AT&T Broadband - Fuck you, Morons!

Yeah, I’m talking to you, you pus-infested ignoramuses. Who the hell even let you near the fucking internet, you pissheads? Congratulations on royally fucking over just under 1 million people, myself included.

Did it even occur to your tiny little minds that some of us like to be or need to be connected to Internet, and that we pay you godawful sums of money for the pleasure of high-speed always on connection? Well…I can tell you what my fucking speed is now…ZERO. And I’m certainly not connected, you fuckwads.

No, you had to decide to play your game of dick-swinging chicken with Excite@home…and guess what, dimwits, you lost. Oh, you’re probably sitting around chortling about how this didn’t exactly work out the way you wanted, smoking the “losers” cigar and wondering how your seven-figure bonus might be affected…and maybe in a brief glimmer the thought of your customers crosses your mind, which you no doubt brush away with a quick swipe of your hand. Because you certainly wouldn’t want to be bothered thinking about your FUCKING CUSTOMERS, would ya?

You had MONTHS…MONTHS to figure out what to do, you fucking have seats on Excite’s board, you knew exactly what was going down…and you did JACK-SHIT about it. And now we’re sitting here without our connection.

You guys and gals are absolutely clueless. Brain-dead. A bunch of untrained orangutangs under the guidance of Miss Cleo could have made better decisions than you.

Oh, you did you something. Your version of customer service. Thanks for the fucking recorded voice telling me I’ll be getting a call in a week that will THEN tell me when I can expect my connection back up. What the FUCK are you thinking? In the previous several months you didn’t plan out how the areas affected would be migrated over? You can’t do simple math - let’s see, we can do 3 areas per day, and we have 90 areas to go, and we’re doing them in this order, so area Z will be ready on this day. NOPE. FUCKHEADS. “We’ll call you back later with the day…right now we’re trying to get our heads out of our asses, thank you.”

I should have expected this. This is the same customer service who for the last three months I called complaining that my connection was dropping periodically, only to be continually re-run thru the “reboot everything” process. Finally I complain loudly enough that you send out a technician, who unpacks a new modem, saying “oh, I see the problem. The system was upgraded a few months ago and these here older modems like the one you have don’t always understand the new signal, so drop the connection for a couple hours at a time.” Oh, great, fucking idiots, you upgrade the system so the older tools don’t work correctly and then NEGLECT TO TELL YOUR CUSTOMERS OR PRO-ACTIVELY FIX THE PROBLEM. You WAIT until they complain enough.

You guys are shitheads, plain and simple. I have my call into my DSL provider and the competing cable provider, and first one here gets my business. You don’t deserve to lick the dirt off the bottom of my shoes.

I could go on and on, but am so pissed I’ll stop here. I sincerely hope that some or many of you in mgmt at AT&T Broadband lose your jobs over this, and are NEVER allowed near another internet position. You obviously can’t handle it.

In the meantime, fuck you heartily, fuckers.

What, 20 views and no replies?

HEY PEOPLE - this was my FIRST EVER Pit Thread! Rate it, analyze, hell, even respond to the OP.

:slight_smile:

Gotta say, it really helped to get it out. Pit Thread Therapy, no?

Oh, and on topic of OP one more thing:

AT&T says (in the oh-so-sincere voice recording at their toll-free #) that our area is “scheduled” to be up within 10 days.

Raise your hand if you think over next couple days we’ll start hearing statements from them like “unforeseen complications…blah blah…may take a little longer…blah blah…trying our best…blah blah…we really really really sincerely apologize and we really really really hope you’ll stay with us…” etc.

I’ve got both hands raised.

While I agree that AT&T should have done more, I have to make a point that many forget or aren’t aware of.

That there was a day and time when you were charged per minute for the time you spent on the internet especially before broadband. In fact, if I remember correctly, many Euro nations and South American nations are still on that, PLUS, they have to pay per minute on their phone usage, even local calls.

While AT&T and other companies didn’t take the appropriate steps to circumvent problems, we here in the US (and possibly Canada too) have it pretty easy and are spoiled. One lump sum to play on the internet all we want. Shoot, even our gas prices are cheap compared to Euro and South American peoples.

Oh and don’t forget our rural SDMBers, many can’t get any form of broadband except maybe satellite, but even some of them can’t get it so they are stuck with crappy phone lines.

< techchick gets her DSL this week, we hope >

I don’t poopoo what you say but I often wonder if we US people aren’t just a little spoiled.

I think the problem with your rant is that it’s directed at a broadband internet provider. It’s just all to common an experience and there have been dozens of rants directed at them to date.

Internet Service Provider rants belong with those of:

  • Cable TV Provider Rants
  • Stupid Driver Rants
  • Stupid (insert electronics superstore) Employee Rants
  • Lazy Co-worker Rants
  • Landlord Rants
  • Obnoxious Neighbor Rants

Been there, done it, read it in The Pit.

techchick: defang my OP, will you? You make a valid point, but two quick things…

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[li]I have been using cable modems for two+ years now, and in fact my main computer (which I bought two years ago) doesn’t even have a phone modem, so right now I’m SOL with that one.[/li][li]But I do pay a premium for cable modem - I pay $30/mo. more than a dial-up connection, which is no small sum of money over two years. I pay a premium and expect premium service.[/li][/ul]
So, spoiled, maybe, but it’s all relative.

dietrologia: Yes, been there done that…except this is MY pit thread. Mine, I say, mine, and thus far more thoughtful and important than the other ones. :slight_smile:

:posting from dialup account:

They’ll have us up soon :slight_smile:

Mine is back up after being without access for a day even though they said it might been a week. That’s not bad. No biggie since the in-laws were in town for the weekend.

Well my AT&T cable went down Saturday morning, but I’d expected it to after first I got a letter in the mail, and then I got an e-mail. I had a call apologizing by Saturday afternoon, also promising to give me 2 days credit for ever one day down, and I’m back up by Monday morning.

Oh and by late Monday Morning I had another call from AT&T telling me it was up, and apologizing for a second time.

I think your beef might also be with excite@home.

What can I say? I think AT&T ROCKS!!

Well, I’m glad you guys got back up so quickly, however my city’s on the “last-to-be-fixed” list, so it’s looking like Friday, although I’m not holding my breath.

bio-brat: I have no beef w/ Excite@home, since they never sent me any bills nor did I send them any checks. AT&T by selling its service to me should have taken all necessary precautions to not disrupt said service. At this they so obviously failed.

At the very least, they should have provided to us already prepared temporary dial-up accounts either through themselves or through AT&T WorldNet. We as customers should not have to scramble to find connectivity.

From what I hear most of the Bay Area is back online. I lost service for two days. All in all, I have to give AT&T credit for doing this well.

Shylock, I hope they get ahead of schedule and get you connected soon.

Nope, not happening. The fuckwads posted yesterday that my area (Hartford CT) would be up Thursday, and in less than 12 hours they reverse that and now it’s Friday.

These fucking idiots send out “tooting our own horn” press releases about how many people they’ve migrated…“80% of AT&T customers will have been converted by end of day today”. So, let’s see, it’s going to take you the exact same amount of time to move the remaining 20%? Color me confused…

Or, I can read between the lines. Hartford area is in no way ready to be migrated, but they don’t want to tell us so we move to a competitor.

Yeah. Friday. I’ll be holding my breath. Bunch of idiots.