The customer is always wrong

Update 1: I submitted my tale of woe to the venerable Elliot. He’s going to contact Expedia. We’ll see what happens. CHANGE-100.00 USD BEFORE/AFTER DEPART SEE TEXT RULE CHANGES ANY TIME CHARGE USD 100.00 FOR REISSUE/REVALIDATION. CHANGES ARE PERMITTED PRIOR TO THE TICKETED DEPARTURE TIME OF EACH FLIGHT. Pulled from the ‘Rules and Restrictions’ portion …


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Dachstein Xtreme Snowshoe Race

To the US snowshoe team, we’re like groupies, only with slightly more authority. Also, we tend to sleep in our own hotel rooms. Still, we follow them around, cheering, waving cameras at them, clustering around them at finish lines and in restaurants…okay, we’re really more like the media, which is what I am, anyway, and …


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Welcome to the Working Week

I wish I could say that I spent my evenings in Salzburg dining in delightful little guest houses and strolling cobblestoned back streets, but I’d be lying. I spent the week working and when I was dull witted from sitting in the office, I went back to my hotel where I worked some more while …


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Hotel Rooms

Last night’s bus load of students was American. I heard them chattering in the halls again, though they weren’t nearly as noisy as the Italians and they were all girls. This morning they stumbled in to breakfast bleary eyed and bed-headed – as did I, though not as bleary eyed as yesterday. Staying in hotels …


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Sleepless in Salzburg

Because I work at home most of the time, I forget what going to an office is like. Being in this modern glass box isn’t really much different than being in any modern glass box – there’s computer hardware and wires everywhere, tan cubes full of technology nerds in cool shoes, a messy kitchen… we …


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Splat.

It went like this: The recruiter called at about 4. The phone interview was at 5. I asked about deadlines and location and the hiring manager said he’d get back to me. The offer came a few minutes later with the answer that yes, I could work from home part of the time. The usual …


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