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.
this actually happened a smidge later, once I was interacting with the
device in response to reaching the agent, I think
my cookies appear to also have been reset, I have had to relogin to websites
> >
> > 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.