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2 Apr, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Lovely. @comcast is completely out now. No Internet, cable, or phone. “Routine system maintenance”? If it’s “routine,” then why couldn’t you have given, say, 24 hours notice so that I could plan? If it’s not routine, if it’s an outage, why call it “routine”? Highly irritating.
So, @comcastcares, so much for my getting much work done tonight. (There’s only so much that I can do using my phone’s Internet access.) thanks for nothing!🤬
The weird thing is, even though @comcast Internet goes out all too often around my part of the Detroit area, it’s very rare for the TV to go out too. Total outages are quite rare. So WTF is going on? I guess I might as well go to bed and hope I have Internet in the morning.
If @comcast doesn’t come through by 6am, I won’t be able to work from home, as I had previously planned to do, and I will NOT be happy with the company. Again. I pay a crapton of money for this.🙄
Let’s just say that it’d be REALLY annoying to have to go into the office tomorrow just because @comcast Internet is out, and I have Zoom meetings. End of rant/whine...

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