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Entries from March 2008

Delta Airlines Sucks!

March 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Well, before I started writing this post, I queried ‘Delta Airlines Sucks’ on Google and was pleasantly surprised to realize that my friend wasn’t the only one who had a bad experience.
Her locked bag didn’t have any lock when it rolled out on the conveyor and she lost expensive jewelery and a wrist-watch!
Upon calling Delta, […]

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Globalizing time for a global business

March 12th, 2008 · No Comments

I came across this article on how GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) should be globalized for businesses across the world. So if a multinational corporation schedules a conference between it’s Hong Kong and US office, they would stick by Zulu time (another term of GMT, often used by commercial pilots). Check out the thought here.

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I don’t want to mint!

March 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments

One fine day as a “loyal” customer (a part of the First Citizen’s Club - a customer “loyalty” program…indeed) of Shopper’s Stop (A Mumbai-based chain of malls started by the Raheja’s), I filled in the form for a special priveleges card - i-mint. The only reason I signed up (I think) was the fancy card […]

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