CellC (mobile service provider) called yesterday, tole me that I’m one of their valued customers (I could hear hands wringing in glee).
Said salesweasel informed me that they can cut a deal for me on a new cellphone contract or even a laptop (if I want).
Now, at this stage CellC is in a precarious financial position, and their service levels aren’t good anymore.
Plus we are in the process of porting $Wife and $Daughter over to another mobile provider (due to poor service levels). $Wife have a business to run, and she cannot afford to have any downtime on her mobile.
Also taking into consideration that the new SP offer 3000 minutes talktime on their network makes it a good deal, so $daughter can phone and natter to her friends should they be on the same mobile network as well.
And another thing to consider is that mobile data is hardcapped. Vodacom and MTN does not offer this feature, and will allow you to go out of bundle and incur a very large bill, which we want to avoid as we don’t need such a shock, neither do we want it.
So, I informed $salesweasel that no, I’m not interested in any sort of deal. She sounded disappointed.
What? It’s my money, my decision on how to spend it, and right now I’m in a tight financial spot, and one of the reasons we’re cutting costs by porting over.
Question from a student during today’s hands on test - Do you want us to put the share on our desktop so you can see it?
Me: No! Never, ever, never put shares on your desktop!
Catching up on this, the re-certification was moved to this year and Boeing suspended production in January for at least 60 days. They might restart production in April, with a long road ahead of them to ramp up production again. It was anticipated that it would take until late 2022 before they get back to the schedule of completing 52 planes a month.
That was before the COVID-19 coronavirus hit, tourism dropped, airlines canceled some flights and have to fly nearly-empty flights in order to keep their flight assignments. There’s calls to suspend the 80/20 “use it or lose it” rule and a couple of where’s that’s been done. That’s where they have to keep 80% of their assigned flights going during a five week period. So, fuel is being wasted to avoid having those go to a competitor when they come up for re-allotment.
The 737-MAX may survive, but Boeing’s going to be hurting for a long time.
We’re not even halfway through March, and already I’ve published 13 blog posts (14 as of next Tuesday), consisting of just over 10K words. And got a post picked up by a major community weekly newsletter (for the 3rd or 4th time now, seems like it’s becoming an annual deal)
