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PostPosted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 3:19 am 
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I actually had a really good experience with Tech Support at Sprint Yesterday:

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me: "My new phone, which I turned on an hour and a half ago is in a loop of force close when I try to do anything.

When I tried to do the initial set up a tech had to have me factory reset to get it running, and then once that was done I tried to move an App to the SD card which started it last time, so I went to xx then xx and did a factory reset.

After that I updated the google maps app that came pre-installed as the system recommended... it did the same thing Force Close loop that will not allow me to do anything.

I am willing to do another reset... Help me please."

dude on phone: "This is messed up... you had to do two resets already? Well I am not going to waste your time with stupid crap like pulling the battery, if you did a factory reset... you knew to try that already. Let me get you to our Advanced tech department, they will either get it working or replace it."

me: "Cool thanks."

Advanced Tech: "Okay, the last tech said that you already reset the phone once? Well we are going to do so again, and if it has another problem; we will replace it.. this is not cool on a new phone."


As of this time... it is not having a problem yet.

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Corolinth wrote:


There's a problem with having people on ignore...
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That problem is relatively minor, compared to the benefits. It's also fun to see a full page of morons arguing, and only have three posts show up.

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Corolinth wrote:
That problem is relatively minor, compared to the benefits. It's also fun to see a full page of morons arguing, and only have three posts show up.

Huh? What did you say?

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 10:21 pm 
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Here's my view of things.

Where I work, scripts don't exist. Articles do, and part of the point of a good article is to reduce the troubleshooting from least likely to most likely.

It doesn't mean you have to follow the articles as written exactly, but if you escalate the escalation point is going to check your work for missed steps or missed articles.

There are frontline, senior advisors, and a very small group who try to do all of the above.

There are escalations beyond those but the majority of calls don't reach that level.

(100 a day last month - highest in November for 3 years - when most don't get that far.)

As one of the escalation points up the chain, I try to prevent escalations by collaborating with all groups.

I try to document errors to get better articles and advisors to improve the experience.

I try to prevent errors when possible.

Ultimately, in tech support, things change so much that what may be true one week may not be true the next.

The quality of advisors and escalations varies, but it's like Superman and Kryptonite.

It's a tangible reminder of his heritage and why he is who he is... as much as it hurts.

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Corolinth wrote:
That problem is relatively minor, compared to the benefits. It's also fun to see a full page of morons arguing, and only have three posts show up.


It's certainly for the best. People so pretentious as to refer to people who's posts they can't even read as morons are just going to annoy me if they respond anyway.


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