Friday, November 19, 2004
UPS Worker Loves Google
Today I had one of those "I work in an incredible field at an incredible time" experiences. My wife sold Florida State University Football season tickets for the FSU vs UF game on eBay and it was my duty to get them mailed out during my 15 minute lunch run. Well, I've gotten use to going to the UPS store and these tickets need to get to their new owner by tomorrow morning. I trust UPS to get them there so I figured, what the hay, UPS here I come.Well, I'm chatting with the owner of the UPS store (they're a franchise you know) and she's making small talk and I'm smiling and thinking (thank god I'm not in front of my laptop right now). She says she was looking for a phone number the other day and couldn't find it in the phone book and on a whim she decided to try Google. Now remember, this is now a high tech user, this is a mother of 3 that gets online only when she has to. So she says "...I couldn't believe it when I found the phone number in Google, they have everything in there..."
That was when I thought, well duh! Then she says that because she was so impressed at the fact she could find a phone number in there that she decided to just search on her own name... aka she decided to 'google herself' (remember she doesn't know that google is a verb as well as a noun). Then she says something really freaking cool. "I searched for my own name and found my grandmothers obituarie...". Then I thought to myself, I work in an incredibly cool field at an incredibly cool time.
You know this woman is going to be a Googler for life. And that stuff is happening all over the country to non-technical people who have no idea what's out there. And I'm able to help those kind of connections happen, man that's awesome!
Posted By Jason Dowdell at 04:36 PM
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