Entitled, whiny white tech workers find new way to get prompt service from Comcast
Owen Thomas · 07/25/08 03:40PMI couldn't help but notice a trend in the New York Times report about bloggers and Twitter users who have gotten superior service from Comcast after complaining about the cable company online: They are all white. Brandon Dilbeck, William Pomerantz, Lyza Gardner: white, white, white. Oh, and all involved with the technology industry. And yet they all seem to be under the delusion that they are powerless and that no one listens to them. In fact, Comcast has assigned a white person, Frank Eliason, to listen to white people's complaints on Twitter and blogs full-time. Gardner seems like an especially noisome kind of white Twitter user — the one who will gladly talk behind your back when you're not listening, but then acts surprised when you overhear her: