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[derien]

Well crap.  Apparently it wasn't the sidebar on the left which made the comments not indent properly.  It was the icons on the right.  Which just annoys the piss out of me because I really really want the icons on the right.  I'm sorry, all.  I'll... add a comment in the sidebar to remind you to look on the right for the indents, I suppose.  That bites.  It's just so counterintuitive. 

I'll leave the sidebar on the right because Looks To Alaska likes it that way. :) 

The focus group I took part in today WAS actually kind of fun, at least in the discussion part.  A lot of it felt like being back in college.  Listen to a lecture, fill out some questionnaires. 

They totally blew it as far as adapting to my dietary needs.  They claimed they'd find something I could eat, but they might as well have not bothered.  "I can't eat breads."  They give me a salad.  With croutons on it.  God that's fucking brilliant.  Good thing I don't have a serious celiac problem.  I guess if I did I'd get used to just hauling all my own food around with me. 

Must go do laundry, now.  My finger is hurting typing, anyway, because I bashed it on the bureau, earlier.

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[licking-suntan.livejournal.com]

The croutons thing happens to me all the time. It's so annoying. Or I'll ask for a salad with no croutons and they'll give me a dinner roll on the side to make up for it. That's not so bad, since Mike will eat the extra rolls. But people just don't get it. One thing I've noticed is that on the west coast it seems that croutons are mentioned on a menu as one of the salad ingredients, but on the east coast they are not. So when I'm back east I forget to say "no croutons," forgetting that they are automatically added to every green salad in New England.

You could have caused a real stink with the food servers if you wanted to, made them feel stupid. Sometimes that's so satisfying! :)

[derien.livejournal.com]

I don't generally like to make people feel stupid - not that I will hesitate to make a stink if it's Eor's food that's involved! ;) But I didn't get a chance this time because the people who were conducting the study brought the food in.

[(Anonymous)]

focus group? who conducted it?

LTA

[derien.livejournal.com]

Your old emp, Critical Insights! :) I didn't admit I knew someone who had worked for them, but I don't suppose it mattered since they didn't ask me. ;)

I should really try to find out how to get a job with them designing these studies.

[soda-and-capes.livejournal.com]

Gah, WORD on the crouton thing. My mom always has to remember to ask them not to put croutons on salad when she eats out.

[derien.livejournal.com]

It's odd how people have this big huge blind spot about wheat.