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My Take: CX Hall of Fame
Gary Lemke, Chief Customer Advocate   (January 17, 2012)
 
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Recently, I have shared my take regarding two public customer experience situations: The Alec Baldwin/American Airlines tussle and the rogue FedEx employee chucking computer monitors over fences. To be more precise, my take has been about how businesses dealt with the situation especially against a backdrop of viral awareness via social media.
 
These are just two of many stories I have shared in the past. To keep the stories straight, I have given them my own little names. There is Biker Mom who blogged about her disagreement with Burgerville about using her bike at the drive-through window.
 
There is Hammer Lady who smashed Comcasts office equipment with said tool to get the customer service staff's attention. And, of course there is Guitar Man who wrote of his United Airlines experience.
 
Let's not forget PG&E's handling of the new power meters that mysteriously caused a concern over accuracy of billing or Dell hiding from faulty components. And perhaps the recent grand-daddy of them all was BP's mishandling of information about the gulf oil spill.
 
The recent examples show businesses are making very positive headway. Do you agree?
 
  What's your take?
 
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