Anyone get an Xmas present from Google?

I got a package from them yesterday with one of those digital photo frame
things, which also plays MP3s and video clips apparently, unfortunately it
is broken :-(

It was accompanied by a rather crap Christmas card that has no Christmas
theme at all and said "Seasons Greetings" or "Happy Holidays", I forget
which.


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On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:19:55 +0000, Brian Wakem <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:

>Anyone get an Xmas present from Google?

I always consider these highly unproffessional. The sort of
patronising thing one might send to a child.

A christmas card is standard business practice, but when it's
pre-printed and impersonal again I find it insulting.

Matt

EMAIL REMOVED (Matt Probert) wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:19:55 +0000, Brian Wakem <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
>
>>Anyone get an Xmas present from Google?
>
> I always consider these highly unproffessional. The sort of
> patronising thing one might send to a child.

Notice that it takes two to tango, that you feel patronised by receiving a
present doesn't mean it's actually that.

Moreover, I rather get a nice present compared to a hand written card
which would cost Google more I guess. I mean, how many valued customers do
you think they have? And how much would it cost to manage and write a
personal message for each?

I once worked for a company that considered it funny to have all employees
sign their Christmas cards. IIRC it were well over 600 cards, and it meant
that hardly any work was done that day (and the next, if memory serves me
well)

And as I said, it takes two to tango: how many of those 600 cards were
getting read in a receiving way?

Most Christmas cards I received in the past got read once, and with a
small exception were thrown away after Christmas. A small present, often
how insignificant and small it is, has often more value, and is more often
looked at. Not to enslave you, but just to give you a nice feeling.

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Brian Wakem wrote

> Anyone get an Xmas present from Google?

Not this year, but I got a blanket from them a couple of years back.
Remember that?

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Charles Sweeney wrote:

> Brian Wakem wrote
>
>> Anyone get an Xmas present from Google?
>
> Not this year, but I got a blanket from them a couple of years back.
> Remember that?


No I didn't get one of those. Was it hideously multi-coloured with Google
written across it?


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Brian Wakem wrote

> Charles Sweeney wrote:
>
>> Brian Wakem wrote
>>
>>> Anyone get an Xmas present from Google?
>>
>> Not this year, but I got a blanket from them a couple of years back.
>> Remember that?
>
>
> No I didn't get one of those. Was it hideously multi-coloured with
> Google written across it?

It looked quite good. It was black with red stitching on the edge. It had
the multi-coloured Google logo on it.

They called it a blanket, but it wasn't very big or thick, more like a
shawl! I think I gave it to someone.

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Brian Wakem wrote:
: Anyone get an Xmas present from Google?
:
: I got a package from them yesterday with one of those digital photo
: frame things, which also plays MP3s and video clips apparently,
: unfortunately it is broken :-(

LOL sell it on ebay. Stranger things have sold there =)

I never have received anything like that from Google.
I did get this book of quotes once though... like a quote a day thing.

Yeah i got one of those, thought it was kind of cool.
Amazed they thought to send one to all their ***ociates


Brian Wakem wrote:
> Anyone get an Xmas present from Google?
>
> I got a package from them yesterday with one of those digital photo frame
> things, which also plays MP3s and video clips apparently, unfortunately it
> is broken :-(
>
> It was accompanied by a rather crap Christmas card that has no Christmas
> theme at all and said "Seasons Greetings" or "Happy Holidays", I forget
> which.
>
>
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> Brian Wakem
> Email: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/b.wakem/myemail.png