Emails From The Dead: The Offending (Apparently Very Offending) Philly Car Share Sheisty-Missive
Update from today’s earlier post. What follows is the email that went out from PCS on Friday, apparently penned by Bill Lumberg.
From: PhillyCarShare
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 5:40 PM
Subject: Important News Regarding your PhillyCarShare AccountRate Plan Change to Benefit You: Please read on…
PhillyCarShare is pleased to announce that we’re simplifying car sharing in Philadelphia!
Starting May 1st, we will streamline our offerings into one plan, the Philadelphia Plan, which will give every residential member access to the lowest PhillyCarShare hourly rates. The monthly fee will be $15 and the hourly rates will range from $3.55 to $8.55, with the continued monthly 5 cent reduction in the hourly rate through July 2009.
All current Basic Freedom members will be converted to this new membership plan on April 30th, when the first of your $15 monthly membership fees will be charged to your credit card.
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If you have any concerns, please call Member Services at 215-730-0988, ext. 5. If this plan is not for you, then please use the link below by April 30th, 2009 to cancel your PhillyCarShare membership and avoid being charged the $15 May membership fee.
Um, yeah, we’re gonna need you to, um, not do that. On the other hand, this really is a rather amazing piece of corporate we’ll-fuck-you-any-ol’-way-you-like doublespeak. So, um, kudos, guys. Yeahhhhhhhh. [Hat tip to The Illadelph]
April 27th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
buying a banged up 1989 honda accord, barely insuring it, and leaving it on grays ferry is starting to seem like a more convenient solution. [filed under: when great ideas are ruined by assholes]
April 28th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Golly gee, another Marxist scheme goes up in smoke.
Maybe the Government should take it over and make usage mandatory.That’ll fix the problems :)
April 28th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
“Clayton Lane and Tanya Seaman were given the boot”
(http://theilladelph.blogspot.com/2009/04/philly-car-share-shits-bed-eliminates.html)
Tanya Seaman left for personal reasons about 2 weeks before the shit hit the fan. Her boyfriend (Clayton Lane) was “seeing” some young hotty that made the once sweet and convenient working situation a tad sour.
Clayton “Egomaniac” Lane destroyed Philly Car Share in a George W. Bush fashion. After he was locked out of Philly Car Share for telling someone that was trying to figure out why PCS was going under to get the F out of his office and numerous other “little things” … It was found that there was no way to track anything that he had done. From simple office supplies to a still missing 1.2 million dollars or so (give or take a couple hundred thousand, but a large sum of money was and is still missing and who is counting?). He also ushered in the gas eating luxury car era of PCS (not very green). Both over extending and over spending PCS’ resources. More bullshit then brains.
Of course since his removal there has not been anyone specific in the drivers seat. Leaving PCS to run amok like a chicken with it’s head cut off. And leaving the — desperate, not sure if we are going to get fired by an under qualified or non existent “boss” working on a sinking ship PCS employees — ripping into each other to save their jobs instead of trying to save the PCS.
Joanna: How dare you judge me? I mean what are you? You think you’re some kind of, like, angel here? No, you’re just this penny-stealing… wanna-be criminal… man.
Peter Gibbons: Yeah, well, that may be. But at least I never slept with Lumbergh.
Yes … Like it or not … Philly Car Share is imploding before our very eyes… And it may be about time.