• A monochrome photograph of a mobile coffee shop built into a VW traveller. The side of the VW opens upwards and customers are standing ordering drinks. Copyright Urban Camera.
    Commentary,  Life

    Whatever Happened To Customer Service?

    Anyone who has read my social media account, although it mainly concentrates on travel and photography or literature, will know that I have an interest in Customer Service. In truth, it is not so much about customer service, and more about the lack of services, and the lack of personal interest. Companies who rest their entire help or information system on Artificial Intelligence, for example, and thereby frustrate and alienate their customer base are a prime example, but also in those areas where such interaction isn’t possible, but the service is failing anyway through a lack of interest and training. I recently had cause to open a new bank account…

  • An older person sitting on a concrete bench in the shade, looking at his mobile phone, being watched by a second person. Copyright Urban Camera 2024
    Commentary,  Life

    Dinosaur: Your Time Has Long Gone

    I’ve never considered myself to be old, at least, not until the doctors starting telling me I really needed to lie down on the operating table and have a few things done to keep the old pump beating. And, to a certain extent, I still do not consider myself to be old despite what others might claim: I have been referred to as Grandpa, and the Old Man by various people, although I have tried to appear as if they couldn’t have been referring to me, and simply gone on my way. When it comes to technology, though, and the advances in computers and telecommunications, well, let me tell you…

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