Welcome NY Times & NY Daily News Readers
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NEW YORK TIMES READERS:
Here is the Vincent Ferrari AOL cancel call mentioned in the article. For good measure, here's a complete scan of their call center training manual.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS READERS:
Here's the $55 mac and cheese story, and two followups: The $55 Mac And Cheese Guy Speaks, and The Menu Said 'Truffles'
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Comments:
I think the Rubik's Cube photo should be reposted for this occasion...
So is there some kind of competition between the Gawker editors for who can get the most mainstream press coverage?
Homer,
First prize is a night of Nick Denton ecstasy. Loser gets two nights.
Saw my local news do a report on the mac and cheese thing, but they never mentioned consumerist. Bastards!
Has the retention manual been removed?
Hmm, that link still doesn't work. I pointed a few people to the original article and they aren't able to download the PDF either.
Duck! -- newbies incoming.
Have you tried opening the link through the Adobe Acrobat Reader itself?
I will upload to another area tonight as well.
I checked again this afternoon and was finally able to download it. Thanks.
"We write at least 18 stories a day."
Looks like someone other than Verizon is having probems with the decimal points. ;)
Now, you know the savvy Consumerist audience won't fall for this...
Just keeping you honest as you bask in the media spotlight. :)
At least you gave yourself a MediaWhoring Label. I think you've bent over far enough. Congrats!