John Linton
........or some other effects of travel/diet/alcohol ingestion/different culture exposure is affecting my ability to understand what I used to think I understood very clearly.....which was why Exetel was in business and how we priced and offered services. It's as though you are looking at an image through a muslin cloth that is being affected by a slight breeze - you can pretty much make out all the details but everything is a bit blurred and sometimes the blurring intensifies and you can't quite make out a detail a moment or so ago you saw quite clearly. Alternatively its just boredom with doing the same thing for the 'millionth' time.
I continue to 'plough' through the myriad details required of ADSL plan revision and managed to revise/re-instate the ADSL2 PFWYU plans by COB yesterday which I thought were a pretty novel and very good deal but which the early feed back said were nothing special and as 'ho hum' as the changes I made the day before - pretty depressing reception to offering incredibly low priced plans for people who use less than 25 gb per month and easily the lowest cost ADSL plans available from any provider. Maybe Australia generally has lost interest in ADSL via the Labor Party's scam of an 'NBN2'? For whatever reason it appears that neither I nor anyone who has bothered to comment on the new plans so far has any interest in what we have tried to do.
I will make an attempt at revising the VA ADSL2 plans and the ADSL1 plans by the end of today but I have to say my enthusiasm for putting in that effort is less than was when I started this process - which wasn't very high in the first place. One other thing I've noticed since I returned to Australia is that ADSL1 sales have 'risen from the dead' and have, at least for the few days since my return been running at 2:1 to ADSL2 sales - a ratio I haven't seen for more than two years. Part of that is caused by the decline in new ADSL2 sign ups to the lowest level per day I have seen for I don't know how long but it is accentuated by a steep rise in new ADSL1 applications. What on Earth is happening to produce that 'skew' out of the blue?
I think that all this is telling me is that I have 'lost the plot' either during my 4 week absence or that the four week holiday has restored enough clarity of thought process to allow me to see what I have been to tried to see before I took a break and that someone less 'jaundiced' in outlook should be doing this exercise - almost 8 years of 'constructing' ADSL offerings from limited options is probably long enough to have exhausted any vestiges of 'creativity' that may have once existed.
(it probably hasn't helped either tenor or the coherence of this rambling that my note book has crashed twice due to over heating and I've lost most of what I have just written on two occasions).
So - what to do - as I can't just hand over this task to someone else and say "here, I'm too bored to finish this work - you do it." I need inspiration and typing similar thoughts three times is not exactly contributing to that process. I'm not sure what the rest of the day will bring in terms of restoring a flicker of creative thinking but I have my doubts that will happen. Perhaps the best thing to do is to leave it to another day/week/month which seems the most sensible option but I really hate giving up on tasks that have deadlines and it would not be good to leave the job only partly completed.
A solution would be to simply change one aspect of the current plans radically but in such a way that it is easy to implement and while being attractive in itself to a new type of user who would see it as being just what they wanted without inconveniencing any other type of user including Exetel's current customers. I think I'll do that - pity I can't think of such a thing just at the moment but I'm sure it will come to me.
I don't think taking holidays is a good idea.