So I walk into the Verizon store around 4pm and sign up on the list to be seen, after about half an hour wait this youngish light complexioned guy called me over to the little desk to help me. Now, there was a female standing there with him, a skinny woman, of Mexican-American descent (and the reason I put this info is because I did not get their names and was too disgusted to walk back into the store to ask, after departing). I do not know why she was there, it was clear to me she was either in training or the guy was.
Now before anything gets said, the dude hits me with "oh you want to open a business account, two lines? You cant do that, it has to be five lines minimum, so you can get like some apple watches and tablets to be able to get the minimum devices." Which was complete news to me since I already started applying online, and never once was this stated, on the other hand, I was able to just choose two lines when applying for buisness credit. So a clear lie, right out the gate, for no reason at all.
Then, the female proceeded to behave like one of those little jealous kids on the playground when a kid shows up with a shiny new toy that she does not have. She is instantly making small, snide, off the cuff comments to me about having my own business (implying I dont). She says, "oh, you need five lines for all your two employees." I had not told her any information about my business yet, so she was trying to be funny and also demeaning to me, the customer. But, i understand she is angry she has to work at her age, for minimum wage in a position usually occupied by college students, but that gives her no right to demean the customer because I decided to go to college and work hard so now have a successful small business. She, then in a stealthy manner looks up the business address that i put on the form and shows the guy without showing me, trying to be slick but I obviously realize this and tell the guy. Hey the address I put is not my office address, its a mailbox that i was renting when I started my company, since then we have actually leased our own offices and if you need, I have the updated address and the leasing agreement between the building and my company, showing that we are actually renting space there. I had to put the old address because thats what was linked to my business D&B account. So i explain this to him so he does not think something shady is going on (as the lady was trying to imply by showing him that its just a mailbox address). He says dont worry, you can update this later.
Meanwhile through this whole interaction the lady, if she can be called that, continues to make demeaning offhand jokes and comments about how i can buy stuff and put it as a tax write off, and if i am not doing that she can help me do that. I keep smiling and being polite. This is when they go back and say we will be back. I look up Verizon policies and see that there is no 5 line minimum, only if you want the top phone plan you have to get five lines, but you can get as many lines as you want just pick a cheaper plan. Now, I was getting fed up.
They came out from the back and tell me, something is up with my application and that I have to call a number, they cannot help me at all. I tell the guy hey, why did you tell me five line minimum when there is no such thing, he says well ya but it does not matter your application is on hold anyways. Im like, so that makes it ok to lie to a customer. So i take the number they gave me and leave.
I get on the phone and call them, it turns out its the number for the fraudulent investigations for verizon, and the lady there was very nice, and told me that the associate who was helping you actually forwarded your account application to us and was saying this is a fake account. I was completely shocked, at this behavior, even the lady there on the phone was taken back. At this point i had enough of verizon, and if they have employees like this who lie and cheat and throw shade, on their new perspective customers, I want nothing to do with them.
Lucky for me, went to Tmobile right after, gave my info, was approved for 12 business lines, and purchased only two lines like i wanted to and financed two iphone 14 pro maxes and was done in an hour.
So these two individuals literally lost Verizon a new business account with multiple lines and financed phones to go with it. And if anyone at Verizon sees this, please go find these two and give them some proper training, especially in todays cancel culture 2023, they DEFINITELY need to be retrained and reprimanded for lying and more. After these two, the people at Tmobile were a breath of fresh air, and instead of turning me in to be investigated were actually paying attention and fixed all the issues and got me approved. I run my own small business and i would never hire anyone who tries to belittle a customer only because he/ she is more successful than them, its quite honestly an embarrassment.
Armen B. read more