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In An Era Of 24/7 Global Communications….

….Remember to turn your mobile phone off at night, or you’ll be woken by a text message offering you 900 Rupees per month off your phone bill at 4:30 in the morning.
That is all. I’m going back to bed now to catch up on sleep.

LloydsTSB: Bunch Of Bankers

Mr Fact likes to keep a good overview of his finances. Some have called this petty meanness, others have said that he has lived in Swabia and Scotland for too long while others still have castigated his use of referring to himself in the third person. Whatever. His view of the people complaining about bank […]

The Problem With Applying For Jobs…

Is that when someone tells you by phone that, “We’d like to offer you the position - your references were excellent and we just have to sort it all out with HR.” you might feel that you’re in with a teensy-weensy chance.
You’re not.
Also. If you’re applying to companies which may or may not be popularly […]

What? You Were Thinking Of Leaving?

Subject: IMPORTANT - Increase of Air Passenger Duty
From: contact@opodo.co.uk
Date: 31 Jan 2007 15:32:05 -0700
Dear Opodo Customer,
Thank you for your travel booking with Opodo.
We would like to take this opportunity to update you on the changes that have been made to the APD (Air Passenger Duty).
Following Her Majesty’s Treasury’s recent decision to double UK APD tax […]

We Think You’ll Like Our Product So Much….

‘Bahn.bonus’ is the name of Deutsche Bahn’s ‘frequent flyer’ programme. Except (and I don’t need to tell you that Deutsche Bahn is a railway company) it’s not flying. It might, sometimes, be very fast, but that doesn’t make it flying.
As far as I can tell, every time you purchase a rail ticket, you can choose […]