Embarq (Sprint) still blows!
I have had a long running dislike of Sprint which started when I moved to Florida. They have screwed me over with local telephone issues more times than I can count. They made me so mad that I registered the sprintblows.com domain name that I had up and active until recently. Well within the past few months, Sprint divested itself of local telephone servie in our area and the chopped off arm was now known as Embarq. It is basically the same people under a new name. Well today I verified that they still suck.
We got a call late yesterday from our one branch that their line to us was down. I looked at the router and verified it was down and had someone else in our department call it in. When I look at my work email the next morning I see a message saying the circuit was intentionally disconnected upon order of some Embarq engineer! WTF??? My boss is mad as hell when she hears this and calls them up to see what is going on. The answer she got was unbelievable. It basically went like this “… we received a disconnect order on this circuit 3 YEARS ago from Joe Shmoe (a name noone knows) and we just got around to doing it. We were doing some “cleanup” Oh my God. I mean how can they even ADMIT to this? They were just getting around to a disconnect order placed 3 years ago of our circuit by some person not affiliated with our office? What a bunch of f’in morons. Luckily the process got reversed quickly and the branch was back up by mid-morning. Man I should have kept that site up, I wonder if EmbarqBlows.com is available?