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AT&T Customer No-Service

By insomnyuk in insomnyuk's Diary
Mon Apr 30, 2007 at 12:44:03 PM EST
Tags: ATT, retards, sodomy (all tags)

I am on the phone, wrangling with an ATT customer "service" representative, trying to cancel two "features" on our business phone line - a line we only use for DSL.

It's our fourth phone line. We pay fucking $33.94 a month for it. $6.00 a month is for "CO Termination With Touchtone", which essentially is a fee that you pay so you can hear the numbers being dialed when you press them. The second, is for $6.15 a month, for "Individual Message Business Hunting Line", which allows a phone call sent to that line, if busy, to roll over to another line. Nobody calls this line, since we don't give the number out, so obviously this is not needed either.

The second rep I talked to while calling me Mr. Daniel (lol what a communications major no doubt), tried to explain that the Individual Message Business Hunting line was not an add-on feature, but actually the line itself. I disputed this by saying the $15.00/month "Line Charge" was the line, plus what the first rep told me. She is now trying to figure out what line it's supposed to roll over to, as if that fucking matters.

Yes, I'm still on hold.


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AT&T (none / 1) (#1)
by testicular torsion on Mon Apr 30, 2007 at 12:48:20 PM EST




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You know they outsource 100% of their CS (none / 1) (#3)
by Louis Winthorpe III on Mon Apr 30, 2007 at 01:20:07 PM EST

right?  And their mainframe for customer service has this serious bug, where if you hit f6 it'll lock the session, and kick the user out for 2 hours.

I shit you not, we billed them MILLIONS for our agents to sit around and sleep when they figured this out.  Of course they didn't care since they were bilking billions out of you, their customers.  You know the ones that they couldn't even be bothered to take calls from.

God, I love oursourcing.

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"La Boheme, it's an opera."

This is where your money is going! (none / 0) (#4)
by j1mmy on Mon Apr 30, 2007 at 01:39:07 PM EST

hahaha

I got long-distance slammed by AT&T a couple years ago, which turned me off to them for good. I don't have a landline anymore, so it hardly matters.

Why do you need to have phone service alongside your DSL? I've had unbundled service for over two years now and I think it's available in most of the US.


explain to me why you have 4 lines? (none / 0) (#6)
by GhostOfTiber on Mon Apr 30, 2007 at 01:42:58 PM EST

and why you have a line that's "only DSL"?

FOIS ----->

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Disputing with a utility is like (1.50 / 2) (#7)
by Enlarged to Show Texture on Mon Apr 30, 2007 at 01:43:17 PM EST

disputing with the government. It doesn't work. Give up, suck up, and either pay up or STFU. srsly


"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." -- Isaac Asimov
That is why I got rid of Qwest. (none / 1) (#12)
by fluxrad on Mon Apr 30, 2007 at 01:58:26 PM EST

My bill was fubar for something like a year straight. After years of shite service from both US Worst and, later, Qwest I decided to politely tell them to fuck off.

I've been 100% Qwest free for several years now and I couldn't be happier.

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"It is seldom liberty of any kind that is lost all at once."
-David Hume
True telco story (none / 1) (#15)
by ebonkyre on Mon Apr 30, 2007 at 02:53:08 PM EST

Years ago, my mom was working in an office that faced a busy highway, and someone passed by daily with a radiotelephone (this is back when cell phones were still handsets tethered to a carry-on bag, and had little highway coverage, so fleet services used these instead).  Every time this person drove by while using their phone, the office phone system would pick it up as interference.

Phone company's response to the trouble report?

"Is anyone else hearing these voices?"

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I'd be happy (none / 0) (#16)
by Deagol on Mon Apr 30, 2007 at 03:21:39 PM EST

if I could simply get fucking bare DSL. I wish it were mandated by law or something. Why the hell can't I just pay the half for DSL and *not* all the shit that goes w/ a telephone voice line. That's what the cell phone is for.

it's all peaches/cream w/ China Telecom(TW) (none / 1) (#18)
by nostalgiphile on Mon Apr 30, 2007 at 04:20:40 PM EST

except that they're nazis when it comes to cutting off us overdue bill-payers. This annoyance is offset, however, by sexy Chunghwahwahwa Telecom (TW) babes at the bill payment center (I don't believe in automatic electronic interbank fund transfers).

"Depending on your perspective you are an optimist or a pessimist[,] and a hopeless one too." --trhurler
AT&T is not the answer. (3.00 / 2) (#19)
by GhostOfSmoothie on Mon Apr 30, 2007 at 05:24:25 PM EST

In fact, AT&T is a question. The answer, is 'No'.

Get Speakeasy. You'll pay more, but you'll never, ever have to put up with this kind of bullshit ever again.
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Well, DUH. (1.50 / 1) (#27)
by Peahippo on Mon Apr 30, 2007 at 10:40:28 PM EST

Is anyone here familiar with the blatant, outrageous, sneering and utter contempt that Whites held for Blacks in the South up to the 1960s? Yeh, that's what AT&T and other large corporations think about us, the customers (i.e Neo-Niggers). Corporations hold us in more contempt than homeowners hold renters.

Here's a slightly more dramatic rendition of the modern call for customer support in America:

Customer: "I want to review my bill."

Agent: "You unbelievable fucker!! How dare you interrupt us with your crapshit!?!? JUST PAY YOUR BILL AND SHUT YOUR COCKHOLE!"

Customer: "What?!?! I'll sue! What's your name?!?!"

Agent: "My name!?!? FUCK YOU's my name!! Go ahead and sue, if you can afford it. We're a major corporation. We write the laws and own the courts! We'll win!!"


YOU HAVE A LANDLINE LOL $ (none / 1) (#30)
by debillitatus on Tue May 01, 2007 at 12:06:23 AM EST


Damn you and your daily doubles, you brigand!

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