Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Cable Companies

So, I just got off the phone with my cable company.  They are very nice, very cordial, I can call them 24/7 when I have a problem and talk to a real live person.  Perfecto, yes?  Well, except for one corporate mandate: shill services they don't have.  I only have cable internet, and a local phone.  I got the local phone because it costs $10 extra a month, and they waved the cost of my modem and the installation fees.  I was having a problem with my internet, and the nice young man got it straightened for me.  Wonderful!  Then he tried to get me to buy long-distance.  I told him, no thank you, I already spent enough on my cell phone, and there was no way they were talking me out of that, and no way that spending money on their long distance would not save me money.  So, then he tried to get me to get cable.  I told him no thank you, Hulu and Netflix saw me through just fine.  And he asked me about Sports, and I told him I watched one sporting event a year, and it came on the Xbox's ESPN app.  He then tried to assassinate the character of Netflix, implying that they were inferior to his plan.  I reminded him, that the two cost me $16 a month, and suited my tastes just fine.  He tried to insist that cable was superior, and I disagreed.  I asked him how many Korean dramas they had on demand.  He didn't understand my question.  So I told him that 70% of my TV activity consisted of watching the 200 or so Korean dramas on Hulu.  Where were the cable company's.  He told me to enjoy my Hulu.  I enjoy winning, but I hate being harassed.