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Enshittification @lemmy.world
MikeyU @lemmy.today

I hate Verizon

So my internet went out on Friday at 6am. Trying to navigate the Verizon website and app has been a pure hellscape, with repeated requests to revalidate using a PIN which is denied arbitrarally, causing call to drop. If you do manage to get a warm body, they put you on hold or transfer the call will inevitably drops causing one to start the whole process again. Finally, they said it was a router problem, which was only 6 months old and no longer compatible with their service. Finally got bounced back to Sales at 5PM, who ordered a new router for me and waived the recurring fee (either $400 for a new router or $18/month for something paid for many times over). Anyway, I went to pick up said new router at the location indicated only to find that they don't stock equipment and I have to drive another 4 miles to a nondescript store in a strip mall. I finally get home and try to self-install which bombs out, necessitating another aventure into their website/app hellscape. About 18 ho

  • Wow, 2/29/88 was the darkest day of my life. Nice to see it wasn't all bad. Thanks.

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
    MikeyU @lemmy.today

    Spent the morning staring out the window. In the afternoon, I lurked in the basement trying to determine the source of an odd sound (I didn’t find it)