{"id":9021,"date":"2006-06-21T22:47:33","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T22:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9021"},"modified":"2006-06-21T22:47:33","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T22:47:33","slug":"thanks-for-nothing-comcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9021","title":{"rendered":"Thanks for Nothing, Comcast!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/comcastguy.jpg\">This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CvVp7b5gzqU\" target=\"new\">adorable viral video<\/a> is such a hoot (LOVE the Eels soundtrack). It shows a Comcast tech who&#8217;d come to a guy&#8217;s house to replace a cable modem and then fell asleep on the couch after being on hold for over an hour with the home office. As the vid puts it:<\/p>\n<p> Thanks Comcast for:<\/p>\n<p> Two Broken Routers<br \/> Four Hour Appointment Blocks<br \/> Weeklong Internet Outages<br \/> Long Hold Times<br \/> High Prices<br \/> Three Missed Appointments<br \/> Promising to Call Back and Then Not Calling<br \/> Thanks for Everything<\/p>\n<p> The sad thing is that, the cable guy probably got fired for sleeping on the job (and embarrassing Comcast), while their customer service will likely do nothing to change as a result.<\/p>\n<p> [Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\" target=\"new\">Boing Boing<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This adorable viral video is such a hoot (LOVE the Eels soundtrack). It shows a Comcast tech who&#8217;d come to a guy&#8217;s house to replace a cable modem and then fell asleep on the couch after being on hold for over an hour with the home office. As the vid puts it: Thanks Comcast for: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9021\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thanks for Nothing, Comcast!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}