Insecure & Angry Large Companies

Posted by Edwin on Dec 3, 2009 in Blog, business | 0 comments

“You have been unsubscribed from our email list, sorry to see you go.

This is the last email you will receive from us. We have added you to our
“blacklist”, which means that our system will refuse to send you any other
email, without manual intervention by our administrator.

If there is an error in this information, you can re-subscribe:
please go to http://alertsite.com/subscribe.shtml and follow the steps.

Thank you”

Such was the auto-email I received from Alertsite moments after un-subscribing from their boring email list. They’re not sorry to see me go, they’re clearly angry to see me go and have decided to punish me by adding me to their email blacklist. Nobody wants to be added to a blacklist, so I’m guessing that about 50% of un-subscribers are probably going to email the nice Alertsite administrator pleading to be put back on the list.

This is just one of many examples of huge companies acting like three year olds. Here’s another, but I’m sort of over that one. Or at least I will be once Telstra loses their grip on all those slippery broadband cables. :)

This isn’t the only awful company policy I’ve experienced lately. A number of companies have recently sent emails asking me to share their great deals with my friends. One music software company, as a Christmas present, sent me a $30 gift voucher – which I was very pleased about – until I read that it was for a friend. Sadly I don’t have friends who could use this. But even more sad was the fact that the voucher was $30 off something I’d bought recently.

Sadly, the world is filled with insecure people who have turned themselves into massive corporate entities. Hopefully, that will sort itself out. I’m not holding my breath.