So how was your first week?
I don’t mean being back at work, I mean reading this blog.
Depressing wasn’t it.
Well I want to leave you with a little bit of positivity.
As many of you know, my Mum helped develop the calculator that is pictured above.
It’s one of the reasons why I’ve continued to use the one she gave me for the past 35+ years.
That – and the fact I’m crap at maths – so ended up using it more to type 55378008 than work out any trigonometry challenge.
Or basic addition.
Anyway, to my mates, it’s as identifiable towards me as my Birkenstocks – even though when I was at school, they took the piss claiming it was as big as one of the BBC Micro Computers we used in class.
Sadly, when we were moving to London from LA, the stupid movers broke it.
Not just interns of it not working, but in terms of cracking the actual case.
I was very sad, because – like the Braun Bedside Clock – it was something that was a real connection to my parents, so I wrote to Texas Instruments on the off-chance they could fix it.
Unfortunately they said any attempt to repair it could cause more damage so instead they’re sending me a mint condition, new-old one as a tribute to my Mum.
I cannot tell you how happy and thankful I was to hear this news.
I cannot tell you how much I love the people at Texas Instruments.
A company that makes office tech showing more heart than companies that claim to be in the people business.
They didn’t have to do that.
They could have just ignored my email altogether.
But they didn’t, they listened and they tried to help.
We could all learn from this. Especially companies who claim to be in the people business.