First off, I don't feel five stars is a sufficient rating for my experience with this store and its employees. Going in, this was already going to be a difficult experience because we were transferring 3 lines from AT&T and 1 line from Sprint with two phone trade-ins and two phone unlocks. We have been wanting to leave AT&T for some time as we've been having issue upon issue with them. So, we get there and a T-Mobile associate, Britton B., is assigned to our visit; he has no idea how poorly his night is about to go. All of the issues we experience are the fault of AT&T or ourselves, and unfortunately Britton is the poor soul who had to deal with all of it. Britton starts pulling up our account with AT&T to confirm the numbers could be ported over which comes up with an error message stating the phone has not been paid off. We knew this was not correct as we had confirmed on our account that all of our phones were paid off earlier in the year and our PIN wasn't working making it seem as though we had the wrong AT&T account number despite the fact we were using the same account number that was shown on our wireless plan and bill (not the first time this had happened). Since AT&T's system denied the request, TM couldn't port over those lines until that had been resolved, so Britton proceeded doing what he could do for us which was set-up the new iPhones and porting over the phone number from the sprint account. He also performed TWO phone back ups and recoveries for the new phones because WE didn't get that done before coming in (AGAIN, I'm so, SO sorry). This means Britton's 8:00 PM closing time turned into a 10:30 PM closing time. Any normal associate would have shown some aggravation or even just exhaustion from such a long work day, but Britton never skipped a beat. He always had a smile and was very kind the entire time. He even told us to ask for him when we came back the next day to finish up the ports (most people would have just crossed their fingers that we got a different associate when we came in).
On my first call to AT&T before returning to the TM store, the AT&T associate confirmed the correct account number for me and confirmed that all of the phones we were trying to transfer were paid off. When I requested they unlock our phones, per T-Mobile's request, I was told by the AT&T rep that T-Mobile had to do that. So, I believed them and went back to TM thinking the issue was resolved. When we walked into the store, Britton immediately came over to check in with us to see how our conversation with AT&T went and see where we stood. He used the account number AT&T gave us and still received the error that our phones weren't paid off so they couldn't be unlocked and ported over. We had to call AT&T yet again and Britton even offered to speak with AT&T for us if they refused to help me again. AT&T repeatedly refused to understand that their system wasn't working properly. I went back into the TM store and Britton spoke to them for me and was able to get them to transfer me to an advanced support team to look into what was wrong with our account and, eventually, they were able to perform manual unlocks on our phones after spending over an hour that day dealing with AT&T support. Without Britton's assistance, I probably would have spent 2 hours or more trying to get AT&T to agree to work with us. He did not have to go out of his way to help us like this, but he did...again. When I came back in, Britton was busy helping other customers, so Becca L. offered to help despite not knowing everything going on with our phones. She was able to confirm the manual unlocks were successful and she finished porting over the last two phone numbers for us very quickly and we both celebrated the destruction of the old AT&T sim cards.
Throughout this entire experience, Britton was incredibly professional and showed absolutely no signs of frustration despite him having MORE than enough reason to be annoyed. Not only did he make it seem like it didn't bother him at all, he continually tried to help us feel less guilty as we apologized 30-something times for causing him so much trouble. **To his manager/RM, he deserves a raise solely based off this experience alone. To you, it was just a difficult customer experience; to us, Britton graciously handled a situation that has caused my mother severe stress and anxiety for years. Britton, you helped take a huge weight off her shoulders and I cannot thank you enough. You're an outstanding individual.** I wish I could have been able to tip him, because he more than deserved a massive tip. Please consider this my nomination for Britton for any employee awards or recognitions T-Mobile sponsors based on the experience of a very happy, new T-Mobile customer. Hats off to Becca, as well, for not running and hiding when Britton wasn't available. You're a brave soul. read more