Oct 27, 2006

We Care A Lot

Get On The Bus With all of the predictions given to the media of humungous growth of the company, it's surprising (if not altogether puzzling) that ePrize would move their headquarters into a building that had such limited parking. Even with re-striping the main lot, the parking situation was ideal for the lean, mean company of early 2005 but abysmal for the behemoth of 2006.

Even in the summer of 2005 the situation was tight. I was recommended to Upper Management (I refuse to say "Leadership") that they park in the side lot over on 10 Mile and walk the extra few yards in order to show that they were giving the "primo" spots to the regular working stiffs. Wow, what solidarity! What example!

Eventually it was decided that off-site parking was needed. Inconvenient? You betcha. And as these winter months engulf us, I can remember the cold biting into me as I would stand waiting for the bus that would take me over to the Detroit Zoo (with the other animals) at the end of the day. Through the Michigan darkness I could still make out the empty parking spaces all around me in the main lot. Despite getting in later and leaving earlier than we poor saps who took the bus, that whole thing about Upper Management volunteering for slight inconvenience / self-sacrifice went out the window once the bus to the off-site lot started running. Wow, what solidarity! What example!

Not only did they park in the main lot, but — on those days that we might get out on time (to go home and work that night) — we got to take in the sight of a certain BMW conspicuously occupying a handicap spot as we stood in the cold and rain. This is the same spot that my pregnant coworkers were denied use of since they weren't "officially handicapped."

Rabbi Parking

2 comments:

Unknown said...

jeremy walker wrote: improve the google ranking of this blog

At least someone is taking SEO into consideration. I was always saying that our promotions should have proper meta tags to deter spiders and that Flash was a bad idea for the corporate eprize.net / eprize.com site due to poor spidering results.

More info: http://tinyurl.com/7cfk5

Was this site outsourced? There's no sitemap, no RSS feed, no descriptive Meta data, and all of two text links (one for home!) on the front page of ePrize.com -- and this is a web company?

And, has anyone evaluated the site for 508 Compliance? I'm surprised that no one has sued ePrize for discriminating against disabled users due to their image security function. Even blogger.com has an alternative for non-sighted users! Meanwhile, it would be impossible for non-sighted users to enter 99% of ePrize's promotions.

(BTW, I'm using Blogger's 508 compliant word verification for non-sighted users to post this -- and it works very well).

Anonymous said...

The fact that this company hires someone like eprizer - the type of person that would launch a middle-school personal affront - is exactly why I am happy I got the hell out of there.

People like that will persist to exist, but I don't want to have anything to do with them. blog on.