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Still pissed about the customer who called me back for a 'bad signal'
Drove 45 minutes back to a house in the suburbs last week because a guy said his cable was cutting out every night at 8 PM. I get there, check the line, everything's solid. So I ask him to show me what he means. He takes me to his bedroom where he's got the TV on, and says see right there. It's a commercial for a streaming service with a fake glitch effect. I stood there for a second thinking he was joking. He wasn't. He dead serious thought the TV was broken because of a 3 second ad. Wasted an hour of my day on that. Has anyone else had a homeowner freak out over something this dumb?
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grace_hunt8410d ago
Actually, I kinda get where that guy was coming from. Those fake glitch ads are getting super realistic these days, especially the ones that look like a signal dropout or HDMI handshake issue. Had a neighbor call me over once because his smart TV was 'freezing' during a movie - turned out it was just the menu screen animation on a streaming app. Not defending the wasted drive time, but for someone who's not tech-savvy, that ad probably looked exactly like the cable cutting out. You ever notice how those ads always hit during prime time too?
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