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Customer Disservice at Post-Christmas
by Charles Selden on January 24, 2015 in Consumer Comp, Consumerist Takeaway, Customer Service
Corp-Speak
by Charles Selden on November 16, 2011 in Words Matter
Business Language Translated for Consumers Corp-Speak 1. Corporate: use words and phrases without fully informing consumers, alarming stockholders or alerting regulators. 2. Consumerist: create new words and define old to assist consumers in clarification of corporate language. Corporations hire experts to massage language used in promotions, guarantees and plea bargains. The corporate concern is that anything […]
A Corporate Pincer Episode
by Charles Selden on November 15, 2011 in Consumerist Takeaway, Words Matter
Abuse Cluster pin•cer double envelopment military movement Being abused by one large corporation is bad enough. If several gang up, we consumerists are in a pincer. When my wife’s Microsoft Outlook email stopped working last week, each of the corporations needed for the service tried to send me to one of the others: Covad Communications […]
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