Quarantine: I've had some misfortune calling spectrum, so I thought I'd try my luck with them face to face. I rented their router, because they always blamed my router for their slow speeds. Now with their router, they have no other recourse. Today I was returning the router because I was vacating the premises and no longer needed such quick internet speed. I got my mask on in this zombie apocalypse. I go up to the door, there's a sign: social distancing, wear a mask, don't come in if you have covid. So far so good. I sign in on their ipad, hand sanitize my hands. There is a wall between the customer service representative and the customer. Awesome. 5 stars so far, let's not ruin a good thing. Guy's coming in behind, got to hurry up and get the f- out of the way. I wait my turn. Two people working, one person ahead of me. Very short wait, looks like it's going to be a good spectrum day. The guy comes from behind his shield. I f-ing stop in my tracks. Don't come near me motherf-er, that's what the shield is for. He notices it, and goes behind his prison visiting wall. I then proceed to move forward. Later on, I noticed the manager come out to greet and elderly lady. Was this amazing customer service so the lady wouldn't have to walk so far, or was it irresponsible social distancing? Elderly should be extremely careful, and make those extra two or three steps so they don't die prematurely. Still got a lot of knitting to do. I return my router, perfectly. Everything is going great. Then we come to the second question. "Can you please unfreeze my account?" "You don't need to, your account is already active." He asks his boss if he can start a service in another location. She says no, because they are not allowed to send equipment to people out of their area. Fair enough, but I'm not starting service, I already have the equipment, I just need for you to unlock it on your end. Then the line of bullsh- starts that I'm so used to on phone calls. She tells me that they don't do the seasonal thing in Turlock, and if I did have one, it would just end whenever I had it scheduled to end, and then the service would just be reactivated. She then told the guy maybe she had to call spectrum. Makes no sense because I want to cancel the freeze earlier. Instead of being lied to on the phone, I get the pleasure of being lied to my face in like a 3d environment. I can now put a face to the lie. I'm starting to think this was a horrible idea. Because, if I get angry enough, I might not be able to control myself from slapping a bit-. On the phone, all that would hurt is my fist and the wall. My blood is beginning to boil. Then I go back to my customer service representative. "I can do this for you, or, you could call Spectrum yourself." Oh my god. O.K., let's say I got to a pizza parlor. "Hello sir, I would like a large pepperoni pizza with extra mushrooms please." "I could take that order from you and make that pizza, or you could call in for delivery at another branch and have it delivered straight to your house." There's no way in hell that guy should even infer about me calling Spectrum myself. He doesn't know how to do it, and that's understandable. I don't know everything. But when it's my f-ing job, if I don't know how to do something, I will f-ing jump through hurdles and climb walls and exhaust all options until I tell the person to f- off. So he says, he'll try. "Let me see if I can restart. Nope, didn't work. Your best bet is to call them yourself." Again with the calling. I then say, "I could call them, but maybe it would be easier as you are the employee, maybe you get a direct red phone batman line for celebrities and presidents." "Nope, our calling him is the same as you calling him." I see now. An employee of Spectrum, doesn't want to call Spectrum, because of their horrible f-ing painful customer service. I wouldn't mind seeing a real life customer service of spectrum vs another phone customer service battle. Lies upon lies and rage all the way through, people putting each other on hold, acting like they're the boss, or referring you to their boss who are actually co-workers. It would've been an epic battle. He then says, "I'll wait for my boss to get out and I'll ask her." He f-ing said this to me. Then the boss comes out and he says, "Nope, I asked my manager and you have to call in." Bro, are you a telepath? Are you telling me, you were texting the manager on your computer, and didn't physically ask a supervisor who is conveniently 6 ft away from you. He didn't ask the boss sh-. And i'm 100% sure he didn't text anyone on the computer, he was probably watching porn for all I know, or maybe the computer was out and he was looking at a blank screen the whole time. I was polite though, I didn't say, "You're a motherf-ing liar you piece of sh-." I just took my id and walked out. I'm going to show you bro, you're f-ing done. Welcome to the 5th one star yelp review you're going to get that will have absolutely no impa read more