Everyone has the right to switch carriers if they do not like who they are with. Remember, the grass isn't always greener in a competitors yard. Also, whether it's right, wrong, or indifferent you should NEVER hide behind the shield of "i'm the customer" therefore, I'm in the right. The problem is people feel being the customer entitles them to being rude to the employees who represent a business. In many cases the store front employees have nothing to do with the problem of the customer. Conversely, I do feel they make every attempt to help with the situation the customer brings before them. In many cases its the CUSTOMERS actions that lead to a poor experience. The customer raises their voice and displays aggressive behavior, first. The employee can only sit there with a smile, and in their head think about how badly they want to punch the person but need to keep their jobs. So the customer is just as responsible for service as an employee. If you bully a representative due to your poor behavior I don't think they will be eager to go the extra mile on your behalf. If customers excersised better restraint in difficult situations I believe the customer experience would be much better. Whether or not the employee was able to completely resolve the problem. Just my 2 cents.
This is the biggest bunch of BS I've read in a long, long time. You sound like a rep who wants to get paid as much as possible for doing as little as possible.
I'm not at all an advocate for harassing a rep, but far too often, the only way to get what you are paying your hard earned money for is to be a little rude. You are the customer. You're the one giving up your money. The first assumption on both sides should be that you are right. Anything else is plain insulting. If I buy a phone and during the sale the rep shows they know very little about it, if I'm having problems with it, why would i think they now know more about the device and its problems than i do?
I had a decent experience when i bought my OG Droid. Since then, every single experience, whether i went by myself or with someone, has been varying degrees of awful. They've been filled with nothing but misinformation and disinterest to what i actually want. I have yet to have an employee make much of an attempt to help me with what i actually want until i get a little ride with them. I try not to go overboard and i don't think i ever have, but I've come close a few times. I always start out polite, but when i come in and tell you i want a Droid Bionic and you repeatedly try to get me to buy an iPhone, I'm gonna be a bit rude to you. When i buy a Droid Ultra and you try to repeatedly sell me a "Q-1" charger, I'm gonna be rude. If i came in with a problem like the OP, and got treated like he did, I'd be rude. It's called customer service, not rep service. The customer needs to be the one being serviced. If they had a problem reps should do everything reasonably possible to fix it. If i sold him something defective he has a right to come in with a bad attitude. Reps should understand that and act accordingly, but in this day and age, they don't. The idea of "you just bought a $700 device, it's defective, so you better be nice" is completely ludicrous.
Anyone who listens to you is setting themselves up to be bulldozed by someone who is only there to get a commission.
Whenever i go in to a store my first thought is that whoever is there is going to help me and i act accordingly, but the second i see that my needs aren't being prioritized the switch gets flipped. I'm not gonna go in there, be nice no matter what, let them have their way with me, and then offer them a cigarette when they're done . Not gonna happen.
Posted from my Droid Turbo, Kelly and Ozone