Quick Update: MTN saw fit to refund R238 to apologize for my suffering, frustration and time wasted by this issue. That would normally buy 44mins of my time if I was speaking to a customer. But I wasn't talking to customers, I was spending hours on hold. You decide if it is a drop of oil to shut-up the squeaky wheel or just a slap in the face. I'm not convinced that R238 will motivate MTN Management to fix their customer service.
What is significant is that my loud complaining reached all the way up the corporate tree to a set of ears the were attached to some wrinkled manager who had the authority to authorize a R238 credit.
That achievement I am quite proud of because they make it so damn difficult.
My heart goes out to all the MTN Call Center Agents, every one of them was polite, capable, professional and handled my fussing appropriately. The fact that they were also totally ineffectual is not their fault, they have to work within the framework and with the tools that management give them. This is a managerial problem, not an agent problem, and management thinks R238 is appropriate.
I wish I could get a couple of hours to chat to all of the agents and motivate them to join my union. Without the power of communal bargaining those poor Call Center Bots are doomed to a life of impotent suffering. Only when they unionize will we see Managerial Motivation and Customer Satisfaction flowing freely from MTN.
For interest take a look at
my other thread where I'm preparing to spank as many 'rich managers' as have the guts to take me on. So far none, I've called them evil and not one has the inclination to show me I'm wrong. Probably they know they are exploitative but they have sold their souls for the $Golden Buck$.