{"id":22058,"date":"2013-01-09T19:56:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T00:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=16732"},"modified":"2016-09-19T11:47:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T08:47:59","slug":"done-with-telus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/done-with-telus\/","title":{"rendered":"Done With Telus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George at Telus probably thinks he hung up with the most unreasonable bitch on the planet tonight. Let&#8217;s just say I was a tad&#8230; short with him. I made sure to direct my words at Telus, not him specifically, but he got the message loud and clear that he better not get into this customer retention spiel.<\/p>\n<p>Telus, like all Canadian telecom companies, sucks. I&#8217;ve parted ways in the same manner with Bell and Vid\u00e9tron. I really don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;ll be doing for internet, mobile or otherwise, when I get back to Canada, but I&#8217;ve been sending Telus $40 a month for too long just to keep my account open. It was time to slam that door shut. They&#8217;ve provided great internet service, I&#8217;ll grant them that, but customer service has been vile and their prices usurious.<\/p>\n<p>I sent an email several weeks ago asking to cancel my account and included my phone number. I got two emails from George claiming that he called me and asking for a number to reach me at. I guess the phone number in bold 72 point red font in the second email finally got his attention.<\/p>\n<p>Verizon has spoiled me for life. If was wealthy, I&#8217;d pay their crazy Canadian data charges to never again have to deal with Canadian telecom companies. They are just so vile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George at Telus probably thinks he hung up with the most unreasonable bitch on the planet tonight. Let&#8217;s just say I was a tad&#8230; short with him. I made sure to direct my words at Telus, not him specifically, but he got the message loud and clear that he better not get into this customer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}