Where Should The Consumerist Customer Service Story Slam Meet?
I'm thinking about hosting a Consumerist meetup where readers get up and slam their funniest, craziest, most cringe-inducing customer service stories, sort of a Moth meets Consumerist event. We'll stick with our hometown of New York, but now, the age-old question, which borough?
Leave your venue suggestions in the comments.
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Honestly, Either one is a perfectly valid choice. If you can get to Manhattan you can probably figure out how to get to Brooklyn. However, I can get to Manhattan much faster and with fewer trains/subways so my vote went to Manhattan. All that to say, the chances of me finding the time to go into the city this summer are very small so maybe my vote should not count at all.
Why hath thou forsaken Chicago?
Ooh! Look at those options. So what is this, either we pick a meetup at Ben's place or Meg's place?
Peculiar. Missouri!
Intercourse, PA!
I think I'll suggest that Wonkette hold a party on the same day just so us DC folks feel like we belong somewhere.
Philadelphia. We suck badly enough, so there's got to be some bad customer service gems here. :-)
Los Angeles.
Kettle of Fish in the w. village?
Portland, OR.... Let's be bi-coastal.
hmm... my avatar reverted to a pic from six month ago. wtf?
Manhattan. Because of the better public transportation options, you are more likely to get people from all 5 boroughs and New Jersey.
I'll come.
Blackdog:
Agreed, we get no love here in D.C.
Can I tell stories about how awful consumers are and if I ran a company, I'd be hard pressed to be a "kind company" too?
@dmuth: And the worst airport for luggage. Heck, that could be made into a game for the meetup "Guess how many attendants lost their luggage traveling to Philly"
so...there's only 2 boroughs in ny now?
i vote hookah bar in queens. absent of that, i guess brooklyn - i can't afford to party in manhattan anymore.
"Why aren't you coming to My City?"
Well the only gatget mecca in NYC is either the apple store on 5th ave or the one in soho..... and im not even an apple fanboy
Maybee union square... we can all drink and play hackey sack...
Maybee... the closed shar[er image store in Rock Center?
Uhh... If you wanna do Brooklyn, you can be like Giz and go to a cyclones game.
Chicago! Come think of ways we might screw ourselves over by trying to host the Olympics!
Brooklyn Heights. Only if it's held at Garibaldi's. Because otherwise, what's the point of living?
Or Manhattan. Because the world needs another excuse to wear black.
(sobbing quietly to self over the lack of decent pizza on the West Coast)
With all the airline stories lately, it should be held in queens home to both of NYC's airports.
This will be excellent if we hear about bad service at the location chosen via consensus. I can't wait to blame the OP.
Come to Reno. C'mon... if it's good enough for the National Super Institute Convention and The Tick, it's good enough for Consumeristsophiles.
Great idea. I vote for uptown (preferably on the west side), but I'll do my best to join you wherever you do it!
Dude, why is Queens always the ignored borough?
You never even considered Jersey City did you?
Have it at the same time as the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Westchester?
I fear meeting more than a couple of the commenters on this blog.
1500 votes for option three show the deep love Consumerist users have for sarcastic pole options. Hmm, I can't go but I do love pushing buttons. . .
I don't understand, where are these boroughs in Liberty City?
There is at least one other commenter here from Birmingham, so I think our fair city should be considered. Come on, Ben. I'll take you out for BBQ and cheese biscuits if you come here! I'll even throw in some grits!
Wow- what fantastic choices- this is applicable to what percentage of your readers?
You could at least call it East Coast Consumerist Customer Service Story Slam Meet - give the folks in San Francisco something to look forward to.
@JeffM: The US recently legalized Absenthe after nearly one hundred years. Yet San Francisco wants even more?!
I couldn't go to any of them, but I think its a great idea, providing its recorded for us poor denizens to watch!!
On the glass floor of the CN Tower in Toronto. (Secret password: say toronto like the locals: TAH-RA'-NAH)
In the immortal words of Tina Fey: "I'm 37 years old. Don't make me go to Brooklyn."
How 'bout my hometown in Queens?
(Dead silence)
...Manhattan it is.
@highmodulus: That, and many Consumerist readers are outside of New York (which, contrary to popular belief, is not the center of the universe).
I'm casting my write-in vote for somewhere in the mid-continent region. Think KC, Omaha, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Wichita, etc. Centrally located; inexpensive lodging; out of earshot from the mega corporations we'll be roasting....
How about a Best Buy?
Us LI'ers always have to hop on the 'Iron Horse' AKA the LIRR for a meet up (pout). I guess there's no chance of picking a spot in Penn Station? I mean, aren't the hot dogs still 99 cents? Hell-o! That leaves more money for drinks ;)
Come to Charleston SC, god what a cool town. You would love it!
SAN. DIEGO. DO IT.