Okay, I know I said I was taking a break, but this, I gotta share with you.
My sister tells me to call Sprint to see if we can extend our nice promotion of 300 free text messages a month. I call and the first agent I get sounds rather incompetent and uninterested. I tell him that we’d like to extend it or see if it can be extended, and he lets me sit on the phone for a long time without saying a word or letting me know what’s going on. After a while, he says that he can’t do it, so I tell him goodbye just to call back again and get a much more informative agent. Obviously, that was a wrong assumption. The next agent said the same thing; she couldn’t get it back on for us. However, she noticed that our text plan changed from $5/mo with 300 texts to $4/mo with 500 texts and it must have been changed with the last agent I was with.
I guess he wasn’t so bad after all.
On top of all of that, for most of Sunday, I was unable to check my online account since they were working on all that stuff. I think that whenever a company needs to do some web maintenance or upgrading of their system, they should do it during the owl hours, not during the day. The online web manager was out for the entire day, which was very inconvenient.
When I tried to log on a few days later, I could see all of my plan and phone details, but I couldn’t see my current usage details. I tried to talk to a Sprint agent through an online chat, but she was useless as well. Completely useless. I don’t even know why they have the damned chat service if every time I use it, I always get referred to calling in. Anyway, so today, I finally have the time to call Sprint without using my anytime minutes to inquire about my current usage. Do you know what they said? Because we had a small change in our plan, they were unable to give us an accurate usage amount. We would have to wait until the next billing cycle to get our information.
This… is bullshit. We had a small change in our text plan, not our voice plan. I can understand if they can’t give us a number for our texts, but to say that we can’t know what our current usage in minutes are? That’s completely ridiculous. Utterly stupid and ridiculous. Just when I thought that I couldn’t hate Sprint even more… I found out that in fact, it is possible.
And can you believe that’s just the most recent story? My other “I hate Sprint service” story has to do with my activating my new phone. See, since Sprint doesn’t use a SIM card, you have to talk to an agent in order to get your phone service switched from phone to phone. I believe that’s a very inconvenient way to handle that, but oh well. Anyway, so I bought myself a new phone and I wanted it activated. They said that I could do it online, but really, it meant that I could talk to an agent online, which, of course, I did. The online agent… was useless… again. She said I would have to call into customer service to get it activated.
Now, this kind of pisses me off because I don’t really have access to another line. Sure, I could use my roommate’s phone, but I feel awkward if I do, so I refrain from doing so as much as I can. I have a landline, but I get charged for every outgoing call that I get. With all these things in mind, how else do you expect me to get this damned phone activated? It was complete and utter crap and just more evidence that the online agents are useless.
I really, really hate Sprint. I mean, the AT&T thing was bad, but this is much worse. There is a story about how Sprint, in response to receiving the award for the worst customer service, decided to fire their customers instead of improve their customer service. I know. It sounds horrible, doesn’t it?
Just another reason why I hate Sprint.
Alright, that’s it. I have never really taken a hiatus before, usually because I never had to post so frequently before, but now I am. I can’t find myself to post everyday and I’ve got so much work ahead of me that I really need to focus on that and spending time with the people I care about outside of my apartment.
I know, I’ve attracted some people in the last few weeks and I’m very grateful for you all, I am. I’ll try and post when I have the time, but this is my little “see you later” notice because I don’t know when that will be. Work at the store has got me working much more now since a lot of the girls are leaving for various reasons, so I’ve been given a lot more hours. Work at the paper is going to make me work more since we’ve agreed to roll out with a new layout by the end of the month and there are still a bunch of things I need to sort out.
However, I’ll give you this as a present/incentive/reward, whatever you want to call it: when I do return, fully that is, I’ll give y’all a nice new pretty layout, yeah? Plus, this time away will give me time to reply to all of my comments and read all 100 of Joana’s posts.
See you when I see you. Take care, keep warm, and don’t let any bed bugs bite. I hear (from my family) that they’re a bitch.
So my sister sent me a link to try and sign up for a tutoring service, to be a tutor that is. As I’m filling out the profile, they ask me which subjects I would feel comfortable tutoring in and below, I’m going to list the first two subjects: English and Math.
English
X English - Elem
X English - Middle
_ English - HS
_ English AP - HS
_ I have a degree in English
_ SAT 1 (Verbal Portion)
Math
X Math - Elem
X Basic Math - Middle
X Pre-Algebra - Middle
X Algebra - Middle
X Algebra II - Middle
X Algebra I - HS
X Algebra II - HS
X Geometry - HS
X Trig - HS
X Pre Calculus - HS
X Calculus - HS
X Statistics - HS
_ I have a degree in Math
X SAT 1 (Math Portion)
I know that I’m an Asian American, but geez, do I have to fit the stereotype that Asians are good at math this much? I can’t help it! I loved math during school and always cheated on my English portions (before high school anyway). Anyway, hopefully I’ll land a nice weekend job or something.
So I meant to post earlier, but I got so caught up in things, that I kept putting it off and off. Well, today, I spent my Saturday as leisurely as I could. I still had to attend class, but I survived for that one hour. My next stop was to take care of my shoe problem at the shoe store, but I’ll talk about that later. When that was taken care of (and also resulting in my buying two more pairs of shoes), I treated myself to a nice pedicure. When I got home, I realized that I have no shoe space. I am completely out of shoe space despite my already putting two shoe racks on top of one another. In order to accommodate my new shoes, I started cleaning out my bookcases. As I was cleaning that out, I realized that I have a bunch of textbooks and school papers that I honestly don’t need with me anymore, so I put those in bags. I then realized that it was a rather large pile and that I wouldn’t be able to carry it home, so I got the impulsive idea that I would drive my things back home.
I chose a relatively good weekend since my parents and brother are currently on a cruise and I thought that I could slip into my house, drop off my things, and then leave. I had to do this because I know that they would not approve of me driving such a long distance all by myself, so it’s much easier this way. I rented and loaded the car and was on my way to go. When I got to my parents’ home, I realized that a few things had changed in the last month. First of all, the outhouse now has a bed (for who to sleep in, I don’t know) and that the things we used to store in there have been moved to either the garage or inside the house. Second, my dad became super paranoid and decided to lock two bedrooms, one of which doesn’t contain too many valuable items. Knowing my dad, I knew that he didn’t leave the keys behind, which was a bummer since one of the rooms I needed to get into was my old room. It made sense to me to put my old books in my old room since I still have quite a few of my boxes in there. I could have hidden my things easily, but since he locked it, I had to resort to sticking my things in the shed.
I thought that it was only going to take a total of three hours to get it all done, but instead, I decided to call up my friend C, who I had been talking to earlier in the day. We both admitted that we missed each other and couldn’t wait to spend time together again, so I thought that this would be a perfect time to do it. We caught the last showing of The Other Boleyn Girl and then drove up a hill to take a good overhead view of the city. We had a good time together and it was nice spending the time with him since I hadn’t been able to do so in so long.
The drive back to my apartment was relatively uneventful. I made an hour trip into forty minutes, but it was much easier to do so with a lot less cars on the road. Now I’m tired and I really just want to have a nice lazy Sunday morning. Good night all!
Who knew that my taking a semester off from college could cause so much more work? Well, since that happened, the university doesn’t consider me to be one of their students, so for my summer courses, I have to pay the visiting undergraduates rate which is $270/unit on top of the $385 enrollment fee. Since I plan to take a total of 8 units over the summer, my entire total comes out to be $2545! That’s absurd!
Well, I may be able to get financial aid if I register for the fall courses, but at this point, I’m only about 75-80% sure that I want to go back. The other part is really making sure that I can change my habits for the better and whatnot. I’m not too sure yet about all of that. All I know for now that I have to may that 2.5 grand up front and if not, then well, I could lose my spot in my classes. I am planning to head to the financial aid office later today to talk to one of the advisers who’s supposed to know much more about this topic.
Hopefully, I’ll either get the university rate or the financial aid. Hopefully.
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