Microsoft Apologizes to Fort Gay for Xbox Live Ban

[Super Toast]

Microsoft has dropped the ball a lot recently, haven't they?

 

[lapan]

It's not so bad, he could have lived in Fucking, Austria

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there is a place in Germany called "Fucking"(I am not making this up, check it if you dont believe me) so it could be worse

Wrong country, see above. Although it's close to the border.

 

[Zer_]

Seriously, I'd hope all the people who refused to even google maps it get fired, immediately. Incompetence is what this is.

No, it isn't. Most call centers have very restrictive regulations. For the most part, you can't surf the web at all. So chances are he couldn't do it.

 

[Th37thTrump3t]

The employee wouldn't Google the name of the town? I mean, I know you hear all sorts of crap on a customer service line, but that would have taken all of ten seconds, if that.

Im suspecting the tech rep wont be in the department for long. Seriously, I just googled Ft. Gay, West Virginia and it took a total of about 10 seconds to type it in, 258,000 results (0.12 seconds) and the first thing was a google maps picture of the place, the second was a WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE of the place.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Gay,_West_Virginia

Apparently only .12 seconds actually.

 

[GBlair88]

It's not so bad, he could have lived in Fucking, Austria

If it wasn't for the second comma, that sentence could read very differently.

 

[SwagLordYoloson]

Google maps is the new homepage of all Microsoft employees who work in the tech support room, all 2 guys now have google map

 

[jaing1138]

"It eventually reached the point that the town's mayor, David Thompson, got involved, although he didn't fare any better, being told that the word "gay" wasn't appropriate under any circumstances."
RIIIGHT... so the use in the flintstones theme song, or the use as its original meaning of happy is inappropriate?
Seems to me Microsoft is trying to ban happiness... doesn't suprise me.

 

[Blind Sight]

i feel sorry for the people who live in Dildo, Newfoundland, Canada, if this is how microsoft's customer service works

Dildo is also near Conception Bay, for some reason. And to be an asshole, nit-picky Canadian, it's actually Newfoundland and Labrador now