Re: Taradiddle #3
Awarded 9 July 2000
by The Inmate
There I was enjoying my July 4th holiday. Independence Day. We(my wife and son) slept in, had a leisurely breakfast, worked in the yard, wrestled on the bed(my son and I), talked, laughed and generally had a good time. In the midst of this day of celebration and rest our phone rang. Nothing unusual about that. Could have been my parents confirming our plans to come to their house to watch fireworks; could have been my wife's parents; could have been my brother; could have been one of my good friends who lives out of state; it could have been any number of people who I or my wife or my son would have been happy to speak with on a lazy Tuesday holiday.
You know what's coming. It was a sales call. I understand that some businesses and services are obligated to stay open or at least have someone on the premises during holidays. People who take those kinds of jobs(policemen, firemen, phone company employees, overpaid professional athletes, etc) usually know going in that that is the case. I doubt, however, that the telemarketer who called thought, when she was hired, that she would be working on July 4th. What essential item was she pushing? What was so important that it could not have waited another day? The paper. The daily paper. The daily excursion into triviality. The daily attempt to make readers think they need to know that a man fell out of a helicopter in Boise, Idaho and did three back flips before his sudden, dramatic rendezvous with the mother ship.
Taradiddle #3 goes to management at The San Diego Union-Tribune because they had at least one telemarketer working on July 4th. I don't care if it was only one. I don't care if it was on a volunteer basis. I don't care if they got paid time-and-a-half. The idea that a newspaper, and this newspaper in particular, is so important that management thinks it must have people attempting to sell copies on the 4th of July is ludicrous. It is also offensive to get a sales call on the 4th of July. Is there no escape? I wonder what they have planned for Labor Day. What better way to celebrate Labor Day than to labor? I wonder if they'll be the ones laboring?
Congratulations to the ambitious Wardens at The San Diego Union-Tribune for earning The Corporate Asylum's uncoveted Taradiddle #3. You deserve it. If you want a hard copy of this award, suitable for framing, I'd be happy to stick a stamp on an envelope and send that baby straight into your sweaty, greedy, writhing hands. Have a nice day.
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