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Manassas Comcast office terrorized by an old lady with a hammer!
Posted by:
TheMeeper
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Date: October 18, 2007 08:17AM
This is pretty funny, some irate senior citizen took a hammer into the Manassas Comcast office and scared the shit out of people!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/17/AR2007101702359.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/17/AR2007101702359.html
Re: Manassas Comcast office terrorized by an old lady with a hammer!
Posted by:
trogdor!
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Date: October 18, 2007 08:54AM
Everything I've ever read about Comcast indicates that they suck. I'm inclined to believe the hammer was justified. What they need is a little competition.
Re: Manassas Comcast office terrorized by an old lady with a hammer!
Posted by:
Lurker.
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Date: October 18, 2007 09:17AM
I have to disagree. I have had Delphia, COX and Comcast. While Comcast has almost always been late, their service and digital has been great. Cox was the worst, service dropped in out all the time, always a day late, charges screwed up. Delphia would rank second worst.
I certainly don't blame the lady with the hammer. A lot of these cable companies figure since they own the cable lines they can do whatever they want. All of the cable compaines need to step up their customer support!
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/18/2007 09:20AM by Lurker..
I certainly don't blame the lady with the hammer. A lot of these cable companies figure since they own the cable lines they can do whatever they want. All of the cable compaines need to step up their customer support!
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/18/2007 09:20AM by Lurker..
Re: Manassas Comcast office terrorized by an old lady with a hammer!
Posted by:
slimey
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Date: October 18, 2007 09:36AM
She only did what I have felt like doing sometimes. Ive never had Comcast, but
when I wind up talking to Ranjeesh in Bombay about a technical problem here in
Fairfax, I want to reach through the phone and whack him upside the head.
For English, press (1), For Espanol, press (2), For Vietnamese, press (3), For
Arabic, press (4), etc....etc...."Preez sta on rine an a cutomah suvis weel bee
wis you"
Becha Comcast management had a discussion after the Manassas incident on how
they could improve their customer service.
when I wind up talking to Ranjeesh in Bombay about a technical problem here in
Fairfax, I want to reach through the phone and whack him upside the head.
For English, press (1), For Espanol, press (2), For Vietnamese, press (3), For
Arabic, press (4), etc....etc...."Preez sta on rine an a cutomah suvis weel bee
wis you"
Becha Comcast management had a discussion after the Manassas incident on how
they could improve their customer service.
Re: Manassas Comcast office terrorized by an old lady with a hammer!
Posted by:
off topic
()
Date: October 18, 2007 01:59PM
wrong county and i dont know of anyone in fairfax county to can get comcast instead of cocks i mean cox and verizon
Re: Manassas Comcast office terrorized by an old lady with a hammer!
Posted by:
Lurker.
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Date: October 18, 2007 02:28PM
off topic Wrote:
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> wrong county and i dont know of anyone in fairfax
> county to can get comcast instead of cocks i mean
> cox and verizon
Half of Fairfax County is Comcast
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> wrong county and i dont know of anyone in fairfax
> county to can get comcast instead of cocks i mean
> cox and verizon
Half of Fairfax County is Comcast
Re: Manassas Comcast office terrorized by an old lady with a hammer!
Posted by:
ffxn8v
()
Date: October 18, 2007 04:32PM
slimey Wrote:
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>
> Becha Comcast management had a discussion after
> the Manassas incident on how
> they could improve their customer service.
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...or the security policy
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>
> Becha Comcast management had a discussion after
> the Manassas incident on how
> they could improve their customer service.
_________________________________________________________
...or the security policy
Re: Manassas Comcast office terrorized by an old lady with a hammer!
Posted by:
m4ilm4n
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Date: October 18, 2007 05:41PM
Manassas is old-school Comcast, and has always been notorious for poor service and draconian network admins. There's a huge difference between that and the ex-Adelphia Comcast units, and even differences between the old Adelphia units too; Loudoun's ex-Adelphia-now-Comcast is horrible, but Fauquier's isn't too bad, and it's a damn sight better than what I had with Media General/Cox. From everything I heard about the Comcast Manassas office, "hammer time" was clearly justified.
Re: Manassas Comcast office terrorized by an old lady with a hammer!
Posted by:
trogdor!
()
Date: October 19, 2007 08:26PM
Lurker. Wrote:
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> I have to disagree. I have had Delphia, COX and
> Comcast. While Comcast has almost always been
> late, their service and digital has been great.
> Cox was the worst, service dropped in out all the
> time, always a day late, charges screwed up.
> Delphia would rank second worst.
>
> I certainly don't blame the lady with the hammer.
> A lot of these cable companies figure since they
> own the cable lines they can do whatever they
> want. All of the cable compaines need to step up
> their customer support!
I stand by my earlier comments! As if to back me up:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071019/ap_on_hi_te/comcast_data_discrimination;_ylt=Ag1YHSJJ87MPpaecqeKx49cDW7oF
Comcast blocks some Internet traffic
By PETER SVENSSON, AP Technology Writer 1 hour, 50 minutes ago
NEW YORK - Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of Net traffic equally.
ADVERTISEMENT
The interference, which The Associated Press confirmed through nationwide tests, is the most drastic example yet of data discrimination by a U.S. Internet service provider. It involves company computers masquerading as those of its users.
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> I have to disagree. I have had Delphia, COX and
> Comcast. While Comcast has almost always been
> late, their service and digital has been great.
> Cox was the worst, service dropped in out all the
> time, always a day late, charges screwed up.
> Delphia would rank second worst.
>
> I certainly don't blame the lady with the hammer.
> A lot of these cable companies figure since they
> own the cable lines they can do whatever they
> want. All of the cable compaines need to step up
> their customer support!
I stand by my earlier comments! As if to back me up:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071019/ap_on_hi_te/comcast_data_discrimination;_ylt=Ag1YHSJJ87MPpaecqeKx49cDW7oF
Comcast blocks some Internet traffic
By PETER SVENSSON, AP Technology Writer 1 hour, 50 minutes ago
NEW YORK - Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of Net traffic equally.
ADVERTISEMENT
The interference, which The Associated Press confirmed through nationwide tests, is the most drastic example yet of data discrimination by a U.S. Internet service provider. It involves company computers masquerading as those of its users.