<div dir="auto">Most companies in my experience try to pretend they're perfect to their customers. Their customers know this isn't true, because they probably don't work for a company that is perfect either.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The perfection facade is bad for business. It isn't fooling anybody.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 13 Apr 2020, 16:48 Karl Auer, <<a href="mailto:kauer@biplane.com.au" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">kauer@biplane.com.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, 2020-04-13 at 06:06 +0000, Mark Delany wrote:<br>
> Yes, maybe NBNCo should be better, but they are no worse than<br>
> historical industry standards - such as they are.<br>
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I don't like mistakes, but I understand them and have some sympathy for<br>
those that make them. I've made a few doozies in my time.<br>
<br>
It's not about making no mistakes; that's basically impossible. It's<br>
about how a company deals with having made one.<br>
<br>
So many companies seem to have no ability to deal with mistakes, or<br>
even awareness that they might ever make one.<br>
<br>
It took me weeks of multiple calls per day to get Telstra to understand<br>
that their tech had made changes at the exchange that had not been<br>
followed up with changes at the premises, and had then marked the job<br>
done in their ticket system. I can still vividly remember the relief<br>
when at long last a wonderful lady at Telstra said "Hm. I think the<br>
computer has it wrong. I'll send someone out. No charge."<br>
<br>
Far more enraging than the delay itself was the fact that upon enquiry,<br>
it turned out that not ONE of the many different people I had explained<br>
the problem to had ever thought it necessary to add my clear and<br>
concise description of the problem (and the cure) to the trouble<br>
ticket.<br>
<br>
Regards, K.<br>
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