It’s always fun phoning my mobile phone company. Firstly there is the infuriating menu system where even the “to talk about anything else option” goes to another set of options, none of which are “to talk about anything else”. Then there are the broken systems that lead all the operators to just go to a default “please call us back later”:
Me: “Hi, I’d like to know what the costs are for using data on my current plan.”
Him: “I’m sorry sir, our accounts system is down now can you call back in a few hours time?”
Me: “Well I’d rather not, I’m not sure why you need to access my account to just tell me the plan costs though.”
Him: “Well as I say we cannot access your account so I cannot tell what plan you are on.”
Me: “Oh that’s easy I’m on plan XXX, it says so on my bill.”
Him: “Well I’m sorry I still can’t tell you what data costs you on your plan without the accounts system.”
Me: “Can you tell me what the data rates are on a standard XXX plan?”
Him: “That plan isn’t designed for data.”
Me: “So I can’t use data on it at all? I’m pretty sure I have once or twice.”
Him: “Well you can use data, it will just cost £Y per MB.”
Me: “There see, it wasn’t that hard to tell me what I wanted to know was it.” *click*