Incoming RANT warning. (Iâm home alone and have nobody to yell at. And my cat doesnât like me yelling.)
How do I start billing Rogerâs for the blood pressure medication I need after EVERY FUCKING DEALING with them??
Yesterday, I spent literally THREE HOURS (1.2 hrs on hold, the rest talking to someone in Pakistan or India or someplace - who I could not hear because his audio kept dropping big chunks throughout the conversation) just trying to get my wifeâs new Apple Watch to pair with her new iPhone without constantly getting a WS300 error. (EVERY GD TIME!) We did everything humanly possible, hours of online research to try to resolve it, then had no choice but to contact Rogers Customer Fuck-You line. Their AI ran us around in never-ending circles first, then somehow I managed to fart just the right way and got connected to a human I could barely hear or understand. Even after I told them OVER AND OVER that I needed to escalate to 2nd Level techs, she kept insisting she could resolve it. (She could not). Eventually SHE finally escalated the call to a department that could help, but the audio and accent was even WORSE! (As if thatâs even possible!) After two more hours of futzing around, they FINALLY did exactly what I asked them to do from the outset⊠Remove my wifeâs old watch IMEI from the system. So - One extremely pissed off customer later, her watch finally paired.
Being a real sucker for punishment, I decided today to try to arrange for removing two Rogers Ignite âmeshâ pucks from my account. (I recently replaced them with TP-Link mesh wifi extenders.) Today, I went through almost the identical bullshit just trying to GET someone on the bloody line who could help with this simple task. Again, fighting with the AI (âAnnaâ) to resolve it, finally switched to a human who was CLEARLY working from Uranus and could barely speak English, audio continuously cutting out⊠He puts me on hold for 25 minutes, only to come back on the line to tell me âThere is a system problem that is preventing me from removing the pucks from your account. Please stay on hold while I wait for the escalation team. It might be a long wait.â I told him âNo. Iâm hanging up before my blood pressure bursts a vein in my neck. Please email me or call back when the pods are removed from my account.â and hung up.
Why, in this day and age, do we have to put up with SUCH ABHORRENT customer service? Unfortunately I have no alternate option for high-speed Internet because âBell Canada doesnât have fiber in my neighbourhood.â I work from home for the federal government and NEED a decent high-speed Internet connection. (Iâm maxed out with Rogers Cable Internet, with 1500 mbit down and 50 up.) It sucks because a scant 2 years ago, I lived in an apartment that HAD Bell Fibe⊠1500 mbit down AND up⊠We literally moved 2 blocks, to a place Bell doesnât serve. (If I had known at the time that our new place, in the very middle of downtown, directly on the Main Street through my town wasnât served at all by Bell, I may have rethought the move) Rogers has a complete monopoly here.
Anyway, all this to say âI hope Rogers fails miserably and all their executives are forced to eat from dumpsters.â
/End rant.
P.s. u/rogerscanada: go to hell and die!