Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs

[Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many via cypherpunks]

> I got a phone 0.0 pixel 8a
>
> I got it locked, and it kicked around for some time.
>
> I took it to the provider and they said it said the imei wasn’t compatible 
> and they didn’t know what to do. Took it to another store, same thing. One 
> store sorted it out eventually, they’d seen it before … the solution was 
> sketchy but officially recognized
[they put in an active sim from another device.
 my account was made for a different phone than the one I own. they
said it would automatically adjust in a few days.]
>
> I was told I could set up a my verizon account and call support to unlock it. 
> I dialed the number and was forwarded to a chat agent and hung up on. It took 
> me a long time to realize that I could not get on-device support as-is 
> because I did not have a data plan — even though the phone, without data, had 
> loaded other things over data (recorded in my account history).
>
> The support line behaved strangely, frequently hanging up on me, sometimes 
> forwarding me to menus I had not requested.
>
> I eventually got the chat to load on another device. Depending on how things 
> would go, it would give me two different engagement stories. In one, it would 
> say it was forwarding me to a live agent and then wait forever. In another, 
> it would tell me i needed to make a my verizon account, and ask for my 
> consent to do so, and then say it encountered an error and couldn’t proceed.
>
> I eventually went to the website and made a my verizon account. However, when 
> I tried to associate my phone number, it said I could not do so.
>
> I eventually figured out I had to tell the robot on the phone, when it asked 
> me to state what I needed, that I needed to talk to an agent.
>
> When I did that, all my browser tabs closed on my other device. They are 
> still nowhere to be seen.
>
> I asked the human I finally reached to help me register for my verizon.
>
> We registered together but after going through the forms the website said it 
> encountered an internal error instead of logging me in. The agent hadn’t seen 
> that before.
>
> They did something on their end, and I tried again in a clean session with 
> different credentials. Finally, I got registered and logged in.
>
> After trying to sell me an upgrade, the agent said my phone would 
> automatically unlock after 2 months. I was told in-store it would take 3 
> months.