Rogers and Me
Whenever I think of Rogers, I wonder where the hell the expression "Corporate Citizen" came from because a corporation is not a citizen and Rogers should be ample proof of that fact.
But anyway, Rogers has some sort of supposed goodwill advertisement on television right now featuring a little girl sitting on a swing in a playground being video-taped by a man, who, the ominous words on the screen advise us - is not her father. Oh. Okay. So it's the local playground paedophile. Gotcha. Then the scroll at the bottom says something about children going missing every day.
Except that they don't. Children in Canada do NOT go missing every day. In fact, it's quite rare that a child goes missing in this country. So rare that it's a really big news story when it happens. It's awful when it happens, but thankfully, it almost never does or we'd have to listen to pundits like Michael Coren go on and on about how it did because of what she was wearing.
So what's with the constant fear-mongering to parents that they mustn't let their children out of their sight for a second lest some lurking paedophile happen by to rape and murder them? And why Rogers? Is this annoying company, famous for its negative billing practices, warning us to keep our children close in hopes that we'll buy one of its over-priced cable/internet/phone packages out of fear, that only if we keep our kids close to home watching television will they be safe? What else could possibly be its point in coming up with such an egregiously false advertising campaign?
Further, does anybody know how to get Rogers to refrain from stuffing my mailbox every frickin' day with its cultlike insistence that I subscribe to its cell phone service? If I wanted a cell phone, Rogers, I'd get one. Except I wouldn't get one from you, even if you were the last phone company on earth. That's because I have two of your other services. I mean, I don't want to hurt your feelings (oh wait, corporations don't have feelings) but you suck. Now leave me alone, please - except when I want technical support.
You are not a citizen. You are a corporation. And you're not fooling anyone.
