Sales overkill in the Outback
Cold-calling salespeople who bullied a couple with one home printer into buying enough ink to last them nearly 1700 years acted illegally, a tribunal has found. The Melbourne-based Corporate Office Supplies has been ordered to pay more than $90,000 to the Queensland cattle farmers after it sold them more than 2000 printer ink cartridges. One of the buyers said the company would not take no for an answer so she eventually bought 56 cartridges. The couple went through one cartridge every 10 months. But the company continued to push, selling her vouchers for a further 1984 cartridges. The company's jet-setting chief executive and owner, 28-year-old James Murray, regularly posts on social media showing how the business has helped fund his glamorous lifestyle. (Source: The Age)
Odd encounter
"I'm a set-up manager at a hotel for big events," a reader tells Ask Reddit. "I was double-checking all the rooms before I went home for the day and I went into one of the event rooms and flicked on the lights. There was a grown, naked man in the dark. He flinched when I turned the lights on and it scared me. I sorta yelled 'what are you doing'? Turns out he was swimming and needed a place to change. Instead of just going to his room like a normal person would, he chose a dark event room."
