dspeakes Wrote:
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> bgriffin, I know it was a joke. I just don't
> think it was funny. And someone coming to this
> thread who didn't happen to read my original post
> would not know what it was that you "fixed." All
> they'd see is that you quoted me calling the
> people at Maritz old.
My post was directly under your post. First of all, nobody reads quoted material more that to see what the poster is responding to. Anybody who reads my post is first going to read the "fixed it for you," then read the quoted part, and then if they're confused about what was fixed they can look about 1" up the screen and see what the original quote was. As I said, anybody who can't understand what I did fails at the internet. If there is a single person in the world who actually read this thread and seriously thought you called the people at Maritz old they need both a brain and a life.
> The point of my post was to
> give the information that a phone call would yield
> a conversation with a human being, not a machine,
> and you turned it into an insult against the nice
> people at Maritz. I think it's great that Maritz
> hires people who have life experience and manners.
> You turned it into an insult.
It wasn't an insult. It was a joke.
> Don't play games with other people's words.
> That's all I'm saying. If you had simply replied,
> "Yeah, you'll talk to a real old person," I
> wouldn't have had an issue with it. But you put
> those words into MY mouth.
That would have been maybe 1/10th as funny.
> The appropriate response would have been for you
> to apologize for doing it, not defend what you
> did.
We'll have to agree to disagree on that one.
> My father is 89. He's an intelligent and
> articulate person. So are the people at Maritz. I
> don't appreciate people who think it's funny to
> poke fun at the elderly. If you're lucky, you'll
> get to be old someday. I wonder how you'll like
> being mocked for it.
I spent Super Bowl Sunday at an assisted living facility grilling chicken for the residents. I don't have a problem with the elderly and I wasn't poking fun at them. There is a higher percentage of retirement age employees at Maritz than there are most other MSC's. I made a joke about that. It wasn't a joke that was insulting. It was simply true. I think perhaps you are being just a tad bit sensitive, but it's ok, I won't ask you to apologize for that.
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