Prime Dynamics
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- Dec 30, 2010
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You are watching a live promotion, take for instance Vodacom promotion, a representative announces that X had won 10m prize.
1st phone rings 10 times but the owner doesnt pick it up. (Tayari huyo kakosa) A second draw is taken, the phone rings and one picks it. Then Vodacom person asks hello habari whats your name? reply from a subscriber X kwani wewe unamtaka nani?" after a few seconds he hangs up. Someone just misses that 10m just like that! You just feel like; why doesnt this guy call my number jamaniiii! Duh! You may feel like just flying over to this man and hit his head. The next subscriber is called, and the ringing tone finds him in a very noisy place like a bar in fact. Where are you? his asked. Then he replies What do you want? the man replies rudely. Luckily, Vodacom representative quickly tells him; am calling from Vodacom, otherwise he (subscriber) was on the brink of hanging up on him. Many of the others have been more polite, most probably because the phone call found them watching the live draw.
Becoming a phone user is not just about buying a handset and a SIM card. A phone is a tool for social interaction, ensuring good telephone behavior is part of being civilized. Phone rudeness even to strangers is a vice to be avoided. Even if it is a wrong number, it does not mean that one should be rude.
1st phone rings 10 times but the owner doesnt pick it up. (Tayari huyo kakosa) A second draw is taken, the phone rings and one picks it. Then Vodacom person asks hello habari whats your name? reply from a subscriber X kwani wewe unamtaka nani?" after a few seconds he hangs up. Someone just misses that 10m just like that! You just feel like; why doesnt this guy call my number jamaniiii! Duh! You may feel like just flying over to this man and hit his head. The next subscriber is called, and the ringing tone finds him in a very noisy place like a bar in fact. Where are you? his asked. Then he replies What do you want? the man replies rudely. Luckily, Vodacom representative quickly tells him; am calling from Vodacom, otherwise he (subscriber) was on the brink of hanging up on him. Many of the others have been more polite, most probably because the phone call found them watching the live draw.
Becoming a phone user is not just about buying a handset and a SIM card. A phone is a tool for social interaction, ensuring good telephone behavior is part of being civilized. Phone rudeness even to strangers is a vice to be avoided. Even if it is a wrong number, it does not mean that one should be rude.