I love my iPhone, and I love being able to walk into any AT&T store and get fabulous technical service for it without an appointment. I was out and about this week when suddenly anything involving data on my phone stopped working. I could make phone calls and text, but I couldn't check my email, check my Facebook, or surf the internet. I decided to use my Yelp phone app to find a local AT&T store to go to and... NO DATA = NO YELP APP. SHIT JUST GOT REAL.
I went old school and called my mother and had her get out a phone book to find this location and set off to find it. It is located on a pad building easily visible from the street which made it quite easy to find.
This store was full of customers and was quite busy. There were two employees waiting by the door tablets who took my name and put me on the list which is posted on a monitor suspended from the ceiling. I was sixth on the list, but I could see that one of the people ahead of me had requested a particular associate (I didn't even know you could do that) and one had requested a Spanish speaking associate so I had high hopes I might be able to jump the line a bit.
The store was brightly lit with plenty of open space. There are fluid lines in the curved drop down section of the ceiling that gave a feeling of flow and movement to the space.
It seemed like a long wait, but there were ten employees out front helping people plus the two greeting people and signing them in, so they were well equipped to handle the rush. When Michele, the employee assigned to me, approached me she was quite friendly. She asked if I wished to upgrade my phone and when I told her I was happy with my phone she laughed and made a joke about me waiting so long to see her because I was satisfied with my phone. :)
I told her what was wrong with my phone and said I hoped it was something easy that she would laugh and fix quickly. She promised not to laugh, though I told her that if she could get me back on my way quickly she had my permission to laugh all she wanted. I won't go into the embarrassing details, but she had my phone working in less than a minute and I was back on my way. Okay, I'll spill the beans, she turned it off and turned it on again and ~ voila! Seriously, that is a tech person's number one trick because it really works. It's what I usually try first with computers.
Anyway, pleasant atmosphere, efficient handling of customers, friendly and knowledgeable tech people ~ what more could I ask for? Oh, there was no charge for the tech support, there never is when I go to AT&T stores which is what I like so much about using this company for my cell service. read more