Good vid. 99% of these corporations are one big hypocritical animal.
Whatever campaign you see touting: green policies, charitable works, environmental research, etc etc etc is more likley than not,them trying to emotionaly appeal to customers. They dont give a rats ass about any of that.
But, if they portray themselves as though they care, their image is enhanced and therefore so is their bottom line...and thats what they really care about.
@djosephallen Do you remember the Chevron "People DO" ads? An oil company wanted us to believe that they bend over backward to make our environment pristine. Yeah, right!
I don't, but Ive recently seen a couple of the BP ads, with people who say they live in New Orleans, and the way they are trying to again, appeal emotionally by saying: look, we are people who live and work with you. We care.... Im sorry if Im a bit cynical and skeptical...
I was with Sprint and had paperless billing too. They truly didn't send me a paper bill. What infuriated me was that they charged me an extra $5.00 a month because I wasn't on Auto Payment. Needless to say I am not longer with Sprint.
haha this made me laugh, my cell phone company (here in france) sends me a text when my bill is available (online). i havent seen a paper bill or any kind of advertisement froms them for about a year and a half :-)
I don't understand why paperless billing would be beneficial to the environment anyway. Doesn't paper come from trees grown specifically for making paper? You're not saving trees by eliminating paper, because the trees that the paper comes from would otherwise never exist in the first place. Also, last I checked, there isn't a shortage of trees.
@tyrongkojy I immediately had the exact same concern for him.
You don't even need to download it. Viewers can turn the annotations off anytime they want...
but I have one hell of a high res screen, and I paused and zoomed way in. Even after several passes over that part I'm not able to make anything substantial out.
Heh - you're far too young to remember, but let's face it, they haven't changed a bit since Lily Tomlin was ripping them. "We're the phone company - we don't have to care." Yeah, sure the government broke them up. But like that pesky liquid metal terminator, the blobs keep reassembling themselves into the original monster.
On a slightly different subject. There is nothing green about recycling paper, and here's why. Trees for use as paper are farmed just like any other farm crop, or sawdust from lumber production is used. The trees grown take carbon out of the environment. This carbon is then put into the paper products. By using recycled paper not as many trees are grown which take carbon out of the air. The recycled paper as is more expensive to produce, and creates an inferior product. It's a scam.
Aside from all this, no corporation is getting direct access to my bank acct in order to withdraw funds. That's way too much control. Even a single error, let's say one zero too many, could have serious repercussions. It once took me 6 months to get a billing corrected with Qwest. I know, it's convenient, but....
Green is is one of these pathetic buzz words. Often what is considered "green" is not better for the environment and sometimes worse. Paper is a good example of this; paper comes from trees that are grown on tree farms and these trees take a long time to grow. In the process of growing they make oxygen. Tree farms are good for the environment. If we need less trees what would happen to the tree farms? They will become other farms, farms that put out CO@ instead of taking it in.
@thenamelessone83 - and claiming environmentalism as an excuse for being anti-green is another pathetic strategy. I drive down U.S. 10 frequently, and there are miles of pine farms. Know what's not there? The native flora, and the biodiversity that it supported. Tree farms are about as "good for the environment" as most other forms of farming - they wipe out the native species of flora (which also created oxygen) and create a monoculture that leaves little room for what used to be there.
@47f0 I can tell by your comment that you don't see gradations.
Yes letting these tree farms return to nature will be the best thing to do but that is not going to happen. Tree farms are good for the environment in that they take a long time to grow and in that time they take up allot of CO2. If tree farms where to become unprofitable they would be turned into other farms that PUT OUT CO2 or used for development. Either way the effects are worse than if the land is used to grow trees.
There are thing that are good for the environment, there are things that are better, there are things that are the best and then there is practicality.
Rogers (my wireless provider) sends billing information as well, even though I have set up a prepaid arrangement with them to my VISA. I don't know why they do that.
i stopped using at&t many years ago. they screwed me on a cellphone account and would'nt warrantee a bad phone i had. and when i started complaining on the phone they hung up on me. so after that at&t can go pound salt....
When I was at Honeywell I was in a work group that would often send people to Iraq and Afghanistan that gave us a travel booklet that said "Honeywell cares deeply for the safety of it's employees".
not hypocrisy, just incompetence. big corps just can't keep track of all the moving parts. My AT&T bills are both fully paperless, but I imagine they pitch to me from time to time by mail.
@PluralOfEverything They ALL seem to do it. I also pay electronically for my Comcast Internet service, but I still get a monthly paper statement, with a self-congratulatory piece f paper telling me how proud they are of being "green." I sent them an email asking about that, and I wonder whether I'll get a response.
@thereligiondelusion Well, the description that I do get on email gives everything but the amount. But sending paper thanking you for not using paper makes no sense. When you do business with a bank electronically their files are encrypted. These could be the same.
@frididjurhuus I have to laugh! The video got processed before I had a title on it. Maybe I should have left it that way. It might have attracted more attention!
good man, largo... good man.
marklethanarkle 10 months ago
@Largho64
Here's a question for you. How many cell phones do AT&T recycle?
patrickcorliss 1 year ago
It isn't just corporations, there are individuals who practice the same hypocrisy.
connerjd 1 year ago
Good vid. 99% of these corporations are one big hypocritical animal.
Whatever campaign you see touting: green policies, charitable works, environmental research, etc etc etc is more likley than not,them trying to emotionaly appeal to customers. They dont give a rats ass about any of that.
But, if they portray themselves as though they care, their image is enhanced and therefore so is their bottom line...and thats what they really care about.
djosephallen 1 year ago
@djosephallen Do you remember the Chevron "People DO" ads? An oil company wanted us to believe that they bend over backward to make our environment pristine. Yeah, right!
Largo64 1 year ago
@Largo64
I don't, but Ive recently seen a couple of the BP ads, with people who say they live in New Orleans, and the way they are trying to again, appeal emotionally by saying: look, we are people who live and work with you. We care.... Im sorry if Im a bit cynical and skeptical...
djosephallen 1 year ago
They must really think we're idiots.
MedievalWerewolf 1 year ago
This video is fantastic. Keep them honest, friend.
DEricKesler 1 year ago
Hey Largo, I forgot.... Why did you disable comment voting? Is it because of the new format?
2eelShmeal 1 year ago
I was with Sprint and had paperless billing too. They truly didn't send me a paper bill. What infuriated me was that they charged me an extra $5.00 a month because I wasn't on Auto Payment. Needless to say I am not longer with Sprint.
GoMetricToday 1 year ago
haha love the channel
cannaBcoin 1 year ago
it annoys me too... i said i want it on e-mail but NOOO!!!!; they had to send me this stuff on paper too!!!!... damn...
Massakre8492nd 1 year ago
haha this made me laugh, my cell phone company (here in france) sends me a text when my bill is available (online). i havent seen a paper bill or any kind of advertisement froms them for about a year and a half :-)
noursette29 1 year ago
Sounds to me like you've signed up for their direct debit.. but not for their paperless billing.
Maybe you did sign up for it - but it's not recorded in their database. So get them to flip a bit somewhere and be done with it.
neuronstorm 1 year ago
Amazing. And funny as well ...
It's like politics and everything else where "managers" are involved: lot of talk, no action. Well, at least the postman still has work.
drdalet 1 year ago
I don't understand why paperless billing would be beneficial to the environment anyway. Doesn't paper come from trees grown specifically for making paper? You're not saving trees by eliminating paper, because the trees that the paper comes from would otherwise never exist in the first place. Also, last I checked, there isn't a shortage of trees.
mrplow8 1 year ago
@tyrongkojy I immediately had the exact same concern for him.
You don't even need to download it. Viewers can turn the annotations off anytime they want...
but I have one hell of a high res screen, and I paused and zoomed way in. Even after several passes over that part I'm not able to make anything substantial out.
onlywhenprovoked 1 year ago
Paperless billing wastes more paper than normal billing... WTF???
OukaKisa 1 year ago
Heh - you're far too young to remember, but let's face it, they haven't changed a bit since Lily Tomlin was ripping them. "We're the phone company - we don't have to care." Yeah, sure the government broke them up. But like that pesky liquid metal terminator, the blobs keep reassembling themselves into the original monster.
47f0 1 year ago
Not sure the right word is "hypocrisy", but something like, "self-delusion" or "idiocy" would work.
AylinIsAwesome 1 year ago
not to mention the 3 pieces of mail i get from them EVERY week trying to sell me their u-verse bullshit.
styrofoamheart 1 year ago
It isn't about being green it is about being seen to be green.
macnutz 1 year ago
Largo, if you were an animal, you'd be a turtle. :)
And yes, corporate hypocrisy indeed.
samOFblorx 1 year ago
Don't forget the envelope, too.
GoblinXXX 1 year ago
On a slightly different subject. There is nothing green about recycling paper, and here's why. Trees for use as paper are farmed just like any other farm crop, or sawdust from lumber production is used. The trees grown take carbon out of the environment. This carbon is then put into the paper products. By using recycled paper not as many trees are grown which take carbon out of the air. The recycled paper as is more expensive to produce, and creates an inferior product. It's a scam.
bigboy45454545 1 year ago
Aside from all this, no corporation is getting direct access to my bank acct in order to withdraw funds. That's way too much control. Even a single error, let's say one zero too many, could have serious repercussions. It once took me 6 months to get a billing corrected with Qwest. I know, it's convenient, but....
Hope you're well, Largo :)
55ella2007k 1 year ago
i expect this scam enabled them to eliminate a few jobs and increase their junk mail budget.
floydstinkyboy 1 year ago
LOL You're a trip ... go get em!.... You need to sit down and write them a long letter.
2eelShmeal 1 year ago
@2eelShmeal On paper!
Largo64 1 year ago
Green is is one of these pathetic buzz words. Often what is considered "green" is not better for the environment and sometimes worse. Paper is a good example of this; paper comes from trees that are grown on tree farms and these trees take a long time to grow. In the process of growing they make oxygen. Tree farms are good for the environment. If we need less trees what would happen to the tree farms? They will become other farms, farms that put out CO@ instead of taking it in.
thenamelessone83 1 year ago
@thenamelessone83 - and claiming environmentalism as an excuse for being anti-green is another pathetic strategy. I drive down U.S. 10 frequently, and there are miles of pine farms. Know what's not there? The native flora, and the biodiversity that it supported. Tree farms are about as "good for the environment" as most other forms of farming - they wipe out the native species of flora (which also created oxygen) and create a monoculture that leaves little room for what used to be there.
47f0 1 year ago
@47f0 I can tell by your comment that you don't see gradations.
Yes letting these tree farms return to nature will be the best thing to do but that is not going to happen. Tree farms are good for the environment in that they take a long time to grow and in that time they take up allot of CO2. If tree farms where to become unprofitable they would be turned into other farms that PUT OUT CO2 or used for development. Either way the effects are worse than if the land is used to grow trees.
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thenamelessone83 1 year ago
There are thing that are good for the environment, there are things that are better, there are things that are the best and then there is practicality.
thenamelessone83 1 year ago
Rogers (my wireless provider) sends billing information as well, even though I have set up a prepaid arrangement with them to my VISA. I don't know why they do that.
monitoradiation 1 year ago
i stopped using at&t many years ago. they screwed me on a cellphone account and would'nt warrantee a bad phone i had. and when i started complaining on the phone they hung up on me. so after that at&t can go pound salt....
hellshade2 1 year ago
Left hand, right hand - that's large corporations for you.
thatgaybloke 1 year ago
When I was at Honeywell I was in a work group that would often send people to Iraq and Afghanistan that gave us a travel booklet that said "Honeywell cares deeply for the safety of it's employees".
maciolek1980 1 year ago
Corporations are of course a Frankenstein monster that only resembles being human
KasparHauser5 1 year ago
not hypocrisy, just incompetence. big corps just can't keep track of all the moving parts. My AT&T bills are both fully paperless, but I imagine they pitch to me from time to time by mail.
AtheistCitizen 1 year ago
Largo... you just gotta laugh it off man, they won't change.
bulbinking 1 year ago
thats not only hypocritical is also retarded is a waste of money
arga400 1 year ago
We have the same problem over here in Norway.
And then there's the packaging of some goods. It makes a pile of paper, plastic
I wondered for a long time. WHY do coke, and pepsi and the rest of the brewers have to make softdrinks so oversweeted.
Can someone tell me why there are 19-20 teaspoons of sugar in one 33cl bottle of coke ?
But then it dawned on me. Some of these giants must own a whole heap of suarcane plantages, and have to use so much sugar.
Does that seem plausible ? Or not ?
BelieveNoGod 1 year ago
Hahahahahahaha!!!
Katalyzt 1 year ago
Why do you even give them your business? You are rewarding their hypocrisy by paying them for it.
PluralOfEverything 1 year ago
@PluralOfEverything They ALL seem to do it. I also pay electronically for my Comcast Internet service, but I still get a monthly paper statement, with a self-congratulatory piece f paper telling me how proud they are of being "green." I sent them an email asking about that, and I wonder whether I'll get a response.
Largo64 1 year ago
I switched to green electricity a while back, at least my bill come out in a recycled paper envelope and are printed on recycled paper.
AtheistAussie 1 year ago
@AtheistAussie Wonderful! Maybe we should pay them with recycled good intentions!
Largo64 1 year ago
@Largo64
I recycle my paycheck to pay them.
8WholeThing 1 year ago
wouldn't it make more sense to get the description of the service in an e-mail and the account info on paper so you won't get hacked
thereligiondelusion 1 year ago
@thereligiondelusion Well, the description that I do get on email gives everything but the amount. But sending paper thanking you for not using paper makes no sense. When you do business with a bank electronically their files are encrypted. These could be the same.
Largo64 1 year ago
@Largo64 Jonathon Swift and Lewis Carrol are both laughing in their graves.
GoblinXXX 1 year ago
Largo64's webcam video September 29, 2010, 01:22 PM
Epic title
frididjurhuus 1 year ago
@frididjurhuus Oh I forgot to add: I'll kill anyone who says I'm threatening, because I'm really not!
frididjurhuus 1 year ago
@frididjurhuus I (almost) never use text writing, but I actually L'd OL!
Largo64 1 year ago
@frididjurhuus I have to laugh! The video got processed before I had a title on it. Maybe I should have left it that way. It might have attracted more attention!
Largo64 1 year ago
@Largo64 People would probably think of it as a new modern art video about robots or something.
frididjurhuus 1 year ago