It's Game Over for One Insanely Abrasive Video-Game PR Guy

Paul Christoforo's adventures in customer service

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Anytime a PR guy finds himself emailing "Please make it stop" to one of the most influential people on the Internet, you can bet that a career-ending social-media meltdown is well under way. This week the perpetrator/victim is Paul Christoforo, president of Ocean Marketing, whose business name has quickly become a Web meme synonymous with pompous jackassery. Christoforo recently launched into a borderline-illegible email assault on a customer for one of his clients, N-Control, maker of the Avenger controller (above) for the Sony PlayStation 3.

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