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Like many if not most New Yorkers I tend to breeze through the city “in the zone”.
Laser-focused on finding the path of least resistance to my destination.
Blocking out the city itself with shades on my face.
Deadening it’s uglier sounds via my trusty little white iPod noise-canceling headphones, tucked firmly in my ears.
So why, out of all the people to choose from, do tourists constantly choose ME to ask directions from?
Yanked from my zen-zone by a tap on the shoulder, I’ll turn to see an unfamiliar face, earnestly mouthing… something… important?
I deliberately remove one of my earphones, and say “wha?”
What I don’t say is “…have you NEVER seen an iPod ad? With the dark silhouette with the stark white IV infusing it with all-consuming audio loveliness?”
It’s all good. I don’t mind. And I always help.
But, why me?
To be honest, I didn’t think I wanted TIVO until I got TIVO.
Or, to be specific, until i got Time Warner Cable’s DVR, which is built into my cable box. But when I got it, I was instantly hooked. It’s everything they said it would be, and more. And although I don’t tape a ton of shows, the ones I do record are near, and dear to my heart.
Did I just say tape? I did.
Anyway, for some reason, this weekend, while I was away, my Time Warner DVD failed miserably to record “Real Time With Bill Maher”, “SNL”, and “At The Movies With Ebert And Roper”.
Wuh?
So I go online… and there’s not much besides some “tips” that are written for morons ala “what’s DVR?”. So I clicked on the “reach us via our ‘online form’” link… which is deader than a virtual doornail:
So I call.
Already I’m WAY past my time quotient for dealing with this mess. And I’m on hold for almost ever.
And then… I get a dial tone!
I was cut off!
So I called again, and climbed my way through the phone tree only to get cut off yet again.
Kill.
The problem here is not that I missed my precious shows, and that I cried like a little girl. The problem here is that Time Warner NY has such atrocious customer service that I don’t even know HOW to go about reporting this, or somehow asking for their help in fixing it.
And that’s one of the more important aspects of good customer service, isn’t it? When something goes wrong, in this order you:
1) Make yourself obviously available
2) Etc
So…I must ask, ever so nicely:
Time Warner New York? WTF?
