If this isn’t the worst company I’ve ever had to deal with, it certainly comes close. Unfortunately out here in Canada’s wasteland (all of 50 km from Ottawa) I have no choice in cellular providers so I’m stuck with these idiots.
Suddenly our cell phone stopped working – outbound calls “could not be completed as dialled” and incoming calls received a busy signal.
A trip to the Phone Store confirmed that there was nothing wrong with the phone itself and the ever-helpful(!) clerk provided a couple of numbers we could call at Bell Mobility to get some technical assistance.
Enter auto-attendant hell until some combination of buttons pressed in frustration result in a real live person, Jose Garcia, taking the call.
After the requisite identity check, Jose Garcia allowed as how our account was out of funds and that’s why the phone stopped working.
Me: “How can that be? We’re on an automatic payment plan.”
Him: “Yes, but we had a computer problem a while back and the automatic payments didn’t work. Do you want me to top you up now?”
Me: “Did it ever occur to anyone at Bell to advise their customers?”
Him: “No. They all have to call in.”
Me: “Gawd I hate having to deal with you guys.”
Him: “Yes sir. Do you want me to top you up now?”
I can hardly wait for Flaherty to come calling to use more of my tax dollars to prop up this sorry excuse for a business.
2 comments:
Same thing just happened to us! It seems Bell Mobility is determined to extract the maximum frustration as well as the maximum of money.
Perhaps they moved the phone centers out of the country for the sake of employee safety.
LOL.
It's hard not to feel sorry for the front line troops though, when your entire organization is as customer unfriendly as those bozos are back in head office.
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