RE: OT: How to waste and hour of your life
- From: "Jim Harrison" <Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:40:05 -0800
1st week, Aug 2005
- I decide to switch from ISP1 to ISP2. At this stage, ISP1 splits the billing
between them & Verizon (I pay two bills).
- amoong other advantages, ISP2 will pay the Verizon part and I only pay one
(ultimately lower) bill.
- ISP2 also offers to handle the ISP switchover for me.
2nd week, Aug 05
- ISP 2 informs me that Verizon has lost their cutover request and they've
resubmitted it.
- Verizon does, however cut off my DSL circuit since they're not my ISP
- ISATools.org goes underground
3rd week, Aug 05
- ISP2 informs me that Verizon has acknowledged the cutover request, but as
Verizon is not my ISP, they can't honor the request
4th week, Aug 05
- ISP2 informs me that Verizon has finally come around to the fact that they
only provided the line and are scheduling the cutover from ISP1 to ISP2
- Verizon refuses to reconnect my DSL since they have an order from ISP2 to
connect to their DSLAM
Sep 05
- Verizon completes the switchover to ISP2 and ISATools.org is back online
Jan 06
- My wife realizes that we have not seen a Verizon bill and contacts them
- Verzon informs her that they have no such account and refuses to discuss the
issue further
- We tag-team Verizon and finally get to a *4th-level* person who can actually
access Verizon records and subsequently discovers that they closed our entire
account on (three guesses?) Sep 05
- After two hours on the (supposedly disconnected) phone, we finally convince
him that:
(a) we did not request disconnection of our voice service
(b) they will resume billing us without charging us for the "service" between
Sep 05 and Feb 06
We're waiting for the Feb bill to see what 1d10cy they come up with next.
I love the ads hinting that you actually have a choice in your land-line
service provider.
..and Microsoft is a f#@$#@ing monopoly?
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From: Peter J. Persing [mailto:Peter@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sun 2/12/2006 11:36 AM
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Subject: [isalist] RE: OT: How to waste and hour of your life
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You must have never talked to Verizon to straighten your cell phone
billing.
That would be titled "How to waste the rest of your life".
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: Thor (Hammer of God) [mailto:thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 12:28
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Subject: [isalist] OT: How to waste and hour of your life
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If you have nothing better to do, and would like to completely waste an
hour of your life, then call up "Toys R' Us" and ask them to check stock
on a badminton kit.
Them: "Toys R' Us, can you hold?"
Me: "Sure."
I hold, and hold, and hold. Bad music, too.
Them: "Toys R' Us, can you hold?"
Me: "Again?"
Them: "What?"
Me: "Nothing. Sure, I'll hold."
I hold, and hold, and hold.
Them: "Thanks for holding, can I help you?"
Me: "Yes, before I drive all the way out there, I wanted to make sure
you had a Badminton Game Kit in stock."
Them: "A what?"
Me: "You know- 'Badminton.' The game. You've got a net and you hit
the little birdie thing back and forth with a racquet."
Them: "Oh. Hold please."
I hold, and hold, and hold.
She finally picks back up.
Them: "This is for your bath?"
Me: "Bath? I didn't plan to use it in the bath, but I must say, it has
possibilites."
Them: "What?"
Me: "No bath-- B A D M I N T O N. It's a GAME. With a net. A birdie.
Racquets. You hit the little birdie back and forth to each other over
the net. You play it outside. I want to buy the whole kit."
Them: "Oh, that. Hold please. I'll check in the computer."
I hold, and hold, and hold. More bad music.
New guy picks up.
Them: "Toys R' Us, can I help you?"
Me: "Someone is checking on an item for me already."
Them: "Oh, I'm helping you now."
Me: "Oh, good. I'm looking for a badminton kit. You know, the game.
It's kind of like tennis, only smaller. I need the net, the birdie, and
4 racquets."
Them: "I'll go check. Please hold."
I hold, and hold, and hold.
New guy comes back.
Them: "Sorry, we don't carry tennis nets. You need a sporting goods
store."
Me: "It's not a tennis net. It' a badminton kit. The kit. The whole
kit.
I'm looking at one on your web site through Amazon right now."
Them: "Oh, that. Yeah, yeah... Hold on, I'll go check."
I hold, and hold, and hold.
Original girl gets back on the phone.
Them: "Sorry, we don't have your item."
Me: "But the other guy was checking on it. Are you sure?"
Them: "Yes."
Me: "Just to make sure... What item was he checking for?"
Them: "The item for your bath. We don't have it."
Me: "Yes, of course, the bath. Well at least you've given me an
interesting idea."
Them: "What?"
Me: "Nothing. Thanks for looking."
Sometimes I wonder why I bother.
t
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"I don't want their respect, I want their obedience."
Dr. Thomas W. Shinder, M.D.
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