{"id":1106,"date":"2008-01-18T20:24:54","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T00:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/18\/a-ha-im-not-a-jerk\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T16:04:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T20:04:45","slug":"a-ha-im-not-a-jerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1106","title":{"rendered":"A-ha! I&#8217;m not a jerk!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being a Sprint subscriber for nearly eight years, I finally got tired of calling them every month the last few months about my bill and dumped them cold. As soon as I hung up from canceling my account, I threw their phone in the trash. Apparently, I&#8217;m not the only one (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB120066394692600583.html?mod=hps_us_whats_news\">WSJ link<\/a>);<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><!--more--><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Sprint Nextel Corp.&#8217;s shares plunged 25% as the wireless carrier reported worse-than-expected losses in cellphone subscribers and issued a gloomy outlook for 2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I feel sorry for the 4,000 people Sprint expects to lay off, I&#8217;m glad that I&#8217;m not the only person who has gotten tired of their piss-poor service. For years, I never had to call them about anything, I kept the same plan and my bill never changed, but a few months ago, crap started showing up on my bill requiring that I call and complain. They were always helpful and fixed the bill, but I was spending more time on my phone with Sprint than with anyone else. I&#8217;m an old man, I don&#8217;t tolerate change well.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, let this serve as notice to all of you who have my phone number, it doesn&#8217;t work anymore. I&#8217;m going to try to survive with a land line until I can find the perfect plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being a Sprint subscriber for nearly eight years, I finally got tired of calling them &hellip; <a title=\"A-ha! I&#8217;m not a jerk!\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1106\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A-ha! I&#8217;m not a jerk!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}