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bad service

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2008.12.01

I am blessed. I live in Japan, the home of the world's finest service industry. Where they take it so far that even convenience store clerks leap to attention when you stumble in at 2 AM.

But it isn't always so, especially when dealing with particularly large "services" organizations (especially those outside of Japan). When I've encountered some particularly foul service, I'm reminded of a time I encountered a very large dead animal.

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If anyone tells you all is lost or all is fine, just nod and move on and live in the middle where everything matters.

—Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin, Twitter