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Thursday, October 17
The Nosuch Sprint PCS Index
Number of phone calls needed to terminate my service with Sprint: 4. Times I got hung up on after saying I wanted to end my service: 2. How many of those hang ups were by an automated agent: 1. Minutes spent on hold trying to terminate my service: 10. Times I had to be transferred to a different department: 3. Free addition monthly minutes I was offered to stay a Sprint customer: 200. Free months of service I was offered to stay a Sprint customer: 2. Number of times I said "There is no way I want to continue doing business with Sprint, and there is nothing you can give me to change my mind, other than letting me personally slap the ever-loving crap out of the head of customer care": 3 Days until I am no longer a Sprint PCS customer: 6 Minutes I spent dancing a happy jig after terminating my contract with the most customer-hostile cellular phone provider on the planet: 2 '; } else { if(stristr($filename,"archive")) { $dir=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; $template='_01_archive.html'; $tail=strlen($template); $thisArchive=$filename; //$files=scandir($dir); $dh = opendir($dir); while (false !== ($filename = readdir($dh))) { $files[] = $filename; } sort($files); $earlyarch=""; $laterarch=""; $prevarch=""; $next=0; foreach($files as $file) { if (substr($file,-$tail)==$template) { if ($next==1) { $laterarch=$file; $earlyarch=$prevarch; $next=0; } if ($file==$thisArchive) { $next=1; } else { $prevarch=$file; $earlyarch=$prevarch; } } } $link=''; $divider=''; if(file_exists($earlyarch)) { $link='< Earlier Archive'; $divider=" | "; } if(file_exists($laterarch)) { $link=$link.$divider.'Later Archive >'; } $link=$link.' '; } } echo($link); ?> |