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Quality, Caring, and Pet Peeves?

One of my Pet Peeves is the deceptive advertising, lack of quality and caring, and even ethics, on the part of businesses these days.

On these pages I hope to contribute to improving the quality of business.  Caring for customers by providing services and products of quality at very competitive prices is essential for good business.  In essence I'll be documenting my Pet Peeves about business practices which annoy the customer (me!).  Why companies waist money on annoying marketing gimmicks instead of just dropping their prices and competing!  If marketing costs were cut there would be no US trade deficit, people would buy US products because they would be competitive in price and quality.

Where appropriate I'll try to identify those who are ultimately responsible for these annoying practices.  Granted today's thrust in business is to empower the individual, manager, or department, but at times it's getting out of control and wasting a lot of your and my money!

I'm a bit of a hypocrite here, one goal of this web site is to support itself using advertisements!  But I do avoid pop-ups and other bad advertising.  I do wish some advertisers, appropriate to my site, would offer non flashing ads, but they don't.

My modular home quality?

To buy a modular ranch home; that was our decision regarding improving our property we now call Windy Hill in the Endless Mountains.  When you first purchase a modular home, or any home, you tend to be biased and think you made the right decision.  We made a lot of mistakes and I hope I can document many things to look out for with your purchase.  I hope to document all the good and bad things about our modular home purchase.  Read more!

Human Resources.  Are you a lump of coal?

Why are business owners denigrating their coworkers?  Human Resources (HR) used to be called Personnel, why the name change?  A resource is a lump of coal. Are you a lump of coal?

The following pages will be added in the near future.

Deceptive Advertising; we all receive these types of ads every day.

The following ads tend to give me an adrenalin rush when I first see them.  A tax document after I've already filed my taxes, oh no!  No just a stupid ad.  A bill for a new web site I've put together?  No just another stupid ad.  These ads are as close to unethical as one can get.

CTCO, Commonwealth Telephone's deceptive ad that looks like a tax document.

ICLS, Internet Corporation Listing Service's deceptive ad that looks like a bill!