{"id":683,"date":"2006-03-01T09:03:22","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T15:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nachzen.net:8080\/?p=683"},"modified":"2006-03-01T20:05:32","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T02:05:32","slug":"hell-is-a-bureaucracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"Hell Is a Bureaucracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milton called the capital of hell Pandemonium, but I think it&#8217;s more like the DMV.<\/p>\n<p>So back to our question, what is credit class two?<\/p>\n<p>This is what I asked Chuck on Sprint&#8217;s customer service number.  &#8220;It means you are limited to two phones,&#8221; he said.  Why?  &#8220;Because you&#8217;re in credit class two.&#8221;  But what does that mean?  How is that determined?  How does one get <em>out<\/em> of &#8220;Credit Class Two&#8221;?  &#8220;Uh, we don&#8217;t decide that,&#8221; said Chuck.  &#8220;Sprint decides that.  We&#8217;re just customer service.&#8221;  Well, I thought I was calling Sprint because this is the number they give.  How DO I contact Sprint?  &#8220;You have to go on the website and write them an e-mail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So I did that.  I went to sprint.com and found a place to write something.  It asked for the primary phone number and password of the account.  I knew both of these because I had to verify them every time I called Customer Service.  (I actually had to verify them twice, because the A.B. would hang up on me each time.)  But the website e-mail form wouldn&#8217;t accept them.  I tried it several times, but it told me the phone number or password were incorrect.  Finally, I wrote in the form for non-customers, detailing our obstacle, and demanding to know why we were being discriminated against.  They wrote back pretty quickly saying they needed the phone number and password.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s it,&#8221; said Michele.  &#8220;I&#8217;m going to call and tell them to release us from our contract.&#8221;  So she called the customer service number and fussed at several people.  It went something like this: &#8220;I&#8217;m being told that we are only limited to two phones.  I want to add another phone or be released from my contract.  I was not told I would be limited to the number of phones on my account when I signed up for this contract; in fact, I was told I could add more phones.  [Repeat all above.]  I&#8217;d like to speak to a manager, please.&#8221;  Repeat about five times.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, she got Mallory, who said, of course she could have another phone, and she&#8217;d sign her up for a new plan cheaper than the old one.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose the lesson here is persistence, threats, and a continuous appeal to a higher authority just might get you where you want.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jonah,&#8221; said Michele, still on the phone with Mallory, &#8220;Do we want to do this online or have you go down to the store to get your phone?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Will they let me do it at the store?&#8221; I asked, &#8220;Or will you have to come too?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Michele checked with Mallory, &#8220;No, you can do it.  All you need is my password.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you sure?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Michele checked with Mallory again, &#8220;Yes, she says she&#8217;s sure you can do it without me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Continued Later: Liars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milton called the capital of hell Pandemonium, but I think it&#8217;s more like the DMV. So back to our question, what is credit class two? This is what I asked Chuck on Sprint&#8217;s customer service number. &#8220;It means you are limited to two phones,&#8221; he said. Why? &#8220;Because you&#8217;re in credit class two.&#8221; But what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonclassified-nonsense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}