I don't generally write negative reviews if you look at my history, but this experience was so poor that I feel compelled to write a review.
I went into this at&t store to get information about a family plan. Having less tech savvy members on this plan, I've been authorized since the inception of the account to manage it.
As I enter the store, it sits completely empty with 4 people sitting at a desk staring at their phones. It's around 11:10 am. I make a slight sound to get their attention and one of the employees springs up and I explain the situation. He asks for my number and immediately tells me, that I need to get authorization as I am not the primary account holder. I tell him that is strange, but I accept and leave the store and head back home. I call at&t and find out I am an authorized account holder, so they must have made a mistake.
Not 5 minutes after that I get a call, voicemail and then text saying they made a mistake and to call them back as they've found a great plan that will save us some money. I call them back and they make some offhanded excuse that the person was "new" they had only worked there for a little over a month. When your job is to help customers look up information about their account, I don't think a month is "new". I let it slide as I am now in contact with the store manager Francisco. He now informs me that he can save me a bunch of money on my plan, but I need to come in with my Costco card. I say it's a business account and he tell me that's fine. Keep this point in mind for the rest of the story.
I drive all the way back to that at&t store and start putting things into motion. There is a better priced plan that not only is cheaper, but actually upgrades the plan for everyone involved. Great! Additionally, you can trade in a phone to get an additional discount, so I call one of the members of the plan to come over, which is about a 25 minute drive. Suddenly the manager realizes we have a "business" account, which is not eligible for the the better rate.
I've now come into this store twice. Done a call over the phone and brought another party to the store for a total of 1 hour and 30 minutes of potentially productive time lost. I am annoyed, but I understand that people make mistakes.
This is where things got bad enough that I needed to write this review. I let Francisco know that I took time out of work today to come here and I have a really busy schedule. I was perhaps fishing for a "sorry, we made a couple of mistakes today", but instead he tells me "nobody is keeping you here." I repeat "nobody is keeping you here." What kind of response is that after you've made two mistakes because you couldn't read a table of information that pulls up for you when you type in someone's phone number into a tablet?
Visibly upset, I let Francisco know that it was their mistake not mine that used up all this time and he then goes and says in a dismissively sarcastic way "well I'm not perfect."
At that point I knew the type of person I was dealing with and left the store. I hope the owner reads this review and realizes that not only are you hiring a bunch of people to sit around in an empty store to stare at their phones. They also are not being trained to do their jobs and when they ultimately make a mistake, instead of owning up to it, they make excuses. This is not a store I would visit again and it honestly makes me want to switch providers. read more