@Eveline – you’re so genius! It practically writes itself!

I’m so going to do it.

And then @Hiro will make a video of herself whispering sweet nothings to George W. Bush and we’ll have YouTube wars for the largest number of WTH comments. Awesome.

Yay!

Hiro Bogas last blog post..Happy Thanksgiving, Baby

Thank you,
need that at the moment

Juliet

Looking forward to the Next Big Thing you birth into the world. And I loved reading the roadmap too ~ I’ve learned to be quite disciplined with containing, protecting & nurturing my energy & ideas until the time is right. I just love that word – containment – at the moment :)

Wishing you a gorgeous shining day!
Leonie

I’m so glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t necessarily feel grateful when prompted to do so. I’m not bah humbug, I’m just not grateful all the time during the Holidays.

I’m not sure I could make myself wear a muu muu. I always think of a bright green flower print thing in size XXXXXL. Muu Muu is a funny word… And that makes me wonder, is it Pom Pom or Pon Pon or Pom Pon?? I know, random thought inserted. *sigh* That’s just how I work sometimes.

And I’m sorry to those of you who don’t celebrate Thanksgiving that it is shoved down your throats. I’m a born and raised American, and I can’t stand Thanksgiving. I think the whole concept is stupid. Why are we hiding behind our forfathers landing on the flippin mayflower when all we really want to do is eat a bunch of food? Maybe it should be renamed Thankful to Gorge Yourself Day. =)

*another random thought* the street out front of my store is spurting water like 15cm into the air and making a small river down the gutter of the road!!!!

Melissas last blog post..Get It All Out!

Thanks for the riff on a bit of the pain of “scheduled gratitude.” I like mine off the cuff and on the fly ~ and very, very fun, like my favorite blogs. Great links (points for having been to most?!) and lovely visit, as usual.

I’m sending you a personal note as well to give you the full scoop and mia culpa… but I wanted all of your readers to get a snippet so that they wouldn’t think that we were indeed “spammy jerks” that “step on toes”.

Here’s an excerpt from my longer mail…

We completely understand your frustration with TeachStreet about our belated response to your message which we have since received and value very much.

On Monday of this week, one of our Community Team members filed a bug to our engineering team after noticing the “contact us” form on our site was not giving us a confirmation message. It turns out that this “simple bug” was really a bigger issue with the contact us form not working properly and not pushing messages to our customer service management system.

Our Community Development Team works hard to return customer e-mails within 24 hours. When we launched TeachStreet in the Bay Area, we concurrently released a whole new site redesign. We did a lot of bug testing to make sure the site was up to our high standards, and I would say that this issue was the most critical technical problem that we missed. Customer feedback, especially constructive feedback like yours, is the most valuable thing we can get, especially after launching in a new market.

We know that your first experience with us was both frustrating and disappointing, and that the damage may already be done, but we wanted to at least make our best attempt to explain the circumstances and let you know that we do respect both your opinion and your feedback.

We’d also like the chance to make your second impression of TeachStreet a bit more representative of the type of company we try hard to be. If you have other ideas about ways that we can improve, and ways we can do outreach to teachers and instructors in new cities, we’d love your input.

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I hope this clears things up, or at least gives you a better sense of our intentions.

My direct contact information is below. I welcome you (and your readers) to check out the site and let us know what we can do better. We might not always get it right the first time, but we’ll work like hell to get it right the second time. ;)

Thanks for the post and your feedback,

Katie Gruver

TeachStreet Community & Operations Manager
206.381.0652 | 877.832.2470
http://www.teachstreet.com
katie[at]teachstreet[dot]com

Katies last blog post..Frugal Gal’s Guide to Fitness: Upper Body

Also, now I want stripey longjohns. At once!