Alex @ January 14, 2008 | | Business, Money | Comments (0)
The one reason why I didn’t believe in sending your car (especially if it’s a used car aging gracefully) to the dealership for repairs is the cost. For me, that was the sole reason why I avoided bringing our old Corolla to Toyota even if the dealership was located a lot nearer than my trusted mechanic.
Now that I’ve purchased my own car (which I’m turning into a budget project car), I have to give props to Nissan for changing that mindset. They’ve totally convinced me that all that dealerships are good for is for them to sell you a brand new car. Wrecking your old one might even be one of their marketing ploys.
I’ve joined the ever helpful Nissanbayan (don’t get me wrong, the people here are real topnotch and are very helpful to Nissan newbies like me) and I was quite convinced that Nissan Commonwealth was the place to go for great service from a dealership. Unfortunately for me, the old, larger Nissan complex is now being turned into an IBM call center thing. Only one company owns Prince Motors (the Hyundai dealership right next to the old Nissan complex) and Nissan Commonwealth, so they had a sign indicating that Prince Motors is now servicing for Nissan Commonwealth. They still bear that “Nissan Commonwealth” so I thought they be offering the same service. Boy, was I wrong.
Here’s the story.
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Tags: Cars, Nissan Commonwealth, Prince Motors, Rant
Alex @ December 19, 2007 | | Business, Money | Comments (0)
Okay, after that brief rant, let me do something that I haven’t really done - do some commentary over a few things (just like what I really intended to do with this blog). A few things to be covered in this post - dollar woes and putting up businesses. Very, uhm, bourgeois. Hehe. Reality is, most of out concerns today are rooted in the concepts of buying power. Or lack thereof.
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Tags: Business, Money
Alex @ August 22, 2007 | | Business, Personal | Comments (6)
Recently, I received an e-mail from one Dave Barnedo, a supposed Chairman/CEO/President of a couple of startups (You have to be one if you us “my” with company). He’s supposed to be “proposing a business collaboration.” Well, those are in quotes since all he mentioned in the message is that he’s starting a call center and a Japanese language center.
I got the message through the contact form I have for this website. Headhunting via blogs. That’s smart. But I don’t think this guy is doing it smartly. A business proposal through e-mail riddled with grammar lapses. Now I’m really no grammar Nazi but teaching business writing absolutely made me critical of how you get messages through. And this absolutely sent “Wanna work a crappy job?”
I’ve been receiving a lot of job offers and interview invites from other companies and I’m not really in the job market now so I just dismissed it. I was supposed to forward it to my sister since it involved that “Japanese” catch word but I decided not to after I did a Google-driven credibility/background check on this guy.
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Tags: Business, Personal, Scam
Alex @ February 9, 2007 | | Business, Personal, Politics and Society, Work | Comments (0)
Well there was a time when I lived in a world where there’s no sugar-coated stuff. Harsh as it is, there were no special children or children with ADHD. They were all just retarded. Or abnormal. Not to be a bigot but that was just the way things were back when I was growing up in the 80s. Now not using politically correct terms is like reverting back to the time when African-Americans were called n*****s. You’re a bigot for calling someone a retard. Well, at least now, things have changed. And terms have somehow softened up a bit. And I’m all for that.
But where’s the line between political correctness and job titles? Are we all too insecure with our jobs that we make them sound so profound. Like we all want to be someone important. As the Devil (Al Pacino is hotter than Keannu Reeves, ha! - ay bumigay!) in The Devil’s Advocate said, “Vanity is my favorite sin.” Yum!
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Tags: Business, Correctness, Ethics, Personal, Politics and Society, Rant, Titles, Work
Alex @ January 31, 2007 | | Business, Music | Comments (0)
This is in line with my previous post. I love Raon (formerly called such, now it’s G. Puyat St.) and Quaipo for the assortment of cheap stuff you could buy there (Yup, that includes, in the words of the hawker, “Bago, mainit, pamapa-init, ser!” porno DVDs ). I love Raon because of the stretch of pro-audio stores located there. As for any commercial area, there are great ones, there are sucky ones.
Okay, it doesn’t take much to piss me off. But Sanjun music store can really piss anyone off with such attitudes they give to a customer. Here’s the anecdote:
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Tags: Amplifier, Business, Buying, Guitar, Music, Rant, Service
