Reply #61: And as a counterpoint to this disappointment............. [View All]

[rucognizant]

In my own personal life I have come up against a brick wall of corporate greed/profitablility!
I have been working on a children's book to submit for a grant, to support my time working on it.
Deadline day tomorrow.
My fancy Canon Printer is crimping paper instead of printing..........It'a NOT YET A YEAR OLD! My old cheap HP stilll works just fine since 2001!
I purchased a new compact flash, for my Nikon digital camera. I waited months to do this, all the local Radio Shacks were out of the size (256 MB)I was using that worked! Finally I had the money to go for the more expensive one I G cool right?.............
No, doesn't work with the camera or card reader, have to go out and buy newer, bigger, better, ones....... THEY NO LONGER CARRY THE LESSER ONES! Hoping maybe the San Disk Company could send me one direct........ WHICH PRE REAGAN COMPANYS DID. Customer service USED to make the business world go round......
SO I got a hokey foreign person I couldn't understand on the phone, who tried robotically ( corp trained) to take me through a lot of tech hoops to assure HER that it didn't work. I already knew that! I put the old card in the camera took the picture loaded it into the computer NO PROBLEM! Except that it won't print out Now I have to spend time with the Canon tech!
Needless to say.I am progressively for reducing the corporate chokehold on our lives and incomes!
If you work for someone, you have a different set of problems.......telling like it is from the geriatric entrepreneur viewpoint!