document.write("<script language=\"javascript1.2\" type=\"text/javascript\">function emo_pop() {window.open('http://www.haloscan.com/commenthelp.php','Help','width=200,height=320,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes');}</script><table width=\"97%\" align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" class=\"MainTable\">  <tr>    <td>    <div align=\"center\">    </div>    </td>  </tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"26795\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=cd46793f5cdbaff5df2cf7e1f02db37a&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=28\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />I still swear a pox on them.<br /><span class=\"byline\">           amanda | 05.15.09 - 2:24 pm | <a href=\"#26795\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"26801\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=b3cc949ffec8837c10debb1b8c6bafe0&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=28\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />The Intertubes are rife with stories about people who complain about a company, especially by Tweeting about their experience, and getting quick responses.  Dell had been trolling the 'net for bad customer experiences for years, trying to do what they can to minimize such damage.<br /><span class=\"byline\">           Spamboy | <a href=\"http://www.spamboy.com\" title=\"http://www.spamboy.com\">Homepage</a> | 05.15.09 - 4:08 pm | <a href=\"#26801\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"26871\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=d204cff80b364a6817455c499a5ada18&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=28\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />What the hell happened to your American Idol overviews last week when Chris overturned the cart and going into this, the end game?<br /><span class=\"byline\">           Rawlins | 05.18.09 - 12:36 am | <a href=\"#26871\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"26882\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=cd46793f5cdbaff5df2cf7e1f02db37a&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=28\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />Yeah, Bethany, BRING BACK the Idol reviews, and cute recipes...you have a following.<br><br>I think Adam is too freaky to win.  Unless, you're into that kind of thing.  I don't judge, I just make bail.<br /><span class=\"byline\">           amandakins | 05.18.09 - 11:47 am | <a href=\"#26882\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"28498\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=42d583b291ad4fb4c77184c0bfd23d69&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=28\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />Funny you should mention this--or did you cause the cascade of problems by commenting in the first place? ;D<br><br>A recent TXU double billing mistake many people suffered coupled with a little Bangalore customer service lie--that the TXU system could in fact generate a corrected bill when it helplessly could and still can not--led to a disconnect notice and near disconnection for a faithfully paying customer of 20-odd years.<br><br>The only reasons for this are inept internal control practices (a system hostage to software which cannot generate a bill for payment upon demand) and impossible to communicate with customer service.<br><br>While TXU Customer Service technically speaks English, it is the strange, autistic English of a Samuel Beckett monologue, great looping flights of pointless syntax launched of their own accord with respect to nothing in particular, responding to nothing in particular, particularly nothing in particular the customer might have said, before collapsing back into themselves like the graceful fall of a leaping humpback whale, or of a solar flare rejoining its home in the Sun, or of the neck of a Klein bottle, twisting through unknowable topological dimensions before finally fusing with its own narcissistic belly.<br><br>In one strange, casual moment of eagerly craning its pointy little customer service head into the path of a speeding bus TXU destroyed a loyal 20-year customer relationship.<br><br>For what?<br /><span class=\"byline\">           Earl | 06.27.09 - 6:04 pm | <a href=\"#28498\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr>    <td class=\"InputCell\">                  <br /><div style=\"margin: 0 auto; width: 278px;\"><a href=\"http://www.cnet.com/html/ww/100/2009/poll/infrastructure.html?tag=mncol\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http://www.haloscan.com/images/webwarebanner.png\" width=\"278\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\"/></a></div><br /><div id=\"newcomment\"></div><form method=\"post\" name=\"addComment\" action=\"http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bethanymanderson/7960679991410955553/\" target=\"_self\">        <p>    Name: <br />          <input name=\"name\" type=\"text\" size=\"38\" value=\"\" /><br />          Email:<br />          <input name=\"email\" type=\"text\" size=\"38\" value=\"\" /><br />          URL: <br />          <input name=\"url\" type=\"text\" size=\"38\" value=\"\" /><br />          Comment:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"javascript:emo_pop()\" title=\"Smiley and tag help\" target=\"_self\">?</a>&nbsp;<br />          <textarea name=\"addMessage\" rows=\"12\" cols=\"38\"></textarea><br /><input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"subscribe\" id=\"subscribe\" value=\"1\" /><label for=\"subscribe\">Notify me of followup comments via email</label>        </p>        <p class=\"PSubmit\"><input name=\"submit\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Publish\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"SubmitButton\" />&nbsp;<input name=\"previewMessage\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Preview\" class=\"SubmitButton\" />        </p>      <input type='hidden' name='user' value='bethanymanderson' /><input type='hidden' name='comment' value='7960679991410955553' /></form>    </td></tr>  <tr>    <td><p align=\"center\">        Commenting by <a href=\"http://www.haloscan.com/\" target=\"_blank\">HaloScan</a></p>      </td>  </tr></table><img src=\"http://c5.statcounter.com/counter.php?sc_project=561713&amp;java=0&amp;security=01eeff58\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" /></body>");