Technically, yes, this was your fault. The customer is paying YOU for service... not qwest. If you can't provide the service (regardless of the reason), then it's your fault.

In our regional area, the ABC affiliate stopped selling to DISH Network last year over the contract price. So if you had DISH (which I did), you could no longer get ABC at all. This went on for over 6 months. Do you think everyone was mad at ABC or DISH? DISH is the one that had to start giving credits and take all the phone calls.

You HAVE to have at least two separate upstreams or you are just asking for these kind of problems.

Travis
Microserv

Ryan Ghering wrote:
Yesterday, we had a long term upstream outage. Someone in Qwest killed our
ATM upstream and somehow we were getting crosstalk to another ATM PVC.
(Don't ask nobody can tell me how this was done).

In the mean time customers are calling us screaming that they need their
net. Our staff politely informs them all day long that this isn't a issue
with us, its upstream. Some customers accept that and move on for the day.

However the kicker!! One of our customers which is a dedicated 3 meg calls
up and asks, "Are you down" I say yes at this time the internet is down due
to a problem with qwest in Denver. The customer says "ok, do you have an
ETA?" I tell him no not at this time the problem is with qwest not with us.
Customer says "ok thanks" and hangs up.

Not 20 minutes later I get a phone call from the customer, he's mad as hell
and spitting nails. I only caught about 1/2 of what he had said. But it
sounded like. "Your a damn lier, I call qwest, they have NO issues anywhere.
I want my ****** Net or you can kiss my account goodbye a**hole.."

Then he hangs up. ( mind you this is a business customer )

I call him back about an hour later and he says he's canceled. And will get
service from somewhere else.

How can this be? How was this my fault?

Customers are irrational and stupid..  Agreed. lol....


Ryan

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Marlon K. Schafer <[email protected]>wrote:

  
roflol

Rick this is a GOOD thing....  Your customers call you for all problems
because YOU WILL ANSWER THE PHONE!!!!!!

Sometimes great service levels suck.  lol
marlon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Kunze" <[email protected]>
To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 5:40 PM
Subject: [WISPA] Are customers increasingly clueless? Or is it
gettingbetter?


    
Customer calls just now.  They ask if the Internet is "having trouble",
I reply that there are no outages.  She then says she called a couple of
her friends in neighboring towns and they were all down too.  She asks
if any other people have called today with problems.  I replied stating
that a day doesn't go by without someone calling with such an issue etc.

I ask her for some details, "any message on the screen?"  She says that
a message popped up that said, "No Input".  I thought to myself for a
minute and replied, "I'm unaware of any Windows message that says that."
 I asked, "This is in Explorer"?  She said, "No, she can't get Explorer
to run, nothing will run, the monitor is dark and a small message on the
blank screen says "No Input."

I would have thought that by now more of the general public would be
starting to figure some of this out.  It's discouraging to me that such
an obvious hardware issue resulted in a call to see if the Internet is
down.

Rk  <-------- slapping self in forehead!



      
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