Sky Handling Partners gnaw through bottom of barrel
Not content with the current shitstorm boiling around them (see previous post), Sky Handling Partners have issued Damien Mulley with a lawyerific take down notice. Has anyone noticed how these are becoming a badge of honour among bloggers now? It’s like earning your bones. You’re no one until your Citizen Journo antics have enraged the corporate greedheads.
God love these poor fools, I feel almost sorry for the munty headed eejit who thought he was being a clever bollix. Damien’s original post has garnered 138 comments and trackbacks so far, he hit the front page of Digg and his website traffic spiked to 34,000 hits overnight. I’ll wager this second front opened by Sky Handling will garner a hit from BoingBoing, they do love a good ‘customer screwed over by airport/airline/baggage handler’ story.
Yesterday a search for Sky Handling Partners on Google ranked Damien’s post number two below the company website. Today the landscape has altered somewhat. Here are a selection of todays top ten search results:
Sky Handling Partners are cunts
Sky Handling Partners are screwed
Sky Handling Partners engage in fraud and libel against a blogger
Sky Handling Partners vs Mulley.net
Sky Handling Partners pick on the wrong guy
Sky Handling Partners are Gay?
Oh dear. I think the take down notice may be a tad too late lads. Time to hunker down in the Skybunker and hope the interweb hate tsunami don’t wash you out to sea.
June 21st, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Beautiful!
A predictable knee-jerk response if ever there was one. A knee-jerk response wired for a different generation of the human animal. This is like–once upon a time, people poured kerosene on fires to put them out. This worked well enough. But now the laws of physics have shifted, and pouring kerosene on fires…just…OH YOU KNOW THE REST.
This is old world tweed-suit tactics vs. new-world internet momentum. They are operating in the wrong arena, these boys. Clearly Damien Mulley’s arena. If their aim is to defuse the situation and salvage their name, then they need to two a couple of things:
1) Locate and return Damien’s luggage. There’s a start.
2) Issue an apology. If they choose to use words like “yes, it’s true, we indulged in the idle fucking-about of problem customer on a quiet afternoon”, all the better. Honesty +50 as far as I’m concerned.
June 21st, 2007 at 11:06 pm
It’s a game of tit-for-tat. They lost his luggage, messed him around. He called them a shower of cunts. This is when the polite letter asking him to take down the post and expressing their deep concerns about their internet image and sincere willingness to help him out, now, now that they know he has some kind of strange power that they don’t quite comprehend–reputation points!–would have been useful. But instead somebody takes it upon themselves to retaliate with SECRET ACTS OF GAYSIGNUPPERY. Probably giggling at the time. Considering themselves, oh, so very clever.
But the Internet remembers, and looks after its own.
Now they have to stop, for their own sakes. Their original little revenge act had a grim kind of purity to it. A flawed human aspect. But now they’ll find themselves playing the part of the big clumsy corporation, treading all over the Internet–new and unstable ground–and leaving dirty big footprints everywhere. And from every footprint will spring a thousand angry bloggers with pure 21st-century schadenfreude in their eyes.
They have to wind their necks in and give somebody the sack.
June 22nd, 2007 at 9:06 am
I think Aer Lingus, of all people, located and returned Damien’s luggage to him. The dating site sign up scandal appears to have been a malicious response to either his complaint or his robust explanation on his site.
I agree with your analysis, it’s a new world out there for the wired up consumer. It will be interesting to see how it all pans out.