The latest set of British Telecom adverts really make me laugh. For those who have not heard or seen the adverts, BT are offering 24/7 IT support. Now I may be missing a trick, but is this not the same BT who has one of the worst customer service records going?
Is this not the same BT that is one of the main culprits in keeping the Indian call centre business in operation.
Is this not the same BT that waste thousands of tonnes of paper printing out of date telephone directories to support their advertising revenues
Why would any business that is dependant on mission critical IT employ the services of BT for support?
If you are in business and you sign-up to this service from BT then may I kindly you offer you my deepest condolences. It would take an incredibly stupid business person to trust BT with emergency IT support. Personally, I would not trust anyone from BT to cook toast, let alone help me in my darkest business hours.
A relative had call to get in contact with BT Broadband support last week because I had identified the BT Router was buggered. So what did the Indian BT reps do? They played passed the phone call between various BT departments, it’s not right!
British Telecom is a shoddy organisation; it survives purely through lack of competition, it’s a numbers game. I refuse to have a BT line in my home ever again, I really could not entertain dealing with these feckless morons ever again.
Here are some alternatives to BT, which is supposedly meant to stand for British Telecom
BT – Bloody Trashy
BT – Bollocks Telecommunications
BT – Bastard Twats
BT – Brainless Twits
6 Responses
Phil
September 20th, 2007 at 11:04 am
1Yesterday I had similar with one of their USB modems, it just stopped talking to BT. Disconnect, reconnect – nope. Called their announcement line and my exchange wasn’t mentioned (the number for which is online). So physical disconnect , reconnect – nope. Log off, log on – nope; Total reboot – nope. So a call to the broadband support line (again the number is online).
“Have you tried reinstalling the drivers” was the first thing he asked
“No, and I’m not going to they’re fine”
“Oh I’ll test the line”
so on hold for a couple of minutes watching the modem diagnostic tripping between training and searching.
“Yeah there’s a fault, I’ll pass it through to the Advanced Fault Team that can take 4 hours and they’ll get back to you here’s your reference number”
Two hours later and without thinking I start a program that wants an internet connection it runs without me thinking and hey I’ve connected.
BT still haven’t got back to me so I’ve no idea what the fault actually was.
In the same breath I can mention someone who’s been trying to get a BT home hub fitted since the beginning of July, apparently it got installed yesterday too.
MrCrip
September 20th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
2I would say the majority of Techie’ s at BT would have trouble boiling an egg. The whole support ethos at BT is ‘REBOOT’. Frikkin useless buggers in my book.
Phil
September 20th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
3Sadly I think it’s front-line tech support’s first line of attack for anything; which I normally pre-empt by including ‘and I’ve tried rebooting’ into my opening statement whether I have or not; it’s just I can almost guarantee BT’s next line will be about reinstalling drivers.
I think it’s an attitude of what can I make you do that doesn’t involve me lifting a finger. Because it’s so much hassle to run a line test and it takes time, which looks really bad on my through-rate performance figures.
MrCrip
September 20th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
4So what we are formalising is that front-line tech support personnel are as much use as a chocolate teapot and are effectively a human firewall aimed at preventing end-users getting through to a techie with any intelligence.
Phil
September 21st, 2007 at 10:43 am
5Yup, which when you consider the average user is actually the most cost-effective approach. You don’t want to waste those highly skilled workers on people who call in to complain their computers aren’t working during a power-cut.
MrCrip
September 21st, 2007 at 1:42 pm
6You could count the highly skilled employees at BT on one hand.
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