"Once again, (Paul) Christoforo makes it clear that only powerful people — people who can hurt him or help him — are people who deserve decent treatment. Christoforo is not a marketer who is remorseful for treating a customer badly. He’s more like a career purse-snatcher who is remorseful (and terrified) because he snatched a purse from the elderly mother of a local mafioso." -Ken at Popehat.It's a good post, and worth reading in its entirety, (duh, it's Ken,) if only for the warm schadenfreude engendered by the loving description of a clueless douchebag willfully sticking his hand into the Cuisinart of internet opprobrium.
Books. Bikes. Boomsticks.
“I only regret that I have but one face to palm for my country.”
When I read the email exchange between him and Mike Krahulik at Penny Arcade I couldn't help but think that the modern equivalent of arguing with people who buy ink by the barrel is arguing with people who get 5 digit+ unique page views per day.
ReplyDeleteOpprobrium Tam? If it weren't for the fact that I'm on the Internet anyway when I am reading your blog and a quick search on google can interpret for me; I hazzard to guess that I wouldn't really understand half of what you write.
ReplyDeleteI like it.
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WV: twomothe: The term to describe a person who was raised by a pair of lezbians. "Bill is a twomothe, that's why he drove the U-Haul on his first date with Jill, loves chocolate (more than is manly), and has wonderful taste in men's work-boots."
I'm thinking pretty seriously about using this in class as an example of PR and customer service fail (I've used the famous-on-the-Internet Subaru "smart and scandalus(sic)" warranty incident as an example of customer loyalty).
ReplyDeleteThank you, kind sir.
ReplyDeleteI updated the post a minute ago based on a new "apology" interview and my criticism of it.
Never bring a small intellect to an internet fight.
ReplyDeleteNothing at shithat's, or popehead's, is worth reading as far as I'm concerned. I left a couple or three thoughtful helpful comments at one of his posts, which comments he changed to read, "I eat paste."
ReplyDeleteI believe the man has no honor, no honesty, and no class. Which figures, he being both a Californian and a lawyer.
I can load his page any time I wish in spite of his efforts to prevent that, but choose not to do so. I don't like his smartass lawyer attitude.
Y'all will note that his link list (blogroll) is almost entirely composed of fellow lawyers, and hardly any humans at all.