I’ve always wanted to say that- If I were a man and had a bag, I’d invite them to lick it!
Story: My elderly mother in law used to get cable from a little town provider for around $8 a month (very basic- 13 channels). Then little company goes out of business. Time Warner fucking takes over and guess what??
Guess what??
They don’t offer a cheap package like that (they tell her)- she has to buy a $35/month package to get ANY channels! No cheapo way out- $35 or nothing. She calls me up NEARLY IN TEARS because she can’t get out and TV is really her main source of entertainment. She is devastated at the idea of missing her “stories”.
Zette goes fucking nuts. Apeshit. Calls Time Warner.
Since my brother in law worked there, I get the name of the asshole who runs our local office. I tell him that not ONLY are they going to give her the fucking cheap package that I KNOW FOR AN ABSOLUTE FACT that they have available, but that they should probobly give her a few months of it for FREE for causing all the goddamned upset that they did to her and lying to her and arguing with her and making her feel bad for living on a fixed income and it better fucking happen RIGHT GODDAMNED NOW, thank you very much, yes sir, I’d be glad to hold for a minute.
I also let him know that I was, at that very moment, composing a letter to the editor of our local paper and the NY Times (for good measure) about large companies screwing elderly people out of money, and refusing to give a service to someone that SPECIFICALLY ASKS FOR IT, even though it is available to other people.
So jackass comes back and assures me that they are horsewhipping the bitch that told my mother-in-law that the package she wants isn’t available. Must have been a simple mistake! Nothing to get all upset about! (I let him know that I wasn’t upset- I was LIVID) Also, as a way of making up for it, they’ll go ahead and turn that on for free (gee, thanks) and she won’t see a bill for the first 6 months of service.
Geez, thanks a lot pigfucker, but that STILL does not explain this:
Why are your employees penalized (and they are according to my brother in law) for letting people know that a cheap package is available? Is it legal to tell someone a service is not available when it is?
I told this jackass that she had BETTER not see a bill, and I would be following up on this with my State Attorney General.
Fuck you, Time Warner!!
(And no, she can’t afford a dish or the packages they offer)