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    I snapped back, “That’s not my job!”

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    Then, happily, you’re jolted back to reality, as I was today, entering a taxi at the Las Vegas airport. I thought this ride was going to be, at worst, routine. I gave the address to the driver, which is Wynn Road. I assumed it is well known; named after Steve Wynn, whose hotels, past, present and future are sprinkled everywhere in this desert oasis.

    I also hinted to the cabbie that the place was near two major intersections. To me, that level of specificity is as good as a global positioning printout, but not to my driver.

    He grunted, “I’m not sure where that is.”

    Next, he started handing me a Thomas Guide and asked, “You wanna look it up?

    My golly, Captain Kirk, who am I; Mr. Sulu, your navigator?

    I snapped back, “That’s not my job!”

    He snickered, and found a way of fingering through his own guide en route to get us to my destination.

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    bitten street vendors and ballpark peanut hurlers become gentle lambs, nuzzling and comforting us as they never did before.

    Then, happily, you’re jolted back to reality, as I was today, entering a taxi at the Las Vegas airport. I thought this ride was going to be, at worst, routine. I gave the address to the driver, which is Wynn Road. I assumed it is well known; named after Steve Wynn, whose hotels, past, present and future are sprinkled everywhere in this desert oasis.

    I also hinted to the cabbie that the place was near two major intersections. To me, that level of specificity is as good as a global positioning printout, but not to my driver.

    He grunted, “I’m not sure where that is.”

    Next, he started handing me a Thomas Guide and asked, “You wanna look it up?

    My golly, Captain Kirk, who am I; Mr. Sulu, your navigator?

    I snapped back, “That’s not my job!”

    He snickered, and found a way of fingering through his own guide en route to get us to my destination.

    I know that today’s companies are trying to offer self-ser

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    I also hinted to the cabbie that the place was near two major intersections. To me, that level of specificity is as good as a global positioning printout, but not to my driver.

    He grunted, “I’m not sure where that is.”

    Next, he started handing me a Thomas Guide and asked, “You wanna look it up?

    My golly, Captain Kirk, who am I; Mr. Sulu, your navigator?

    I snapped back, “That’s not my job!”

    He snickered, and found a way of fingering through his own guide en route to get us to my destination.

    I know that today’s companies are trying to offer self-ser

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    He grunted, “I’m not sure where that is.”

    Next, he started handing me a Thomas Guide and asked, “You wanna look it up?

    My golly, Captain Kirk, who am I; Mr. Sulu, your navigator?

    I snapped back, “That’s not my job!”

    He snickered, and found a way of fingering through his own guide en route to get us to my destination.

    I know that today’s companies are trying to offer self-ser

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    y, Captain Kirk, who am I; Mr. Sulu, your navigator?

    I snapped back, “That’s not my job!”

    He snickered, and found a way of fingering through his own guide en route to get us to my destination.

    I know that today’s companies are trying to offer self-service and claim it is the real thing. They implore us to visit their web sites, to use telephone automation, too, so they don’t have to supply real human assistance.

    But are cabbies taking a page out of the goliaths’ playbooks?

    It can only give you hope if your career consists of reforming customer-insensitive behavior. As long as nature continues to produce oafs like this one, my living is secure!

    Dr. Gary S. Goodman © 2006

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