- WeMakeItSafer.com - Where to go for Product Safety and Recall Information...
 Jun 23, 10:28am  (2 reviews) product-recall-safety http://wemakeitsafer.com/- Great website that allows consumers and businesses to identify recalled products. For consumers, people can perform searches of products for sale on sites like eBay and craigslist to make sure they do not not purchase a product that has been recalled.
- ONESTREAM IT STAFFING
 Jun 17, 3:11pm (1 review) staffing-recruiter-it http://www.onestream.net/staffing/- This is perhaps the most frustrating review that I have ever written in my time with SU. I work with a small startup and run product and marketing. In an effort to improve our user experience, I am the front line for inbound customer calls. We have a toll free number on our site that is geared for our customers, but the majority of the calls that we receive are from unsolicited vendors.
Our toll free number does have caller ID so I can typically tell most of the cold calls and can just send them over to voicemail. For the past year, I have seen about 3 - 4 calls a week come in from Onstream IT Staffing. Today, I had enough and decided to let them know that we do not need their services.
What transpired on this phone call was something that I have never experience before in a professional setting. Stephanie Gonzalez and IT Recruiter (and SF State graduate) asked to speak with one of our Directors on the development side. I asked a simple question "Is this a sales call?" and she said it was not, which led to my next question "Is Onestream a current vendor?" I knew the answer was no, and she told me "no" as well. Ms. Gonzalez said that she wanted to learn more about our open positions and was referred to our Development Director. At that point, I told her that we were not interested in an unsolicited sales call - her response was that the call was not unsolicited since she was referred (she does not know the definition of unsolicited).
From this point, the call went downhill from that point. Ms. Gonzalez demanded to speak with my boss and threatened to have her boss call my boss and tell him that I was turning down the opportunity for a lucrative business relationship. I understand that in a lot of instances sales teams need to get past a receptionist or some other type of gatekeeper to get to the decision maker in an organization. In this instance, our business is a small company and I actually answer the telephone because the toll free number is used for customer support.
She asked for my name, which I decided was not necessary to give her (remember Ms. Gonzalez called unsolicited) and she became upset. At this point, I had enough told her goodbye and hung up the telephone.
Since I wanted to make sure that our company was taken off their cold call list, I did a simple LinkedIn search to find the sales manager's name, Matt Hodell, and called and left him a voicemail explaining my interaction with Ms. Gonzalez and my request to be removed from their database. In addition, I followed up with an email to Matt and and email to the CEO of Onestream, Scott Woodland.
Mr. Hodell gave me a call back and surprisingly was completely unapologetic. In fact, he told me that the conversation would have gone much better had I given her my name and told Ms. Gonzalez that I was the decision maker. My response to Mr. Hodell was that I would expect that Onestream would train their representatives to give the same level of respect to the person answering the phone to the decision making executives of a company.
I asked Mr. Hodell if he felt that this unfortunate series of events was my fault and he told me that it was no ones fault. Next, I asked if he felt that Ms. Gonzalez's actions were appropriate or inappropriate. To my surprise, he told me that Ms. Gonzalez's actions "were appropriate given the circumstances and this would not have happened if you had told her your name."
This is not a company that I recommend doing business with under any circumstances. In my opinion, we are in one of the worst recessions in memory and there are too many recruiters that will treat employees at all levels with respect to have to deal with someone like Ms. Gonzalez or a sales team managed in the style Mr. Hodell and Onstream employs.
Personally, I would avoid Onstream IT Staffing at all costs.
- Investor Quick Check | Cake Financial
- Nov 19, 2008 3:20pm
 (4 reviews) daytrading, investing, personal-finance, investments, finance https://www.cakefinancial.com/investor-q...
Investor Quick Check from Cake Financial is a free report that offers anyone with investment and retirement accounts a complete assessment of how their investments are performing and generates unbiased ideas about how to minimize risk and optimize outcomes.
Cake Investor Quick Check instantly evaluates all online brokerage and retirement accounts and provides insights you can't even get from your brokerage firm. Cake Investor Quick Check takes about 5 minutes to generate and is ideal for end-of-year financial and tax planning.
- Electronic Investor - Barrons.com
- Sep 23, 2008 3:25pm (1 review) business http://online.barrons.com/article/SB1221...
- Great article on Cake Financial
- Safety Matters
- Sep 16, 2008 10:02pm (1 review) shopping, safety, recalls, blogs, product http://blog.wemakeitsafer.com/
- This is an excellent site that provides information on product safety.
- Stryde Hax: Hack the Olympics!
- Aug 22, 2008 12:27am (7 reviews) sports http://strydehax.blogspot.com/2008/08/ha...
- we all knew they were young...
- http://www.squidnote.com/tcho.php
- Apr 24, 2008 11:00am (2 reviews) entertaining http://www.squidnote.com/tcho.php
squidnote takes the concept of passing the card around the office and gives it a web 2.0 spin; this company has the potential to become one of the most viral concepts in the internet
- Highsnobiety - Online Lifestyle Magazine
- Apr 22, 2008 9:36pm (7 reviews) fashion, hip-hop, kicks, gear, sneakers http://www.highsnobiety.com/
ok. i am finally back to stumbling, and i think that the most appropriate site for me to stumble is high snobiety. for the past seven months, this has been the site that i have hit the most for the latest trends in urban fashion. although i prefer to turn it up a notch for fashion, i recently discovered that i am a closet sneakerhead and now have a nice collection of kicks. i even coordinate my kicks with my clothing.
hisnob allows me to keep track of the latest kicks that are about to drop even before the retailers. my favorite pair of kicks are the am 95 which i could wear every day.
- Apr 22, 2008 9:25pm
- i have been away for a long time, but i am very happy to be back.
- The Shave of Beverly Hills, Treat Yourself to the Perfect Shave
- Sep 4, 2007 9:47pm (1 review) health, men-s-issues, men, shaving http://www.theshavebeverlyhills.com/stor...
- bespoke mens skin care - nice if you can afford it
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