Corporate wisdom
Sep. 10th, 2004 07:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyThe local council, in its wisdom, decided that the shopping precinct car parks were too full, and, more particularly, too full of workers’ cars as opposed to those of shoppers. So as of last week, most of the city centre car parks have pay and display tickets. It’s not a big charge – 40 cents per hour, the same as the metered parking on the street. It's been most amusing to see the scheme work in the complete opposite fashion to how the council wanted. Workers are still parking their cars in the long-term spaces, but shoppers are avoiding the short-term spaces. Goodness knows where they’re going instead. I parked there this afternoon and it was a ghost town (or a ghost town's car park). I had a whole row of spaces to myself. Did I pay? Hell no. It was after four thirty and the fee period ends at five. If I bought an hourly ticket, who'd be there to check it, hmm? Also interesting was the reaction of one of the nearby shopkeepers complaining about the loss of foot trade. A serious issue, I'm sure, for that lady, but I’d never really thought of carpet as an impulse purchase. But perhaps it is.
The phone company, in its wisdom, has renovated the phone box across the road from our house. Instead of a dark blue back with the orange Telstra logo on it, it now has a bright blue back with a dark blue square in the middle featuring the logo. My money as both taxpayer and shareholder well spent.
The supermarket, in its wisdom, is changing its layout. I don't know that the best place for potting mix is between dairy and vegetables, but that’s where it now is. The old juice section is now filled with cheese (and labelled "CHEESE") and has the very helpful sign "Juice is now in the cheese section." And so it is… in the old cheese section, that is, now relabelled as "JUICE" with a sign saying "Cheese in now in the juice section." It made my head hurt just thinking about it.
As I write this, next to the printer is a wig stand holding a donkey head that my mother is making for a primary school performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream (called, I believe, A Kidsummer Night's Dream). I think it's laughing at me. I think I might put it in my mother's bed, like The Godfather.
The phone company, in its wisdom, has renovated the phone box across the road from our house. Instead of a dark blue back with the orange Telstra logo on it, it now has a bright blue back with a dark blue square in the middle featuring the logo. My money as both taxpayer and shareholder well spent.
The supermarket, in its wisdom, is changing its layout. I don't know that the best place for potting mix is between dairy and vegetables, but that’s where it now is. The old juice section is now filled with cheese (and labelled "CHEESE") and has the very helpful sign "Juice is now in the cheese section." And so it is… in the old cheese section, that is, now relabelled as "JUICE" with a sign saying "Cheese in now in the juice section." It made my head hurt just thinking about it.
As I write this, next to the printer is a wig stand holding a donkey head that my mother is making for a primary school performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream (called, I believe, A Kidsummer Night's Dream). I think it's laughing at me. I think I might put it in my mother's bed, like The Godfather.
