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Telstra? You should be bloody well ashamed.

Gary Stark February 19, 2012February 19, 2012

Your client facing web-based systems are not properly thought out, poorly designed (if there’s any design at all), untested, and, to be perfectly honest, just plain crap. How you permit this sort of crap to go your clients’ front line, …

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Stupid Fucking Restaurant Owners

Gary Stark February 9, 2012February 8, 2012

What is it about restaurant and cafe owners that they think it’s ok to dictate to the their customers when it’s ok to eat what? If I wander in to a restaurant at 11am (or 11pm)  and I want breakfast, …

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Real Estate Agents – Disrespectful Scumbags

Gary Stark February 8, 2012February 8, 2012

I have a sticker on my mailbox at home. It’s very clear, it’s in very good condition. And it says “No Junk Mail”. That, to me, seems to be a very simple message. Nothing difficult about it. Nothing too challenging …

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Sydney’s 24 Hour Bus Lanes – A Very Bad Joke

Gary Stark June 2, 2011May 29, 2011

In Sydney, we have some very quaint customs. For instance, as a part of our roadways (I refuse to use the term road system) we have what are called “bus lanes”. The concept is that these are traffic lanes on …

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United Airlines Are Learning

Gary Stark June 1, 2011May 31, 2011

Too often we are greeted with bad service or a bad attitude, or somebody just not doing it right. And when we encounter that, we speak about it, we bleat about it, we complain about it … and occasionally, we …

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