Author: wwducat

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After Years (more than a decade) T-Mobile & I end the relationship in a shitty way

T-Mobile logo pink.I transferred my number to another carrier.

T-Mobile acts these days lot more like the shitshow formerly known as SPRINT.

The relationship came to an end when one of TMobile’s representatives said, “The Plan is the plan” 

She was explaining to me that TMobile was still going to bill me $75, a full month of service, which also included service for my phone line, (cancelled on 5/31) when I was pulling the plug on the first of the month.

What’s really annoying is that I was just auto-billed my monthly $75, 3 days ago. I’d have thought that any services would be prorated.

I asked the representative if the billing was pre or post paid.

The little foreign girl didn’t seem to understand what I was asking and just repeated 

“The Plan is the Plan”

As if that answered my question or concern about their billing practices.

WOW!!!!

Sprint Corp 742392705.This by the way is exactly how I felt when I finally terminated my relationship with SPRINT long distance years ago. I remember the same sort of billing bullshit and that is exactly why I avoided SPRINT as a mobile phone provider.

It’s just bad business practices and the corporate heads simply expect you to swallow it.

My new carrier is based in Georgia and their customer service folks are all American. T-Mobile’s customer service is at least partially out outside the country.

Worst case scenario I’m being billed the equivalent of Alimony for breaking up with T-Mobile. Thankfully it’s only one month.

Depending on what they do, I may or may not report their behavior to the FCC and Better Business bureau.

At this point, I could see putting T-Mobile on the “Avoid at all Costs” list. 

Recently, I’ve been wondering, am I the only person noticing that customer service is getting worse and worse?

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Porting gone wrong!

Well that was an EPIC Fail!

I decided that I wanted to get a cheaper cellular plan. I’ve been with T-mobile for years and well, recently there have been some issues that have put me off on them.

$80 a month seems excessive even though I have multiple devices.

I’m also less and less impressed with their customer service.

Anyway, I found a plan, that was probably going to be workable and signed up. After an hour or two I got a notification on my phone that a new esim was available for installation.

That’s where it all went to hell!

I wanted to keep my phone number so there was supposed to be what they call a port of the old number to the new carrier. After a really long time I got a message saying that the esim activation failed.

Immediately after that I got a message from TMobile saying that there had been changes to my account and it appears that they deleted my phone number from their systems and in the process they took away my access to the account that still has my watch and iPad connected. 

Oh and my phone can no longer make or receive phone calls. Since this is my only voice line it leaves me in an interesting situation. I can’t call customer service to ask for them to help me out.

Don’t laugh! IT’S NOT FUNNY!!!!

(Okay, yes it is kind of funny.)

So then I write the new carrier an email and explain that something has gone horribly wrong. I’m still waiting for an answer.

I’ve also found that I cannot log into the new carrier’s web site as I was told I could do. So something else has gone terribly awry. 

I will get all of this sorted out eventually.

What remains to be seen is will I still have my phone number or will there be a new number?

There is a temptation to just not have a phone number at all. I can still dial 911 from my phone. Is that all I need?

I’ve been looking into getting phone service of any kind so that I can call the new carrier. I thought, “Hey maybe I can just purchase a new plan with a new number from them, then use that number to call custom support to clear up the first problem, then cancel the plan with the new number. 

I was thinking that would make everything contained in just one phone call. 

They won’t allow me to do that. Probably something to do with the pending stuff that isn’t working in their system. 

I’m thinking that I’m going to have to buy a burner phone or at least a burner esim to get voice communications up & running again.

Thus far I’m only mildly annoyed and / or amused.

This is why I was a good Software QA person. If something can go wrong, it will go wrong on my stuff.

I wonder if VOIP is an option. I’ve got 1GB fiber. Ughhh Google Voice! I hate Google.

Anyway, I thought I’d send up this flare to let anyone who might have been trying to call me the 1 or 2 folks that is, That I’m alive and well and just having some technical difficulties.

Well it only took 4.5 hours!

I now have my phone working again and My Apple Watch is online too. Oh and I’m able to log into the customer portal.

I’m now using the new carrier to kill the rest of Tmobile

Then I need to figure out how to wipe the google talk account. But I’m wondering if it might not be a good idea to keep it just in the event that I end up in a similar situation in the future.

The devil is in the details isn’t it?

Voice mail
SMS
MMS

I haven’t had to set up these things for years! I mean decades. Migrating phones on the same carrier is pretty dang seamless in the Apple Ecosystem. So easy that you can forget the little things completely.

Since I haven’t switched carriers in a very very long time, I’d forgotten about all the settings that I’d customized. 

It’s taken me a while and I hope that my voicemail is set up correctly now! Boy, the setup is very different than I remember. 

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My God the Democrats have lost their minds!

Traitors All.I wasn’t planning to write about any political shit today. But I can’t remain silent in the face of this stupidity!

Across the nation there are Democrats celebrating that the “Evil Orange Man” was found guilty on all 34 charges. Charges of WHAT???

A bookkeeping error?  More properly, that someone in New York City didn’t like the way the book keeping was done by Trumps bookkeeper and found Trump guilty instead of trying the accountant or bookkeeper for this crime.

Fuck! These people are stupid!

But it’s worse than that. If the Republicans end up in power, regardless of Trump winning or not. The Republicans should, in my opinion go after every single one of the Democrats with questionable activities in Congress.

The best thing the Biden administration could do right now, is to disband congress, fire all the Justices in the SCOTUS appoint their own justices and Biden should declare himself dictator for life.

As angry as the people of America are about this I can’t see anything other than completely flushing the United States Constitution.

The implementation of Communist ideals is the only option left to these people. That is the only way that they could possibly intimidate the American People into submission.

Anything less, well they might be able to pull off a bloodless coup.

If the Republicans take control of congress then all these people better be running for the border to someplace without extradition.

If the Republicans use the perverted laws that the Democrats have used every one of these people would be marched out to the gallows and hung.

Honestly, if that were to happen, I’d crack open a beer and smoke a cigar to watch the executions.

Unfortunately I think we’re in for some real shit out of the Democrats in the next few months. We’ve already seen dumbass Joe making statements about the verdict today. Did anyone listen to his address?

His exit from the press conference and that evil little smile said everything we needed to know about Joe Biden.

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May 20th 2024. The Day the United States was Murdered!

Biden confused feat 2179612389.The People of the City of New York have killed us. Good Job!

I don’t want to hear a single whimper when you lose business revenue, and the few remaining decent people you may have living within the state of New York and the City of the same name.

New York, you deserve everything that is coming to you!  I honestly look forward to NYC flushing itself down the toilet.

I’m boycotting all things New York!

I’m not all for Trump as President again, but that is completely irrelevant. This is a miscarriage of Justice. I am sickened by it. It’s  destroyed our Justice system and is yet another proof that as a nation, we’re done.

Our Nation is perfectly represented by Joseph Robinette Biden. He is literally the most appropriate face to represent what is clearly a nation in accelerated decline.

What has been allowed to happen, is truly some 3rd world shit.

I’d expect to see this in North Korea, South Africa, or wherever dictators are commonplace.

I weep for our nation and while tears roll down my cheeks they evaporate almost instantly because of a white hot rage that has been ignited by this kangaroo court and the stupidity of the New York jury.

This is the same kind of stuff that spawned a Revolution against our English masters.

To some extent, setting slavery aside, it’s also part of what caused the Civil war. The North embargoed the South.

The North prevented Southern states exporting and selling their cotton to Europe well before the Southern States seceded. The North, wanted to pay pennies on the dollar per bail of cotton. They processed it, then sold it back to the South in the form of finished goods which the typical southerner couldn’t afford.

742454 confederate flag usa america united states csa civil war rebel dixie military poster 1.

The Europeans offered the Southerners better prices per bail, and made European goods available to the Southerners at better prices. In other words, Econ 101.

The North didn’t like their loss of control and made a case for embargo, and used lawfare to get what they wanted.

That led to this flag.

Technically, at the time, the polarization of the country was about 50/50 much like it is today.

Tonight I’ll raise a glass in honor of our deceased nation. I’ll shed tears, and tomorrow… Well that will attend itself.

I am frankly afraid that the leftists, the Democrats, & the Communists are going to push this to a full on shooting war. It looks like that’s what they’re wanting.

Well America, we had a good run…

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The Moth battle is over, I won!

Okay, that probably made no sense.

California moth.Here’s the scoop. 

I had the sliding door open a little too long into an evening over the Memorial Day holiday. It was a coolish night and I didn’t think the moths were out & about yet.

I also had the front windows open. I was doing stuff in the house and didn’t close the slider or the windows until well after twilight. There were a few moths flittering around but all seemed normal. I went to bed.

I was awakened later in the night by a moth that was trying to fly through the glass door in the master bedroom. The creature was trying for all the world to get to an LED light on the rail of the deck. Grrr.

The next night, was a bit cooler, I closed the front windows earlier in the evening. At some point I heard this weird sound. I followed it to the front window and there, trapped between the screen and the glass was more moths than I could count. The screen was literally alive with them. The other window in the front of the house also had a ton of moths. 

They were contained, so I didn’t think too much about them. The next morning, they were all gone. I though they’d worked their way through the gap in between the screen and the frame. 

I was wrong, they came back the next night. I couldn’t imagine why they’d returned.

Turns out they hadn’t returned, they’d been hiding in the screen and window frame, How so many fit in such small spaces is beyond me but somehow they’d done it. I discovered this when I decided to clean the screen. As I pulled the screen out of the window frame it was “Moth-Ageddon”. 

Standing there swarmed by moths, I wondered if this was the beginning of my becoming a MothMan of the west. Since the Window was open to the sky, I thought the moths would fly out. They didn’t, they doubled back into the house, every nook & cranny now had moths in it.

I finished cleaning the screen, then removed the creatures I could see, and waited for dusk. 

As darkness fell, moths began migrating toward the windows. I’d purposely kept the lights off in an attempt to corral them. Then it was vacuum time!

2 hours later, the house was apparently clear. I increased the brightness of lights and discovered I’d missed at least 75 moths all of which were now flitting toward the lamps. The vacuum dispatched these as well. There was a satisfying “thump” as each moth got sucked into the vacuum hose.

By 11PM I called myself the winner. 

At some point, I was thinking of the old Godzilla movies where Mothra and Godzilla duked it out. Now, I have a hankering to watch those movies and I’m also considering purchasing a large iguana.

If I were to have another battle like last night, I fear even the largest iguana wouldn’t have been able to keep up. The poor thing would be lying on the floor with its stomach too full to move.