Brevard county now has its own FloridaCreatives.com group, thanks to the initiative taken by Lawrence. We even have a logo that doesn't look like the second life logo (hah, couldn't resist Ryan.)The group is up to 16 members right now on the wiki, and discussion is getting started on the when's and where's of getting a happy hour going. It's looking like a healthy group coming together over here on the coast.
So who is it for? What's it about? The Florida Creative meet ups have really been about bringing together people from various sides of the creative field under one roof. Get together for a drink or three and meet some interesting folks. If you're in marketing, design, theater, music, web design, programming, whatever. It's a great way to meet fun/like minded people in the area.
Check it out.
Comments...
(Page 1)1. Spirit Airline is the WORST CUSTOMER service in the world!! Let me interactively give you what is going on.... It is 7/1/2008 and I am attempting to change my flight with Spirit. Just to set the stage, I am a very experienced traveler with over 1 Million miles flown. I am educated and have a Masters degree.
So the story is that I want to change my flight from 7/7 to 7/6 from MYR to BOS. I have asked and been told $90 per person to change the flight. I call at 1 PM EST. I wait over 15 minutes to get to someone. I ask for a name and he says Sam Miller. I ask why it is now over $900 to change my flight. He has changed his numbers five different times. Then I get disconnected after 45 minutes on the line to INDIA with someone who could not communicate in English but called himself Sam Miller - what a joke why doesn't he use Ben Baldanza instead as I am sure that man could not communicate with his customers either. Now I decide to start a log:
1:05 PM – disconnected after speaking with Sam Miller who consistently did not know the date system of our calendar. Multiple occasions gave me different total costs for changing my flight from 7/7 to 7/6 a the same time. I asked multiple times for a supervisor but his response was they were very busy and I would have to wait for up to 1 Hour. Finally while on hold for the fifth time, I was disconnected.
2:33 PM – after 40 minutes waiting on my cell phone and my black berry, I get connected to Spirit customer service in INDIA. The rep puts me on hold to check on my schedule. I explained to him that I just wanted to change my flight from 7/7 to 7/6 at the same time. He confirms available seats on the flight but must put me on hold to check with someone.
2:38 back from on hold for 2 minutes. Ask me about what I paid for the flights. I told him he should know and that should not matter. Back on hold.
2:43 PM back to on hold and promised he would be back in 30 seconds……
2:45 PM still waiting
2:48 PM still waiting
2:54 PM still waiting
2:58 PM back speaking with someone….. The person can’t speak English. I demand a supervisor….
3:05 PM Nash comes on the line (first American speaking person) and says it will cost me $925 to change from one day to 24 hours prior. I decline.
Now the point of this blog entry is not the cost…. If Spirit wants to rape people this way on costs that is a business decision I don’t have to like but it is there business.
I do have the right to complain about being put on hold for over 1.5 hours while attempting to change a flight by 24 hours. In addition their customer service staff are COMPLETELY lacking in any ability to know their process. This is a great cost savings going to India (which I am sure that Ben has pocketed a nice bonus) but I can assure you that SPIRIT airlines is the WORST Customer focused airlines in the world and their CEOs comments proves it. IT ALL STARTS FROM THE TOP! Screw you if I can because I feel I can.
SPIRIT AIRLINES HAS NO CUSTOMER FOCUS….
3:36PM on Jul 1st 2008 by Robert Laramie
2. (slowly starts crying)
3:36PM on Jul 1st 2008 by Alex Rudloff
3. Is Flordia Creatives a group where you go to complain about airlines?
6:12PM on Jul 1st 2008 by Chris
4. Well, the site runs on blogsmith, not wordpress, but yeah.. I hear ya ;) Maybe I'll get inspired and write something to let us move comments. Normally I delete them (it happens often), but this time figured it'd be funny. ;)
3:42PM on Jul 2nd 2008 by Alex Rudloff
5. Thanks, Alex, for the promo. Theater... hadn't given much thought to them guys. Thanks for including them. Also, writers are welcome.
You may forever be haunted by the anti-Spirit airlines folks. They are almost as disloyal to Spirit (and conversely loyal to you, their fearless leader) as Ron Paul fans. I love the complete disjointed hijack of the post's comments by another Spirit dissenter.
If Spirit airlines ever goes belly up, you'll have to turn this blog into some sort of memorial. Where employees can mourn the good ol' days, where ex-customers can say "about time!", where historians can research it's demise.
Wordpress needs a little drop down in the comment admin that enables you to move a comment to another post - just like the old forums ("This thread has been moved here"). Probably a plugin for it. I'd like to see us also be able to move a comment to a general "Lost in Space" comment thread. You know, for the comments that are wonderful keepers, but just aren't relevant to anything we've ever posted about. Or maybe relevant to everything all at once.
Now, look. I'm doing it too. I'm off an rant about WordPress. Curses! See what you made me do you foul Spirit commenter? Ugh....
4:06PM on Jul 2nd 2008 by Lawrence Salberg
6. Oh, by the way, I made that logo in about 5 minutes with some online logo maker. I'm hoping some creative type will eventually make us a better one. I just wanted to give the group some visual appeal and break up all the text.
I don't know much about Second Life as I barely have This Life figured out. But when I went and looked at what you meant, that was pretty funny. The all-seeing, all-knowing eye! I hadn't noticed it before. "Stop! I see you!"... oh well... you know how logos go. People argue over them for years.
I was just noticing the eMurse logo. Genius. A piece of paper dogeared. As if we would ever turn in a dog-eared resume. And yet, it totally works, looks nice, and then you move on to renting the PO Box, right? The thrill of the startup.
4:07PM on Jul 2nd 2008 by Lawrence Salberg