crafty company? It is
everywhere, corrupting the way business is done from one company to
the other. Does pasting hot girls with sparkling smiles on toothpaste
increase sales? I bet it does. Whats up with the world? Cant they get
people to buy their toothpaste without this false advertising venture?
I think everybody should stop putting this kind of emphasis on all
their products. It gets on my nerves. OK, I'm off my soapbox.
My math professor has some problems. Several in fact. Let me first address the clothing issue and then I will be able to continue on with the other stuff. OK, last night he walked into class wearing an extremely bright, aqua blue t-shirt that was probably a 3XL with a brown t-shirt underneath that was significantly larger. Over that he had on faded purple suspenders holding up an old pair of wranglers that were at least 6 inches to wide. He had the jeans rolled up a few inches so it would look like he was wearing capris. He was wearing black poofy tennis shoes without socks. It was stunning! Oh, this guy has long hair that never looks washed in a pony tail all the time. its nasty. Anyway, now that thats out of the way, his teaching "methods". Last class, he came in, sang a few songs and asked who sung them. After answering beatles to each one, he went on with showing us a problem in homework that some people were having problems with. An hour later, he had filled up about a chalkboard full and was a little over halfway through with the problem. He was having trouble getting through it the entire time, and several students were helping him get through it but he still couldnt figure it out. Break time came and he and he still was stuck, so he said forget it and go have a break. ok so we come back and he starts on another one problem. 45 minutes later he is almost done but gets stuck again after several students just explained to the prof how to figure it out. He says, well we need to cover a section real quick so you can do yuour homework so lets move on to that. by the time he manages the transition(this involves several jokes, war stories, and songs) he has five minutes left of class to explain. He is able to do 1 and a half problems in that time and we all leave 5 minutes late. I came out of there wondering why I even went! This was not a sporadic thing either. It is like this every class period. I found out he wasnt on tenure, so I am probably going to speak to the dean about it. It is just unreasonable the way he expects us to know this stuff when he cant figure out 2 homework problems in 2 hours. It seems like this blog is pretty much going to end up being like the typical complaining blog. I hope by writing regularly will encourage me to think of thought provoking posts rather then threads as these. There is always hope.