Non-killer forms kill me

Ugh. I hate forms. And a bad form is like a bad first date. It’s the ultimate in crappy customer service. Nothing like a badly composed form to make you feel a company doesn’t respect your time and wants to trip you up so they have a legitimate reason to…

Can we drop the”if”?

Sorry if I hurt you Sorry if you didn’t get the email Sorry if it didn’t arrive on time If, if, if. Usually, there’s no “if” about this situation, so why does it get tossed in? Do we really suck that badly at apologizing? Or is it plain poor writing…

Advent and Santa? What’s wrong with this picture

I know Halloween hasn’t arrived yet, but there are lots of people already thinking about Christmas. (I’ve been designing our holiday card at work.) But while doing random other things, I ran across the “Advent” calendar shown here. It’s quite lovely, but really knocked me for a loop when I…

Parking lot etiquette

Nothing like shopping during a busy holiday weekend to get me started on a rant. Seriously. One of my biggest, grandest, hugest pet peeves is about the way people drive in a parking lot. Way as in direction, that is. (Crazy parking lot drivers are another issue.) Why is it…

Think green, not pink, when talking to women

Not sure if it’s just the not being a girly-girl thing, but I find it just a little revolting that the first reaction for people wanting to market to women is to make everything pink. I’d rather have it in red, purple or lime green before I’d take pink. Andrea…

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