Why, Verizon, why?

Most days I love our Verizon service. Okay, I never love the ridiculous amount I have to pay them monthly for our TV, land line and four cell phones. But most of the time the service is great.

Except when it’s not.

All I ever want to do when the service goes out is to find out what the problem is, whether or not I can fix it, and if not, how long it will take Verizon to fix it.

I’d like something that says “call this number.” And I’d like to be able to call that number and have someone who speaks English…clearly…to be able to answer my questions.

How difficult is that for a communications company?

Apparently, it’s impossible.

No, I know there’s a “call this number” on the bill, and I eventually got someone to tweet me the same number. But it’s never an easy call.

I know there are a lot of customers and technology is fickle. But I pay hundreds of dollars a month to Verizon. Well, that is I pay hundreds of dollars a month to Verizon when I can manage to navigate their website. That’s another story. It’s better than it used to be. But still a nightmare.

So, the power went out at home yesterday. I got home after a rehearsal and there’s no Internet or land line. I reset the router. I reset the battery box at the wall (as of this writing, I’ve now been asked that question three times via Twitter). But neither of those resetting options worked. The service was still out this morning.

I looked via my iPhone at the Verizon outage chart. Even posted a picture on Instagram. It looked as though the entire eastern seaboard was out.

At the end of the day, my wife called Verizon and actually got to a live person to schedule a repair call.

He’ll probably just reset the router.

But I’ll go another night without internet at home, or television, or land line. Sure, it’s first world problem. But when your second job is the one you do at night, via the Internet, well, that’s a problem.

I guess in one sense I could be blamed for not calling last night. But when I find Verizon information that tells me on their website that 1) we’re working on the outage and 2) this is where the outages are, we’ll why would I have bothered calling?

And, in spite of that picture, no one we’ve talked to will admit that there are any problems.

I know this is a “first world problem.” And really, the inconvenience is minor. It’s the lack of good customer service that bothers me. Tell me why there’s a problem. I won’t like it, but I can accept it.

But don’t leave me in the dark. Or, in this case, in silence.

Why, Verizon, why?

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