I'm pretty sure there's been times where you sit and ponder, "hmm... how did that person get THAT position?". Well, I am now a firm(er) believer that it's not how smart or hardworking you are, but who you know and what (or I guess, WHO) you do.
So this theory got put into practice when I went on a rampage to become Yelp Elite before I get married. What exactly are the benefits of Elite? Nice dinner parties once a month and a t-shirt. Yeah, that's about it... but I wanted in.
For the past couple of weeks, I've been yelping everything I've gone to - good and bad, with nice essay-like descriptions mixed with my sarcastic humor. It wasn't till my friend tipped me off one day about getting people's attentions by being active on the talk threads as well as complimenting other people's reviews. I naturally targeted the Elite folks, so if they recommend me, it'll be more legit. I went on my two day spree of getting noticed and by the end of the second day, what do ya know? I get an email asking me to join! Score!
On the side, my friend, "Kim B." and I have been talking about this girl's reviews which we've been observing. She enjoys using very sophisticated adverbs like "soooo" and "super" (I personally think those are the only two adverbs she knows). There are times when she writes. In fragmented sentences. As well. When I read stuff like that, I just want to pull out all my hair and run into a wall... hard! A few days later, we notice that she got elite too... now I'm pretty sure it's not because of the reviews, hmm... what else could it be?
Anyway, I was happy to have gotten it the noble way. But right now, elite just doesn't seem that elite anymore. Well, another thing to cross off my list of things to do before I become D's ball & chain.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Pet Peeve
Everybody knows that 99% of people (excluding the ones who may be on vacation) check their email a couple times a day. For some people, their email is open in front of them during their entire work day. Just to cut people some slack, you may want to think about something and not reply as quickly to certain emails, which is fine. That's why I like to go by my 24 hour policy; which I personally believe is plenty of time to think things through and type out a response.
Since I've been researching and trying to talk to different people and get quotes on wedding things, I've started to take notice that some people simply take forever to get back to me. I'm talking about 2-3 days or never. There are some people who automatically show up on my gchat, so I know they must've at least glanced over my email. Yet there still hasn't been a response, not even a sorry, not interested.
But with the way I see things, even if they reply back four days later, it just shows me that they're attitude with responding back is terrible. And you know what they say, if you can't trust them with little thing, how are you going to trust them with bigger things? (Quite biblical, actually.) We're living in the age of technology and I have to wait for a snail mail response? Come on now. Sorry, but you've lost yourself at least $1,000 in business because of your lagging and un-courteous response.
Yeah, who's the sucker now? Zing!
Since I've been researching and trying to talk to different people and get quotes on wedding things, I've started to take notice that some people simply take forever to get back to me. I'm talking about 2-3 days or never. There are some people who automatically show up on my gchat, so I know they must've at least glanced over my email. Yet there still hasn't been a response, not even a sorry, not interested.
But with the way I see things, even if they reply back four days later, it just shows me that they're attitude with responding back is terrible. And you know what they say, if you can't trust them with little thing, how are you going to trust them with bigger things? (Quite biblical, actually.) We're living in the age of technology and I have to wait for a snail mail response? Come on now. Sorry, but you've lost yourself at least $1,000 in business because of your lagging and un-courteous response.
Yeah, who's the sucker now? Zing!
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
"Shunned"
For the past year, a married friend of mine has always asked me what I'm doing on Friday nights, if there's anything cool happening, etc. After I inquired as to why he asks me that practically every weekend, he told me it's because ever since he's been married, he has been out of the "cool" and "popular" scene. Whenever he said that, I would just laugh (while thinking he was just messing around with me).
It wasn't till a few weeks ago, after the engagement when I realized "hey, I think we've been getting shunned from casual huge get togethers". Maybe it's just a "Fight Club"-like way of thinking, but after you get engaged/married, it seems like you're slowly inching yourself away from the single's loop. No more invites to Happy Hour after work, bar hopping, etc (not that that was really my scene anyway).
When I really think about getting "shunned", I'm wondering if it's more of a good thing or a bad thing. Does it really matter? No, not really... I would choose hanging out at home in my lounge fleece pants with my future hubby over spending all this time getting dressed and dolled up and getting crunk at random parties with the smell of alcohol polluting the air. So maybe it is a good thing that we are lost in our own little world with wedding planning and the future, getting "shunned" from the singles society.
It wasn't till a few weeks ago, after the engagement when I realized "hey, I think we've been getting shunned from casual huge get togethers". Maybe it's just a "Fight Club"-like way of thinking, but after you get engaged/married, it seems like you're slowly inching yourself away from the single's loop. No more invites to Happy Hour after work, bar hopping, etc (not that that was really my scene anyway).
When I really think about getting "shunned", I'm wondering if it's more of a good thing or a bad thing. Does it really matter? No, not really... I would choose hanging out at home in my lounge fleece pants with my future hubby over spending all this time getting dressed and dolled up and getting crunk at random parties with the smell of alcohol polluting the air. So maybe it is a good thing that we are lost in our own little world with wedding planning and the future, getting "shunned" from the singles society.
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