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shopaholic
Well, well well, I know some channel executives don't have the best reputation when it comes to what they get up to on business trips or what exactly they do with all the marketing development funding, but I never thought I see the day this happened. Apparently, according to my sources down the Dog and Duck, one former channel CEO will soon be appearing in court up north for a little bit of alleged light-fingered shopping....if you catch my drift. I've heard of sharing the wealth but sure this is distributing it too far...
Love online
Oh la la. Its seems us Euro-types like a bit of cyber-loving. I was trawling through some Valentines Day research (any excuse for those research bods to give us more useless info), and I discovered that the number of Europeans trying to find love online rose 43 per cent last year. Our US counterparts though must be going through the more traditional route of getting drunk in bars and lunging at as may people as possible to pick people up, as the number of them going cyber for a soul mate decreased by 19 per cent last year.
Email nasty
Apparently one in eight people have received an offensive email in the past year, according to figures in the annual British Crime Survey. The survey also revealed that one in 11 people received an offensive text or telephone message. Personally I don’t think there's anything wrong with the odd insulting email – it certainly keeps Gordon and Shirl on their toes!
Memories of a geisha
I've heard on the grape vine last week about this mate of mine who went away with a well-known printer vendor. He reckoned the New York trip was top-notch; he went to a Knicks v Lakers basketball game at Madison Square Gardens, had a helicopter flight over the Big Apple and got to go on a guided tour around a police station.
Thing is it all sounded great until he said they were taken to a rather dodgy Japanese karaoke establishment one night complete with Geisha girls.
In need of support
I’ve been thinking about starting a Dodgi helpdesk service. You know, for all those spods who can’t seem to get their printer to work, or who think the PC has turned off when in fact it’s just their screen saver. I reckon it could be quite easy, especially after chatting to one of my vendor partners, who told me that last week had some bird on the phone who couldn’t get her wireless working. The solution offered by his helpdesk; for her to leave her desk, go and make a nice cup of tea and by the time she came back it would be working. Who said support is tricky?
Beer-Bot Dave
A Japanese drinks company has created a new robot called the Beer-Bot that can not only store up to six cans of beer in a refrigerated compartment within its belly, but can also open a can and pour it into a glass at the touch of a button. The idea sounds great, but I bet it's expensive. In true Dodgi so instead I gave Gordon a tenner to go down the off-license and now he opens and pours me a beer, cheap at half the price.
Full of Bull
Full of bull
It’s amazing how true the location, location, location sentiment really is. Having the right office is an essential aspect to ensuring your company is in the right surroundings for your line of work. I understand a reseller has recently moved its offices to a converted cowshed, failing to dismiss the notion that channel players are full of sssh…
