When little things go wrong.
By marguicha
@marguicha (230350)
Chile
January 7, 2016 4:51pm CST
I have not done much today besides fighting over the phone with several people.
My youngest daughter is ill and her phone has had problems for over 2 weeks. Today she asked me to help her and I started my long saga.
I called the phone company where she has a combo with internet and cable TV. The first minutes I was guided by a very stupid machine that kept on offering me other products. When I thought it was all over, the phone went mute and then the call ended. I had to start all of it again, listening to those sentences with alternatives.
Finally I reached a human being and he told me that they would send service today.
I waited and nothing happened, so I called again.
To tell you about the many calls and the many people I talked to would take several posts. Sufice to say that each of them said something different.
Finally, I asked them to give me the number of the comercial area as I would end my relation with this company. Fortunatly there are several, none of them wonderful, to choose from.
My daughter also called them from her cell phone and finally, it seems that they will do something about it tomorrow evening. I´m keeping my fingers crossed.
I find it extremelly irritating that we cannot get things done by phone, specially with the phone company.
How is it in your country?
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6 responses
@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
8 Jan 16
Here there are better and worse companies. But telephone companies are all awful.
@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
8 Jan 16
I will not count it as a victory until the people really go and fix it.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
10 Jan 16
I no longer have a landline that connects with cables but the one I have is a fixed wireless. It does give trouble specially when the current is off. I have two mobiles and so I am not inconvenienced much.
@LovingMyBabies (85923)
• Valdosta, Georgia
7 Jan 16
It is a lot of automated annoyances here too. If your lucky to speak to someone half the time you cannot understand their accent. The other half of the time you don't get to speak to someone who knows what they are talking about! Very annoying indeed.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
8 Jan 16
We have the accent thing here too. There are lots of immigrants and companies hire them because they pay them less. But their accents are very different sometimes.
@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
8 Jan 16
It is horrid to deal with the cable/iinternet company here. They have the upper hand and know it and treat their customers like less than.
They are very rude on the phone for sure.
I hate paying my bill as I grudge it.
They charge too much for all of it and low quality.







