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Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by j5r5myk »

Pikamander2 wrote: post #156
DavidSJ wrote: post #67

On a few occasions I’ve called the phone number on a professional vehicle’s “how’s my driving?” bumper sticker to report the driver for good driving. It’s always a fun experience.

I've thought about doing that kind of thing but always worry that it might end up hurting them if the company has some kind of binary "number of complaint line phone calls" metric for each employee. I've heard too many horror stories about employees/stores getting punished when you give them 4 out of 5 stars since (according to upper management) it implies that something was less than perfect.

I once hit one star by accident so I called back and navigated multiple transfers back to the same call center's manager to let them know it was intended to be five stars. Everyone I spoke to seemed quite charmed as it had never happened before.

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by gala8y »

If I have a friend doing... stuff, he/she already has my support and they kinda know it, you know. This is superficial, 7 yrs old kid's approach. Plus, as others mentioned already - it's none of your business to meddle around with their or mine contact data. No, thanks. Real communication with real people for me.

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by rietta »

sharkweek wrote: post #93
rietta wrote: post #64

As a business owner, I can tell you certain letters have a look to them before opened and can trigger anxiety and “heart skip a beat.” A letter looking like its from a law firm is going to trigger concern and even calling an attorney. Not fun to then have the rug pulled out. Reminds me of the terrible pranksters who worry people and then say “it’s just a prank.”

When I owned a small business every letter from the IRS, no matter how benign, was nightmare inducing. Never got anything serious from them as most were “we’ve update some random piece of info on your profile” notifications, but still made me nervous every time.

Same! I regularly get address change notifications from the IRS in duplicate despite nothing visible changing about the address.

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by nicbou »

lnsru wrote: post #163
nicbou wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I often give drivers a thumbs up when they are careful around bikes. German drivers are especially wary of cyclists, and I'm often surprised by how constantly they look out for me.

Be careful there! You need only one idiot to become a meat in a wheelchair. It’s my personal data point. Luckily it was only very close call. I can walk, run and dance again.

Which is why I am grateful for decent drivers. There’s a reason I don’t ride motorcycles anymore though!

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by technothrasher »

krisoft wrote: post #142
Tempest1981 wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, rather dark lawyer humor, I guess. No thanks.

Yeah. It is one of those kind of things where one might think that the recipient will first carefully read the letter and then form an opinion on it. But in reality people will form an emotional response just based on the appearance of it. And even after they read it they might be left perplexed and some might spend further resources to figure out if this is a legal threat in some way. I would find such a letter in i…

It really depends upon you knowing the recipient. I've got a friend with whom, over the years, I've exchanged many a "legal" demand letter back and forth. It's a running joke that we have, and it's pretty fun and funny. But, yeah, there are plenty of other friends who I would terrify if I sent them something official looking.

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by technothrasher »

sharkweek wrote: post #89
DavidSJ wrote: post #67

On a few occasions I’ve called the phone number on a professional vehicle’s “how’s my driving?” bumper sticker to report the driver for good driving. It’s always a fun experience.

Amazing idea. I’m sure the person on the line is… not used to this. I remember one time having a super helpful person at Home Depot walk me through a home project I needed some advice on so I asked to talk to their manager to compliment/thank them. After a few minutes the manager came over and looked so ready for me to berate them about something only to look incredibly shocked that I was actually complimenting the s…

That's quite nice of you, though I don't think it is as rare as you suspect. My son works retail as a supervisor and his report is that, while complaints are the main reason customers escalate to him, he does reasonably frequently also get customers who want to compliment an employee.

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by dudeinjapan »

cootsnuck wrote: post #97
ldoughty wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree so much, but the pessimist in me says that this isn't _really_ free, and I don't want to plug in a cool person's info without knowing who the info is being sold to. If this was publicly available document so I could fill in the missing bits, I'd send a dozen of these tomorrow.

> I don't want to plug in a cool person's info without knowing who the info is being sold to. Have we reached peak data privacy paranoia? Harmless lil projects that harken back to the good ol' days of the internet are somehow actually devious PII honeypots? Why do people think their data is so valuable on its own without being connected to their actual consumer related behavior? Truly, what is a name and address wort…

It’s not paranoia if they are really out to get you.

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by FollowingTheDao »

cootsnuck wrote: post #97
ldoughty wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree so much, but the pessimist in me says that this isn't _really_ free, and I don't want to plug in a cool person's info without knowing who the info is being sold to. If this was publicly available document so I could fill in the missing bits, I'd send a dozen of these tomorrow.

> I don't want to plug in a cool person's info without knowing who the info is being sold to. Have we reached peak data privacy paranoia? Harmless lil projects that harken back to the good ol' days of the internet are somehow actually devious PII honeypots? Why do people think their data is so valuable on its own without being connected to their actual consumer related behavior? Truly, what is a name and address wort…

It is not only the value of my personal data, but it is the fact that they are hiding their intent behind some feel good wishy washy do nothing campaign that will only lead to more pollution and CO2 being released for the sake of makeing money without actually producing anything.

What we have reached is peak neoliberalism.

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