rant · moment 9 of 15
Sprint's 'Promise to Pay' and the Sadness of Retail Sales Jobs
from Alt Ass Eating · #57
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5 minTim and Ray riff on why Sprint is the carrier of drug dealers and human traffickers, Sprint's lenient 'promise to pay' system that enables Tim's bad credit lifestyle, and empathizing with the powerless retail salesman.
- 41:23Tim wouldn't mind being in jail compared to the powerlessness of being a cog in a retail sweaty wheel.
- 41:51Sprint store salesman sits all day waiting for someone to walk in next to Stuff and Bagel, but nobody does.
- 42:28Tim recalls a chubby Sprint salesman who related to him over pizza and seemed like a good dude.
- 42:58The salesman gets an error code when processing Tim's phone exchange because the serial number was never updated in the system.
- 43:30Tim keeps asking the salesman if he got disconnected from sales support, who won't help resolve the issue.
- 43:59Nobody at Sprint's management tried to stop Tim from leaving when he was about to make a purchase.
- 44:36Sprint's unique "Promise to Pay" program lets customers call and ask to delay paying their bill for a week or two.
- 45:10Tim notes Sprint is so unreliable it's useless even for traffickers and drug dealers compared to T-Mobile.
- 45:49Tim walked into the Sprint store at seven with an hour before closing, where the salesman had already written off another day of being a loser.
- 46:04The salesman got Tim interested in buying a new phone, but couldn't make the sale happen after an hour of trying.