• Pantsofmagic@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    After seeing how at&t manages their systems, their app, their stores, and talking to tech support… This doesn’t surprise me at all. This all from the viewpoint of a layperson who has used them for service for 15 years or so. Unfortunately I also have a Verizon account and they seem to also be utterly incompetent. I think it’s rampant in the telecom industry to just have absolute shit for a back-end. A race to the fucking bottom. Fuck these execs that enable this shit, send them all to jail.

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      5 months ago

      They required me to completely pay off a device to change its number. They’re clearly using the phone number as the database record ID which is atrocious.

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      5 months ago

      I did tech support for Sprint and the training was laughable. In the end, the goal was to get the customer to hang up, or pass the call to another equally untrained department. At the end of the day, all they cared about is whether or not you upsold the family plan and talked the customer into adding a new line, which is why I eventually was fired.