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phredgreen · 05-16-2004, 01:07 PM

He did what so many people have the good sense not to do but want to do anyways. My hat goes off to him for expressing the emotions of millions of jilted wireless customers.

That being said, he's a complete and utter moron. Like Harshaw says, the best way to tell a company you don't appreciate the way they've treated you is to take your money elsewhere.

My job consists of me driving box trucks of various lengths to various vacation destinations for corporate events, and in the duration of those shows, the truck has to be somewhere, so I've experienced the best and the worst of customer service in trying to find places to store a 24 foot truck for up to a week.

The first show I worked was in downtown Miami. Just like any othe major city, downtown is a parking nightmare. I finally found a spot (actually, two) to leave it and paid way too much to some wily cubans who had the good sense to buy up a parcel of land in the middle of downtown, pave it, and paint lines onto it. I paid for the entire week's worth of parking up front, then fanned out the massive array of parking stubs onto my dashboard and left the truck for the week.

The show went fine, and at the end of the week I woke up early to pick up the truck and get on the road. Just my luck, they were having a footrace right through downtown, and the race path ran right past the entry/exit of the lot. I hopped in my truck to get out of there before racers entered the area, and this fucking woman who spoke three words of english, none of which were helpful, decided I wasn't allowed to leave until I paid another 20 dollars. To accentuate her point, she closed the gate in front of me. We proceeded to argue for about 20 minutes back and forth and I was just about to ram through the fucking gate when the racers started running by. I got intensely frustrated, decided that because the company was covering it, I paid her the money, and she opened the gate. I waited for an opening in the racers, pulled out into the race, and started following a couple of the runners. The look on their faces when they turned around and saw a commercial truck behind them was pure class. A race attendant saw me and freaked out, so she pulled open a barricade and I exited the race and found my way back to the highway and back home.

The moral of the story? There are times when bastards will trap you into giving them your money. A parking lot fence or a two-year wireless agreement are pretty much the same thing, you're under their thumb. But that being said, I'll never park a truck with those conniving theives again.

05-16-2004, 01:07 PM	#6 (permalink)
phredgreen who? Location: the phoenix metro	He did what so many people have the good sense not to do but want to do anyways. My hat goes off to him for expressing the emotions of millions of jilted wireless customers. That being said, he's a complete and utter moron. Like Harshaw says, the best way to tell a company you don't appreciate the way they've treated you is to take your money elsewhere. My job consists of me driving box trucks of various lengths to various vacation destinations for corporate events, and in the duration of those shows, the truck has to be somewhere, so I've experienced the best and the worst of customer service in trying to find places to store a 24 foot truck for up to a week. The first show I worked was in downtown Miami. Just like any othe major city, downtown is a parking nightmare. I finally found a spot (actually, two) to leave it and paid way too much to some wily cubans who had the good sense to buy up a parcel of land in the middle of downtown, pave it, and paint lines onto it. I paid for the entire week's worth of parking up front, then fanned out the massive array of parking stubs onto my dashboard and left the truck for the week. The show went fine, and at the end of the week I woke up early to pick up the truck and get on the road. Just my luck, they were having a footrace right through downtown, and the race path ran right past the entry/exit of the lot. I hopped in my truck to get out of there before racers entered the area, and this fucking woman who spoke three words of english, none of which were helpful, decided I wasn't allowed to leave until I paid another 20 dollars. To accentuate her point, she closed the gate in front of me. We proceeded to argue for about 20 minutes back and forth and I was just about to ram through the fucking gate when the racers started running by. I got intensely frustrated, decided that because the company was covering it, I paid her the money, and she opened the gate. I waited for an opening in the racers, pulled out into the race, and started following a couple of the runners. The look on their faces when they turned around and saw a commercial truck behind them was pure class. A race attendant saw me and freaked out, so she pulled open a barricade and I exited the race and found my way back to the highway and back home. The moral of the story? There are times when bastards will trap you into giving them your money. A parking lot fence or a two-year wireless agreement are pretty much the same thing, you're under their thumb. But that being said, I'll never park a truck with those conniving theives again. __________________ My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. - Thomas Paine Last edited by phredgreen; 05-16-2004 at 02:51 PM..