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Back from Winter Break

Wednesday - January 02, 2008 02:35 PM in

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January 2nd, and everyone's back to work, including me. I had a nice and even somewhat relaxing break, thank you, and I found a wonderful horror story to kick of 2008.

This one comes from Palm, makers of the Treo, and gets juicy when the customer is told that repairing an in-warranty Treo will be more expensive than buying a new phone:

So I asked employee C11329 to be transfered to her manager. She told me she was the most senior person at Palm. I asked her again politely to transfer me to her manager. She told me she had none. I asked to be transfered to the person that was reviewing her work, giving her assignments, etc.. I was told she had none. I told her I felt that was odd as, apart from the chairman and CEO, I didn't know of anyone in a company not having a manager. She told me she was the CEO.

For a second, I paused. "You're the CEO of Palm, Inc.?" I asked again, not really believing what I was hearing. "Yes, I am" she replied, now with a defiant tone. "So you're telling me you're Ed Colligan?" I asked. "I am the CEO and that's all you need to know."


The first comment is also priceless:

Tristan, what right do you have to complain? You got to speak to the CEO of the company! That's great service!

Posted by Peter Leppik

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