School of Peter Wagstaff

Looking back, I am extremely happy that I only got an enter score of 89 point something .. I forget. If I had gotten just 4 points higher, I would be doing a commerce degree at Clayton campus and would have missed out on one of the top 5 teachers I have had in my 15 years of school/uni, and definitily the number 1 at Uni

When I started University 2 years ago, I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do or how I was going to get there, all I knew was that I wanted to be at uni. Within the first 4 weeks of taking the first year marketing subject at Monash Caulfield with Peter as the lecturer (and Cori as my tutor, hey Cori) I knew what I wanted to do.

Since then with Peter's guidence along the way, I have worked up to being the MINDS director for the Marketing Club next year which I probably would not have known existed had Peter not given me a few pushes throughout the year.

The university will never give Peter the credit he deserves because uni's are all about the research and not about the students for some reason. It is for that reason that we are showing Peter that even if the uni doesn't think so highly of you, the people who truly matter, the students definitly do.

Along with just some of his other students from the School of P.W. Zac Martin, Julian Cole, Josh Strawczynski and Rick Clarke, I would like to say thank you to Peter Wagstaff for guiding us along the right path and being there for us when we just needed someone to talk to about how bad some of our other lecturers are!

Thank you Peter.

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You know what I hate? People who don't respond to emails.

It is the 'new' way of contacting people rather then calling them and you cause no disruptions to them, and allow them to respond in their own time. However if I send an email about something important and it is clearly expecting a responde relatively soon, I don't want to wait 2 weeks to get a reply.

This is what is happening at the moment.

With a team, I am busy putting together a Marketing Career Guide for students, we have emailed overall about 40 companies asking them if they are interested. Within the week we got reponses from those companies that we have had previous contact and experience with, as they know that MMSS is a good contact to have to reach Uni students.

The rest of the companies? Well most of them still havn't replied, so I am busy calling them up, disturbing them, and making them give me an answer, of which being the businesses that they are, they didn't do, they simply asked that I re-email them and they will get onto it today.

Now being the nieve guy that I am, I am assuming these people will actually get back to me today. The chances of that actually happening? Slim to nil.

Why do these people even have email?

Seriously if they aren't going to use it properly, don't bother using it at all.

And if they aren't replying because they are not interested, then they need to get over their fear rejecting someone.

Seeing Green

Shell Petrol you are gooses!

I will start by saying that I ALWAYS fill up at Shell, not because I have discounts for Coles, but it is more just a habit and I have had bad customer dealings with Safeway ones.

My latest occasion filling up at Shell however, did not got as planned.

For those of you that aren't aware Shell stations, as probably all petrol stations, have different colour pumps for different types of petrol. Eg. the normal unleaded is yellow, the V-Power stuff is red, and at the one station I usually fill up at, green is unleaded 95.

This afternoon I went to a petrol station close to me that I haven't been to in a while, and there were a few things wrong. First off their board saying the prices of petrol doesn't even have the regular unleaded price, which I didn't realise until I was already filling up, instead in small print next to the price it says it is for this new E10 petrol they have, which is 10% ethanol. Now I know very little about cars, however from what people have told me, that's not exactly the best thing to use.

The second issue I had which was the major one, was that they managed to trick me into using this crap petrol. As I mentioned earlier I always use the unleaded 95, which is usually the green pump. At this station however that was not the case. Not only did they not have any unleaded 95 that I could see, and in fact their green pumps were now this E10.

Obviously I am the idiot for not actually looking at what I was putting in my car, however the fact remains that green used to be 95 and now suddenly it swapped to E10.

At the very least all they had to do was choose a new colour for this E10 and all problems would be solved, instead they switch the colour of 95 and confuse people. I am sure I am not the only one who has started filling up thinking I was using unleaded 95 only to find that I was in fact using E10.