The Official Website of Laremy Lee (李庭辉)
Very honoured to have been invited to join Surath Godfrey and Victor Chen – two of the best musicians in Singapore at present – back in July, when they recorded a brilliant acoustic cover of “Smoke on the Water” by Deep Purple.
Watch it here if the embedded version below doesn’t show:
‘The starting point was that our best managers have teams that perform better, are retained better, are happier — they do everything better,’ Mr. Bock says. ‘So the biggest controllable factor that we could see was the quality of the manager, and how they sort of made things happen. The question we then asked was: What if every manager was that good? And then you start saying: Well, what makes them that good? And how do you do it?'”
This is somewhat belated, but I’m only getting up to speed on sharing the crazy things that’ve happened over the course of the last two months.
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Back in July, I received a message from one of the Checkpoint Theatre interns saying: “A call for you came in via the Checkpoint Theatre landline – it’s from [redacted], who says it’s a personal call and left her number [redacted]. I said I’d let you know”.
So I thank the intern and look through my phone book – I have four female friends with the same name but the number is not one I’ve stored.
So I am very wary because I know none of these friends have changed their numbers recently, and they won’t be such kookaburras as to resort to such a roundabout way of getting in touch with me.
So I cautiously call the number and wait…
She: Hello?
Me: Er, hello? Is this [redacted]?
She: Ah yes! Is this Laremy?
Me: Yes, it’s me.
She: Thanks for returning my call! I thought I’d give you a call because I read your article in Her World Singapore.
Me: OK…
She: The May issue.
Me: OK…
She: So I Googled your name and I came across the Checkpoint Theatre website and I thought I’d call you there.
Me: OK…
She: I’m actually from AIA Singapore…
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Many people – because I posted this encounter on Facebook – seemed to agree that she was “dedicated to her job” and that she should be given “points for [her] effort” at tracking down a new customer.
I guess… but I also thought it was a tad manipulative/unethical. Besides, can insurance agents do this kinda thing? Isn’t there a law against obtaining information in a certain manner?
In any case, my favourite solution is this comment from a friend:
Give me her number? I have IT solutions to sell to her. Hopefully she also has friends with the same name as well.
(For the record, I didn’t give her number away, though I was sorely tempted to lodge a complaint with AIA.)