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| Filing Emails |
| Tuesday, June 12, 2007 |
Filing Emails
Lome, Togo West Africa
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Andy of HoboTraveler.com
I am afraid for my nieces, nephew and friends; I want to protect them from the dark of night,
What I know, what I suspect, and what I do not know.
What I know if not of interest to me, I cannot be bothered.
What I suspect I understand or know is fodder for my muse.
What I do not know, this will be my downfall.
There is the dark of night, what lurks in the nuances is not known.
There is an annoying question asked in some cultures, for example, I go into a restaurant, and the waitress hands me a menu, then says,
- What do you want to eat? -
Hoovers over the table, stands looking at me as if I am stupid, slow and need to get a life, thinking, please tell me your order.
I want to say,
- Hello, sleeping brain, wake up and think, it is not possible for me to order because I do not know what on the menu, just because you hand it to me, does not mean I know it. -
Their reasoning is something like,
- I know it, so you know it. -
I am calling this class of person,
- Empathy impaired. -
They are incapable of feeling the perspective of another person, this is a self-centered personified.
I receive emails telling me I am stupid because I use bad grammar, this is the type of person I know I can sell the Brooklyn Bridge to, I really want them in my life, close up and personal I will make a fortune.
I was pick-pocketed on the subway in Madrid, Spain, a person says to me,
- How can an experienced traveler be robbed? -
Just recently, a reader writes me to say I am afraid of going crazy because I wrote about it. This is hilarious logic and just good fun to read, again the person who will buy the Brooklyn Bridge if I pitch it clearly.
I am not afraid of a barking dog, I am afraid of dogs that do not bark.
I am 100 percent positive one day I will be robbed of all my possessions one day, I just cannot do not know when.
Enough with the parables, maybe they are parables?
I see a murky future; I feel those in power, control, and of influence will soon be replaced by those who do know how to use a computer.
HG Well and a Halve and Halve Not world, those who live above ground and those who live below ground.
I would think anyone over 40 today, June 2007 is safe, their future is already decided, and therefore they are financially stable.
I could pole vault 11 feet, I wanted to pole value 15 feet, however, I could not run the 100-yard dash in 10 seconds, I was more of a13-14 second person, and I stopped pole vaulting.
When I have, friends say,
- The studied Computers in University. -
I will often say,
- So, what does that have to do with their ability to make a web page? -
There is close to zero correlation between studying computers and the real ability to use them, there are those who can, and there are those who cannot, and I suppose those who will not.
Selling is about making people feel safe.
Email is communications; I remember having a big executive from Frito Lay Company, one of them fly to New York, for two-hour appointments people, then onto Dulles for the next meeting pound ed on the table to me…
Communication
Communication
Communication
I recorded his phone calls to me, I new my survival was dependant upon how well I listened and could perform his orders.
I had a worker Steve who did too many drugs, he could not remember anything, and however he never forgot anything because he wrote everything down. Amazingly efficient man because he could not remember and he knew it, but better yet, accept it.
I just do not know where to start and where to finish, I am worried that one day all my family and friends will work in McDonalds.
I want them to stay in the queue, as the computer world will soon prove what they can do is different from what people perceive they can do. None of this matter much, I am not going to change people. However, in an effort to lead them to the water, I think I will start to write here in this area how to manage business or personal emails for a global world, if all was simple, what I just wrote would be 100 percent understood.
http://www.hobotraveler.com/helpcenter/category/business-email
Filing Emails is not the solution, the solution is how to search for them, I assume you will not file the same as I file, we will not agree and that is human.
Filing EmailsLabels: Business Email, Business Section, Communication, Filing Emails, Mobile Office, Togo |
posted by Andy HoboTraveler.com @ 5:08 AM   |
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| African Siesta Economy |
| Saturday, June 09, 2007 |
African Siesta Economy
Lome, Togo West Africa
Saturday, June 9, 2007
Andy of HoboTraveler.com
I believe the job of management is not to manage people, however to remove the obstacle that are stopping them from working.
I am in Togo, the Siesta Economy here, they stop work from Noon until three, this almost brings the country to a halt, for sure the economy is sleeping. Hot countries live life slowly and this is good and a benefit, however the will and minds of people slows down and the desire to work is close to full stop.
I think the only solution to have a contiguous work force that actually is effective and does work it to start at 4:00 AM and work only to 12 Noon and call it quits for the day.
The ones that will not come to work at 4:00 can live how they live and have all the financial gain it allows.
The other alternative is just to work from 8 to 12 and forget the rest of spinning their wheels time.
African Siesta EconomyLabels: Business Section, Culture West Africa, Export Import, Togo, Togo Economics, West Africa Economic |
| posted by Andy HoboTraveler.com @ 5:23 AM |
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| Doing Business With Liars |
| Thursday, June 07, 2007 |
Doing Business With Liars
Lome, Togo West Africa
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Andy of HoboTraveler.com
Is it possible for the majority of people in a country to lie more than the tell the truth? The answer is no, unequivocally no, but sometimes as a rich many in a poor country I believe the answer is yes. However, then you say to me,
- I am not rich! -
Sorry, I am sorry, perception is more important than reality, and the truth is you are rich walking around in 80 percent of the countries on the planet, and in about 2 percent you are poor.
Example
Assume the average United States person earns 30, 000 US per year.
What would you think… if a person told you, I paid 60,000 US for a plane ticket to Africa? You say,
- You are RICH! -
You are rich, if you come from the USA, Europe, in some way took an airplane flight into West Africa, then you must be rich.
Example:
The average person in Togo is earning about 730 US Dollars per day.
A round trip ticket from Chicago to Togo should be about 1500 US Dollars, and wildly higher is you do not know what you are doing and an travel agent takes the advantage.
Congratulations, if you always dreamed about being rich, you can be, travel to India, Africa, Southeast Asia and you can revel in the joys of being rich. Taxis, cars, women, bars, all the debauchery and the fast life you could every want, you can be a jet setter, for once in your life you will not have to work for the man and you will be rich.
Also enjoy the good life, every person will come up and beg for money, ask you for favors and tell you many lies to try to earn money from the rich man. You will be famous, every person will stare at you, look at you and never allow you a moments peace.
These are the four major types of reason people lie off the top of my head with very little thought on the planet.
1. Lies for financial gain.
2. Lies to avoid to not be proven a fool. (Save Face)
3. Lies to increase appear a higher class level. (Not be low class)
4. Lies for protection of privacy, safety, and to remain separated.
(I am not from the USA) (I do not make much money.) (I have to leave, I have an appointment.)
Doing business with liars? Ok, who is a liar? I was a Estate Broker in the USA and I often am asked, why did you stop, I say,
- Who wants to listen to liars all day. -
Could you imagine being a car salesperson?
People think it is the sale person who lies, the truth is when it behooves a person to lie, when they believe they can say one small lie and make 1000 dollars.
Hello sir,
- How many miles doe you trade in have on it? -
Your answer is, no use in explaining, you now the lies you will tell.
Buying a home, buying a business, an the number is 100, 000, 200,000, 300,000 USA Dollars, one lie and the believe the can increase their gain by about 5000 US dollars.
In my estimation when I was a Real Estate Broker, at least 9 out of 10 people I did business with started the relationship with massive amounts of lies and slowly started to open up and tell the truth.
Hello, my name is Andy, how can I help you.
Blah Blah Blah and then I ask,
- What is your telephone number? -
The say,
- 523-0000 -
Thank you, I am looking at the caller ID and think, wow, they could be a little smarter, this one is on the slow side.
Did you lie on your taxes last year?
If the answer is yes, then please think, try to understand, so did all the other people you know, you can hear them brag about how they cheated the government out of tax money in the bar, the restaurant anywhere. I am amazed how people will just tell me, I did this and that and saved 20,000 dollars in taxes.
So how do you do business with liars? The truth is, you do it every day, all day, ever minute of every day. If the richest man the world walked into your life would you ask him for money, a small amount of money to set you up in business, or would you ignore him.
I am in Togo, I walk into a business here, I am the richest man they ever met.
You assume I cheated on my taxes, wrong, I did not, but I did lie, I showed I owed more money than was the truth, and then paid more last year the was correct. This is true. I did not want the government of the USA to think I was greedy, paying no taxes puts up red flags. Shame on me, I paid more taxes than I truthfully owed.
Lies, Business Section, Export Import, Togo, Money
Doing Business With LiarsLabels: Business Section, Export Import, Lies, Money, Togo |
| posted by Andy HoboTraveler.com @ 4:55 AM |
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