Comments for Aaron's Soapbox

Comment on About Aaron Schaub by bibomedia

bibomedia — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:24:33 +0000

Comment on Apple’s Continuing Rise and Some Implications by Melina

Melina — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:52:37 +0000

very interesting. i’m adding in RSS Reader

Comment on IM Logging and PR Judo by schauba

schauba — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:41:59 +0000

Thanks for the comment. I suppose ethical and responsible behavior would fix a lot of other things too. Hopefully the threat of discovery will be enough encouragement for people to do the right thing in the first place. BTW, I've moved. The new blog is at http://soapbox.schaubnet.org/.

Comment on IM Logging and PR Judo by Benjamin Wright

Benjamin Wright — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:41:28 +0000

Aaron: The proliferation of electronic records (such as IM records) is out of control. More and more little records memorialize our every thought and action. As a consequence, people in professional and business life must are forced to act more ethically and responsibly. --Ben

Comment on 2007 Christmas List by Kat

Kat — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:17:00 +0000

Did you want one lump or two? :-)

Comment on My Trip to Jamaica or Why United Airlines Sucks by BJ

BJ — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:09:39 +0000

United Sucks.

Don’t waste your time complaining through their system. Send a FLAT, FED-EX LETTER to the CEO. He won’t really read it, but you will get a senior customer service person to read it.

REFUSE the offer they’ll give you (which will be something like a $100 travel voucher with so many restrictions you can’t use it.

Then, now that you have a name in customer service, file a claim in small claims court for the maximum your state allows. Again, you probably can’t win, but this will get their attention, and they’ll offer you something better, like two free round trips long before it gets to court.

I have successfully done this twice with United!

Comment on My Trip to Jamaica or Why United Airlines Sucks by Raymond Goldman

Raymond Goldman — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:27:29 +0000

I normally choose Southwest Airlines for travel
because I generally know what I’m buying. For an
unknown reason SW has quit booking reservations from
Tulsa to Boise although the flights are still
available.

So I chose to book with United instead.
What a nightmare! I have never dealt with so many
apathetic individuals in one company in my life. They
oversold my flight, bumped me, stranded me in Denver,
let 7 planes to my destination take off without me, a
gate agent actually walked away when I asked if I was
getting on the 6th flight and when she returned 10
minutes later told me she had already answered my
question when she had said “I just got here” then
walked away again. They’re ignoring my emails
requesting compensation for UAL deliberately selling
my reserved seat to someone else. At one point I was
45th on the standby list for three days worth of
overbooked flights and there were people lower on the
list.

I did everything I was supposed to: reserved my
seat, paid, got to airport and gate on time, yet UAL
ignores all that and flies me when they want to and
strands me for 27 hours in a place where a sticky bun
costs $4.00 and a Coke $2.50, all the while carrying
my 40 pounds of luggage, ’cause you can’t set it down
or the Homeland Security agent comes. When I got to
Boise, I saw another scowling face and asked if he’d
flown United. He said “of course”. Never fly United.

Attitude is indicitive of why UAL is such a sorry
airline. I’ve seen minimum wage workers in convenience
stores worth more than most of UAL’s employees
combined.

Comment on Messin’ with the Neighbors by schauba

schauba — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:59:38 +0000

That feature would have been incredibly handy. However, all the cafe hot spots would use it for advertising.

Comment on Messin’ with the Neighbors by Arul John

Arul John — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:35:31 +0000

Thats hilarious! Sometimes I wish there were something like a Winpopup that would allow the real admin to send a pop-up message to a wifi piggybacker.