Receipt Bank sent me an unsolicited KitKat, this raises some interesting questions about sending confectionery with marketing material:
- How do I know it is really from RB and hasn't been tampered with?
- What if I have a food allergy, does the sender owe me a duty of care and should therefore include a warning?
- Is it really a good idea to send chocolate in a normal envelope where it gets squashed, and melts in the heat? This happened to mine, and its put me off KitKats, so they have unwittingly damaged another brand.
- I get enough junk mail as it is, but I can shred paper! If I don't want the KitKat I have to go to the trouble of disposing of it appropriately. Should I send it back to RB?
I don't think its that good an idea, something non-perishable might have worked better!
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6. What if...
6. What if you are thinking too much?
Let the lawyers worry about those things.
Or maybe you need need a break and have a Kit Kat? ;-)
M.
Xero's biggest add-on
This is what Xero did last Christmas, as I'm vegan I took them into the guys at Clear Books who appreciated them (and the irony), at least they didn't melt.
Whilst agreeing there are worse things in life, I think it's "cheap" and when I next pick up my post I'll RTS.
Just be grateful...
... they didn't send you an actual slice of spam.
For veggies and youngsters, spam ('spiced ham') is or was a tinned meat product consisting of pork and ham meat, salt, water, potato starch, sugar, and preservative. It dates back to WW2, and was a particular delicacy of school dinners, served in the form of 'spam fritters' that oozed yellow fat.
The image of spam fritters still haunts my nightmares.
Fritters
I love spam fritters and still eat them regularly,even though they don't taste quite as good as they did when I was at school. Tesco sell a nice spam fritter. My kids don't like them, but I blame that on this silly modern trend of healthy eating in schools.
Reasonable explanation
Because your name implies preference for something other than KitKats? ;-):(
This is absolutely my fault!
I love cake and all kinds of chocolates, treats, etc. When I started RB I wanted to make this part of our culture and it now is! Everyone has to bake when they join RB, on their work anniversary, etc. So everyone who works for RB also really loves cakes, chocolates, etc.
And we like to share this... It became part of our marketing because I have helped to build an accountancy practice and I know how busy everyone in a firm is. I also know that cloud accounting and the automation that services like RB provide is going to be essential for any firm that wants to survive and thrive in the future. Therefore I asked our team to think of ways to get the attention of firms so that we can assist them, but ways that reflect RB and its culture - hence the KitKats!
Apologies if you didn't enjoy...
Michael