Random musings and general banter.

[Muttley]

It would still be good for a view from the channel on whether is it an acceptable and above all a moral sales technique to use the death of a partner as a reason to consider buying a weighted blanket from the company? My view is that it is completely unacceptable - regardless of whether enveloping yourself in one can allegedly bring some comfort and security to the bereaved buyer. A little like them saying buying a fan heater will bring back some more warmth into your life after the death of your wife as a reason to buy…

It's a disgusting sales technique. They know it and clearly don't care as management would stop it.

 

[Duke of Cheese]

It is that. I still hope Alex Knowles is at least prepared to comment on the issue. He participates constructively here on a regular basis and I don’t feel it is an unreasonable question to ask his views on. I genuinely don’t think he would use that direct tactic. Yes - skirt around the issue of grief by perhaps saying this type of product can provide some level of comfort and some reassurance even, to those feeling low and COLD..But to mention loss of a partner specifically..PLEASE…don’t do it. Unless you’ve lost one, you really wouldn’t be telling them a weighted blanket can ease the devastating emotional pain of the experience. I have tried to move on with my life, met a new person I have been with now for three and a half years and traveled extensively with. But the pain and the flashbacks of the loss never completely goes away. You push it to the background, but it is there and hits you at certain times and on a regular basis. Believe me…a weighted blanket would not help with that.

 

[EmmaP]

Management, you get a feeling 2 Presenters have a lot of say in what goes on within the company, and possibly a 3rd If she can work 2 weeks in a row

 

[EmmaP]

Alex tends to explain how a weighted blanket, helps his Autistic teenager daughter. Which is real, rather than Pedro causing upset.

Pedro causes upset even on here, as he either gives me a mention or makes up claims

Pedro even gets discussed when he’s not on shift

 

[Duke of Cheese]

A decent human being and shopping television presenter would generally speaking not use death as a selling tactic - unless they are selling coffins or final expenses insurance. And by the way…A decent human being and shopping television presenter should not be an oxymoron.