I got a live telephone report from the Phillipines on the super typhoon...

[Subdivisions]

that just made landfall there...

...from the technical support person at Charter Communications.

Nice.

[barb162]

1. Would you care to tell us about it? n/t

[Subdivisions]

3. I already did. n/t

[barb162]

4. Oh

:eyes:

[itsrobert]

5. He now will get Showtime free for 3 months

by buying the Starz package.

[itsrobert]

2. We Americans should be worried for the Filipino

tech support that maybe interrupted. :sarcasm:

[Obamanaut]

6. Spine tingling report. Thanks. nt

[Hannah Bell]

7. hey, thanks for that great report. you've really injected a valuable note of snark into a national

disaster.

classy stuff.

[Subdivisions]

13. BTW, I was able to express me concern for those in the area. Since

I studied the area in the days preceding this storm, I was able to tell the tech support guy that I was familiar with the effected area as much as I could being from Texas. I told him that I hope his countrymen and women will all be safe from the storm and that perhaps the low mountain range on that side of Luzon would buffer some of the impact and hopefully there would not be mudslides or flooding. He thanked me for the well wishes and we concluded our business.

[Codeine]

8. It's like I'm there! nt

[Canuckistanian]

9. I didn't know it was that bad

Thanks for your detailed, informative report with pictures and first-hand accounts.

We're all appreciative.

[malaise]

10. LOL

:rofl:

[nc4bo]

11. I hear ya, we have Charter too....

Horrible news about that typhoon.

[Subdivisions]

12. Wow, not a single respondent to this OP got the point.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9344604#9344640

[Canuckistanian]

14. You'll have to excuse us mere mortals

We're not up to your level in 3-dimensional snark.

[nc4bo]

15. Oh yea I did. Hence the, "I hear ya".

Followed by typhoon comment.

I gotta deal with this crap every. single. time. I need to call them and it pisses me off to NO END. Nothing personal against the people - they're usually very nice and want to be over here :S.

Umm, but yea - I got it immediately.

[nc4bo]

16. You won't want to deal with Walmart's "Straight Talk" pay as you go phone either

Tech support is also from the Philippines but I guess no one would be surprised at that.

We went the ST route because we couldn't afford ATT anymore, even their base rate is too expensive.