Horrible Customer Service. I was there for 15 minutes - no acknowledgement/greeting whatsoever - no help, no eye contact, VERY unprofessional. I know both female workers saw me as I was pacing back and forth and looking in their direction. Do I expect them to stop helping the customers they were sitting down with and help me, No. I DO expect them to say "Welcome, someone will be with you soon".
I have worked in retail, and this is a NONO. Also, one of the working was chatting away with a customer about something Not related to phone/internet issues. If a customer is waiting you DO NOT do this. Have a personal conversation if no customer is waiting. As someone who is a NEW customer and switching over to your business, NOT a good first impression to make AT&T!
After waiting 15 minutes with no interaction at all, I decided to go up to one of the ladies and ask for help. What an ordeal and hassle this was to set up my phone. My family switched over to AT&T and I was told by employee that I had to have the person who set up the account come IN PERSON to store to give me "authority" to turn phone on and they would need to see their Drivers License. What?? They could see that I am under the account - my name, my phone number, etc. Had to have AT&T call Head Account holder (since my phone wasn't turned on) and I had to ask them to stop what they were doing and drive to store to show worker their drivers license. We were told that this could NOT be done over the phone even if a photo was taken of their drivers license and sent to store. Also, once Head Account holder arrived, employee had a VERY hard actually activating my phone to AT&T network. I thought I would be there 5 min, 15 max, but this turned into an hour and 20 minutes ordeal.
Later that night I realized that my voicemail wasn't working/set-up. I have Never had to set up my voicemail when I've switched carriers and had no idea how to do this. Sigh... so the next day I called the AT&T store where I was previously at and explained issue. The female employee I spoke with didn't sound confident (or didn't want to deal with it) about being able to set up voicemail and visual voicemail. She told me to call AT&T Customer Service. I asked for the number - she said dial "000". I repeated it and said, just call "000", hit send and I will get an actual human and not a Bot. She said Yes. Well, I called "000" several times only to get a message saying "your number cannot be completed as dialed". Ughh, had to call store back gain. This time she told me that I had to dial "611" first, then "000". How was I EVER to know that???
The AT&T Customer Service tech rep I spoke with over the phone was great and was able to help me, the IN STORE AT&T employees were not. They need a refresher course on Customer Service! read more