I started with SWBell in 1996, moved to Alltel in 1998 and was sucked into the Verizon bizzaro world when they bought Alltel.
This is not a company, it is one massive computer. The people at the offices are just worker bees feeding the computer. You cannot talk to a human being at customer service because there are so few. The few that exist are tied to their headsets from when they arrive until when they leave, but they are specialized in that they only can answer questions pertaining to their specialty area, sales, technical assist, etc. All these worker bees feed the mainframe and the CEO's sit in plush offices while the computer feeds them money, just like the useless drones in a bee hive.
This company no longer has a human touch, it is 100% machine. You cannot talk to anyone and explain a late bill. "Give us the money" has replaced "Can you hear me now?" and "Can you hear me now?" no longer comes from an ad, it is used by Verizon customers millions of times each day. If an area doesn't provide enough profit for the computer, cell towers are allowed to deteriorate to the point of being almost useless. If an area does not appear to be affluent enough, cell towers are never placed there. They have to sponge off of the cell towers in more affluent areas.
Verizon now longer has a human side, it is only a huge, uncaring computer with a suction hose attached to my bank account.