I hate automated phone systems; you know the ones, “Thank you for calling the ABC Widget Company. We want your business. If you speak something other than the English language, push the numeral two. If you want to speak to Mr. A, dial ten…and on it goes through the alphabet. These irritating machines are supposed to make it easier to serve you. All they do is put someone out of work, and irritate thousands more. It really amounts to companies doing their best to ignore us their customers, and hope we go away, leaving our money. In recent months Cimarron County and the entire Oklahoma Panhandle have been getting this cold shoulder in a more direct manner.
The Amarillo Globe News decided we are not worth their time or effort, so they suspended home deliveries and rack sales. We are such a void of nothingness that they didn’t even pick up their racks.
Next, the powers that be neglect to tell drought afflicted farmers and ranchers that they could use CRP grass for grazing and then tree huggers decide that it’s more important to let wildlife graze than protecting a businessman that can support our economy.
Oklahoma City Weather maps either cut off the Panhandle, or the weather stops at Woodward.
Now, after the highest fuel on record has plummeted to $2 or less a gallon, the Daily Oklahoman has decided that they can no longer service the Panhandle….the print voice for the state of Oklahoma can not, after Nov. 30 be bought off the street or thrown into your yard in the Panhandle. I assume that the problem is money…we just don’t buy enough papers out here to make in profitable. I think I might have found some of the problem. Perusing the latest Oklahoman I see that there are two Vice-presidents, five directors and 11 editors, (I assume there is at least one president, but I couldn’t find any reference to him/her.) Now that folks is a lotta chiefs, and a lotta salaries. If you eliminate some of those jobs, and several million spent on that grand edifice in Norman…Gaylord stadium, I’ll bet there’d be enough to throw some papers up here in the Panhandle. If I were a betting man…(well I am sometimes)…I’d bet that E.K. Gaylord was the type of guy that took care of #1 and in business #1 is your customers. Spin on E.K.
