Free Speech RANT . . . SamKat

Free Speech Concerning Telephone Usage

And

Customer Service

By

Sam Kat aka Sam Kegley

This is a RANT!

Telephone usage has to have greatly expanded all over this world during the last fifty years. 

My greatest American President is Ronald Reagan, but I must disagree with his moves to dismantle the giant Bell Telephone conglomerate.  Their expertise was much too watered down in the process of their dismantelling.

Service has deteriorated and the cell phone usage is useful but many times less accessible.

The Bell Telephone Labs could have served us all so much better IMHO (In MY Honest Opinion_- old internet jargon)!

White Page and Yellow Page Directories are rare except for the internet and those ‘services’ all want to charge, not just once, but forever!

Timeliness is even more urgent in today’s world, but calling and getting a “Telephone system” answer is so disheartening.  It might not be so bad if they had a very few choices to get you to a live human being; however, ‘hold’ is often not a short time suggestion!

Companies believe they have saved so much without the operators whom Robert Townsend, once the president of Avis – “We Try Harder” touted so highly in his “Up the Organization” book.  Ben Franklin had a saying often repeated – ‘Penny wise and pound Foolish’.  So apropos about my RANT here!

We elder ex-industrial people expect better!

Customer service for all organizations is even poorer.  We customers of any product or service expect:

Price

Delivery

Quality

Service

When we can we go to a store and pick out our item with on the spot price and delivery.  When the quality or the service deteriorates anywhere, we quit buying the [product or service from that source, many times permanently!

My humble advice for operations is:  “If you offer a product or service do it with INTEGRITY for your best future existence.” 

Beginning NOW would only be wonderful . . .

Canada and Australia speak more freely than USA citizens ... Thx Paul C!

  

Pork on menus... Quebec 

  

  

I wonder how many years (hundreds for sure) that Jewish people have lived in Quebec.  I don't believe that they have ever demanded that pork be removed from the school's menu where their children attend.  

  

Excellent reply by the Mayor of Quebec to the " demands " of the Muslim population in his community.  You see, Muslim parents demanded the abolition of pork in all the school canteens of a Montreal suburb. 

  

Well, as the commercial promoting pork in Quebec says “put some pork on your fork,” so t he mayor of the Montreal suburb of Dorval has refused and the town clerk sent a note to all parents to explain why...  Or  MAYOR REFUSES TO REMOVE PORK FROM SCHOOL CANTEEN MENU. EXPLAINS WHY   Let's hear it for a Quebec mayor. 

“Muslims must understand that they have to adapt to Canada and Quebec, its customs, its traditions, its way of life, because that's where they chose to immigrate. 

 

“They must understand that they have to integrate and learn to live in Quebec. 

 

“They must understand that it is for them to change their lifestyle, not the Canadians who so generously welcomed them. 

 

“They must understand that Canadians are neither racist nor xenophobic, they accepted many immigrants before Muslims (whereas the reverse is not true, in that Muslim states do not accept non-Muslim immigrants). 

  

“ That no more than other nations, Canadians are not willing to give up their identity, their culture . 

 

“And if Canada is a land of welcome, it's not the Mayor of Dorval who welcomes foreigners, but the Canadian-Quebecois people as a whole. 

 

“Finally, they must understand that in Canada (Quebec) with its Judeo-Christian roots, Christmas trees, churches and religious festivals, religion must remain in the private domain. 

 

The municipality of Dorval was right to refuse any concessions to Islam and Sharia. 

 

“For Muslims who disagree with secularism and do not feel comfortable in Canada, there are 57 beautiful Muslim countries in the world, most of them under-populated and ready to receive them with open halal arms in accordance with Shariah".  

  

“If you left your country for Canada and not for other Muslim countries, it is because you have considered that life is better in Canada than elsewhere". 

 

“Ask yourself the question, just once, “Why is it better here in Canada than where you come from?” 

“A canteen with pork is part of the answer.” 

 

SO, put some pork on your fork.   Too bad the USA doesn’t have the common sense to publish this nationwide .  It should also be posted on signs all along the U.S. borders. 

  

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