On Hold With Phone Companies
Mar. 5th, 2007 05:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mlerulesLast Fri I called and successfully got my gas, electric, water, and garbage service and accounts started in Portland, OR in less time than I spent on hold w/Verizon today to cancel my local ph svc and direct debit payment plan and give 'em my new address for the final bill. As the inestimable ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
delerium3 puts her prof'l abilities to work for me (packing my artworks for moving), I'm spending hours on-hold and chatting w/various customer svc reps and mechanical computer phone systems (automated for MY convenience - HA!) to handle canceling my local SoCal utilities. Actually, the utilities other than phone svc have been really nice & easy (and quick) to deal with - all the trouble lies w/the phone companies. Gots to just LOVE deregulation! :-(
delerium3 puts her prof'l abilities to work for me (packing my artworks for moving), I'm spending hours on-hold and chatting w/various customer svc reps and mechanical computer phone systems (automated for MY convenience - HA!) to handle canceling my local SoCal utilities. Actually, the utilities other than phone svc have been really nice & easy (and quick) to deal with - all the trouble lies w/the phone companies. Gots to just LOVE deregulation! :-(
