I’m an idiot
Why is it that every time I send a mean email, it always backfires? I’ve sent about four mean emails in my life. Normally things don’t aggravate me. Today, I sent an email to this company Jotspot because I was aggravated with their free two weeks plans.Jotspot is a wiki. They have plans that let you collaborate on publishing via their wiki server. And the plans read, try it for two weeks. What really annoyed me is, how are you going to get a group of people to even begin to collaborate and test this service in two weeks? Two weeks is enough for normal desktop software, but for a collaborative wiki? I can’t even convince 20 people to respond to an email much less test out an online service within two weeks.
Ok, anyway so I was mean today and send them a sarcastic email because two weeks isn’t even a satisfactory trial period at all. We’ve all become accustomed to 30 days at least. I sent this mean email today to their catch-all info mailbox thinking, somebody will pick it up and sense my sarcasm, or just delete it.
What happens? The CEO emails me back (again this is Sunday) and is kinda mad about the email, turns out they have a free subscription version which I hadn’t realized. Red faced now, and obviously an idiot. Damnit Joe, why did you have to be cool and email me back? Now I’ll be shamelessly promoting your company and services to make amends.
Update: Joe Kraus at JotSpot emailed be back and said everything was cool. When the CEO of a company does that, you know they are gonna be a good company to deal with. So everyone out there who wants to publish something right now. Consider JotSpot to publish online. 50 pages for free, or one of their plans for collaborative works are affordable. (even though I bitched about because it wasn’t free. I’m seriously a cheap bastard.) I’ll tell you something right now, dump your cable bill and you can afford their plans. It’s a better company for your money anyway.
July 31, 2005 at 12:23 am | rants | No comment
