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The MBTA fails, yet again, to provide a minimal level of acceptable service

To: CabotSuperintendent@mbta.com Cc: <Steven.Baddour@state.ma.us>, <Rep.JosephWagner@hou.state.ma.us>, <Steven.Tolman@state.ma.us>, <Rep.KevinHonan@hou.state.ma.us>, <mayor@cityofboston.gov>, <Mark.Ciommo@cityofboston.gov>, <Michael.F.Flaherty@cityofboston.gov>, <Stephen.Murphy@cityofboston.gov>, <John.R.Connolly@cityofboston.gov>, <sam.yoon@cityofboston.gov>, “‘Governor Patrick’s Office (imailagent)’” <gov.webmail@state.ma.us>, “‘Halbert, David’” <David.Halbert@cityofboston.gov> John Houghton Superintendent, Cabot Bus Garage MBTA Dear Mr. Houghton, They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.  If so, then I must… Read More »

Comcast continues to send service announcements to wrong email address, six months after first complaint

To: mitch_bowling@cable.comcast.com Cc: amy_banse@comcast.com, andrew_baer@cable.comcast.com, bradley_dusto@cable.comcast.com, brian_roberts@comcast.com, catherine_avgiris@cable.comcast.com, charlie_thurston@cable.comcast.com, david_cohen@comcast.com, david_juliano@cable.comcast.com, david_scott@cable.comcast.com, derek_harrar@cable.comcast.com, diane_robina@comcast.com, douglas_gaston@comcast.com, greg_butz@cable.comcast.com, jamie_davis@cable.comcast.com, jamie_davis@comcast.com, jeff_shell@comcast.com, john_ridall@cable.comcast.com, john_schanz@cable.comcast.com, joseph_donnelly@comcast.com, kevin_casey@cable.comcast.com, michael_angelakis@comcast.com, peter_kiriacoulacos@cable.comcast.com, ralph_roberts@cable.comcast.com, ralph_roberts@comcast.com, rick_germano@cable.comcast.com, sandy_wax@comcast.com, tony_werner@cable.comcast.com, william_stemper@cable.comcast.com Subject: Comcast sends service announcements to wrong email address for six months, ignores customer’s efforts to fix Mitch Bowling General Manager and Senior Vice… Read More »

VMware does email marketing right

I just got an email message from VMware which began as follows: Thank you for your past interest in VMware. As part of our routine scheduled maintenance, we will be removing email addresses and associated subscription information from our marketing database for contacts who have not updated their profile and/or subscription preferences within the last… Read More »

Root Cause Analysis of my daughter’s “trip” to Newark

Aaron Cross of ThinkReliability, a Houston, TX company that specializes in incident investigation and root cause analysis (RCA) and trains individuals and organizations to use the “Cause Mapping” RCA technique, has prepared a case study of what happened to my daughter last week which illustrates how Continental should approach determining what went wrong and how… Read More »