Technical Difficulties

Once again, thanks to the ineptitude of Verizon DSL, we have no interwebs at my office. I was forced to resort to using the telephone in order to communicate with people. What is this, 'Little House on the Prairie'?

For anyone that doesn't know, Verizon DSL is a separate company from Verizon Wireless or other Verizon services. The sole purpose, service and reason for Verizon DSL to exist is to provide DSL Internet connections. Today is the second day in less than a week and sixth time in less than a year that Verizon DSL was unable to deliver DSL service to my office.

Sorry to rant about this it's just very frustrating. So now, I'm back home and can return you to your regularly scheduled pop-o-matic posting (already in progress):

... and that's how I got crabs from Madonna.

Verizon Finds New Ways To Suck

I've written several posts sharing my personal Verizon disaster stories. I write these posts to both release my own frustrations but also to make others aware of what a terrible company Verizon is. Hopefully you might remember all the problems I've had with Verizon the next time you find yourself with a choice between Verizon and another company.

Fortunately, the latest Verizon sucks story doesn't affect me since I'm no longer a Verizon victum, oops, I mean customer.

According to an article on The Consumerist, Verizon is adding a new lengthy greeting to its voice mail that all customers will have to listen when checking their messages. This is more than just annoying, it means Verizon customers will using more of their minutes every time they check their messages.

Verizon DSL Sucks (Yes, Again)

It what is inadvertantly becoming a recurring post, once again I bring you Verizon DSL Sucks.

For the second time in less than a month,
we have no internet connection at work. This time, Verizon tried to tell us that the entire city was out. Can anyone else out there confirm or refute that for me. Fortunately, we have cable internet at home and rather than wait for Verizon to fix the office connection - I came home so I could get some work done.

Verizon DSL Sucks

After a tumultuous experience with Verizon DSL that took 5 months to rectify, I swore to never use their service again. Unfortunately, my office uses Verizon DSL and for the second time in roughly two months, we have no internet service at work.

We lost our connection yesterday afternoon mysteriously and incredibly coincidentally right after a Verizon technician arrived at our building to install internet lines for the office across that hall. While the technician refused to admit he was the cause of our outage, a Verizon customer service rep who our office manager was dealing with told us that the technician was absolutely the reason we lost service. This technician, who was still in our building, couldn't fix our problem, the one he was responsible for, because the home office hadn't issued him a work order for it. You've got to love corporate America.

Our customer service rep told the office manager that a new technician would be there to fix the problem this morning at 8am. This caused the whole office to laugh. Its now 2:00 and I'm still working from home where my cable internet connection is up and running.