Probably apocryphal but it might stimulate a better
class of complaint letter.
Complaint Letter of the Year. The
British do have a way with words.... A customer complaint
letter sent to NTL
Dear Cretins,
I have been an NTL customer since 9th July
2001, when I signed up for
your 3-in-one deal for cable TV, cable modem, and telephone. During
this
three-month period I
have encountered inadequacy of service which I had
not previously considered possible, as well
as ignorance and stupidity
of monolithic proportions. Please allow me to provide specific
details,
so that you can
either pursue your professional perogative, and seek to
rectify these difficulties - or more likely
(I suspect) so that you can
have some entertaining reading material as you while away the
working
day smoking B&H
and drinking vendor-coffee on the bog in your office:
My initial installation was cancelled
without warning, resulting in my
spending an entire Saturday sitting on my fat arse waiting for
your
technician to arrive.
When he did not arrive, I spent a further 57
minutes listening to your infuriating hold
music, and the even more
annoying Scottish robot woman telling me to look at your
helpful
website....HOW?
I alleviated the boredom by playing with my testicles for a few
minutes
- an activity at
which you are no-doubt both familiar and highly adept.
The rescheduled installation then took place
some two weeks later,
although the technician did forget to bring a number of vital tools
-
such as a drill-bit, and
his cerebrum. Two weeks later, my cable modem
had still not arrived. After 15 telephone
calls over 4 weeks my modem
arrived... six weeks after I had requested it, and begun to pay for
it.
I estimate your internet
server's downtime is roughly 35%... hours
between about 6pm -midnight, Mon-Fri, and most of the weekend. I
am
still waiting for my
telephone connection. I have made 9 calls on my
mobile to your no-help line, and have been
unhelpfully transferred to a
variety of disinterested individuals, who are it seems also
highly
skilled bollock
jugglers.
I have been
informed that a telephone line is available (and someone
will call me back); that no telephone line
is available (and someone
will call me back); that I will be transferred to someone who
knows
whether or not a
telephone line is available (and then been cut off);
that I will be transferred to someone (and
then been redirected to an
answer machine informing me that your office is closed); that I
will be
transferred to
someone and then been redirected to the irritating
Scottish robot woman...and several other
variations on this theme.
Doubtless you are no longer reading this letter, as you have at
least a
thousand other
dissatisfied customers to ignore, and also another one of
those crucially important testicle-moments
to attend to. Frankly I don't
care, it's far more satisfying as a customer to voice my
frustration's
in print than
to shout them at your unending hold music. Forgive me,
therefore, if I continue.
I thought BT were shit, that they had
attained the holy piss-pot of godawful
customer relations, that no-one, anywhere, ever, could be
more
disinterested, less
helpful or more obstructive to delivering service to
their customers. That's why I chose NTL, and
because, well, there isn't
anyone else is there? How surprised I therefore was, when I
discovered
to my
considerable dissatisfaction and disappointment what a useless
shower of bastards you truly are. You are
sputum-filled pieces of
distended rectum incompetents of the highest order.
British Telecom - wankers though they are -
shine like brilliant beacons
of success, in the filthy puss-filled mire of your seemingly
limitless
inadequacy.
Suffice to say that I have now given up on my futile and
foolhardy quest to receive any kind of
service from you. I suggest that
you cease any potential future attempts to extort payment from me
for
the services which you
have so pointedly and catastrophically failed to
deliver - any such activity will be greeted
initially with hilarity and
disbelief quickly be replaced by derision, and even perhaps
bemused
rage. I enclose two
small deposits, selected with great care from my
cats litter tray, as an expression of my
utter and complete contempt for
both you and your pointless company. I sincerely hope that they
have not
become desiccated
during transit - they were satisfyingly moist at the
time of posting, and I would feel
considerable disappointment if you did
not experience both their rich aroma and delicate texture. Consider
them
the very embodiment of
my feelings towards NTL, and its worthless
employees.
Have a nice day - may it be the last in you
miserable short life, you
irritatingly incompetent and infuriatingly unhelpful bunch of
twats.
John