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Sprint is really pissin' me off!

dasnoobdasnoob ArkansasRegistered User regular
edited October 2009 in Social Entropy++
So with their new 'green' initiative I'm no longer receiving a paper invoice of my bill with Sprint. Instead I got a carrier transport formatted bill summary which looks like a fancy packaging of CDRs.

I request the layout guide so that I can build a custom SQL database to load my new invoice.

Oh, that's only 9 pages for the programmer's guide and 258 pages for the file layout details. D:

On top of that noone at Sprint can actually tell me how to pull the AMOUNT DUE from this pile of crap.

Why couldn't they have just generated my old invoice into a PDF and slapped it onto a CD?

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Dachau blueeeeeeeeeeessss

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  • Richard M. NixonRichard M. Nixon regular
    edited October 2009
    i was at mandarin (all you can eat chinese buffet) on saturday and some dude ate until he threw up

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  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    exercise more fatty

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Richard M. Nixon wrote: »
    i was at mandarin (all you can eat chinese buffet) on saturday and some dude ate until he threw up

    lunch with caligulas horse

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    dasnoob wrote: »
    So with their new 'green' initiative I'm no longer receiving a paper invoice of my bill with Sprint. Instead I got a carrier transport formatted bill summary which looks like a fancy packaging of CDRs.

    I request the layout guide so that I can build a custom SQL database to load my new invoice.

    Oh, that's only 9 pages for the programmer's guide and 258 pages for the file layout details. D:

    On top of that noone at Sprint can actually tell me how to pull the AMOUNT DUE from this pile of crap.

    Why couldn't they have just generated my old invoice into a PDF and slapped it onto a CD?

    grinds my gears

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  • Richard M. NixonRichard M. Nixon regular
    edited October 2009
    Fandyien wrote: »
    Richard M. Nixon wrote: »
    i was at mandarin (all you can eat chinese buffet) on saturday and some dude ate until he threw up

    lunch with caligulas horse

    he had just eaten some kind of purple ice cream so it was like old-forum-purple liquid with chunks of noodle in it

    they should have charged him extra, though because he clearly ate more than he could

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Richard M. Nixon wrote: »
    Fandyien wrote: »
    Richard M. Nixon wrote: »
    i was at mandarin (all you can eat chinese buffet) on saturday and some dude ate until he threw up

    lunch with caligulas horse

    he had just eaten some kind of purple ice cream so it was like old-forum-purple liquid with chunks of noodle in it

    they should have charged him extra, though because he clearly ate more than he could

    do you remember that dilbert comic

    you do don't you

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  • Richard M. NixonRichard M. Nixon regular
    edited October 2009
    Fandyien wrote: »
    Richard M. Nixon wrote: »
    Fandyien wrote: »
    Richard M. Nixon wrote: »
    i was at mandarin (all you can eat chinese buffet) on saturday and some dude ate until he threw up

    lunch with caligulas horse

    he had just eaten some kind of purple ice cream so it was like old-forum-purple liquid with chunks of noodle in it

    they should have charged him extra, though because he clearly ate more than he could

    do you remember that dilbert comic

    you do don't you

    i don't

    i am also re-reading the OP over and over and over and I think I may have found Zenu.

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  • Richard M. NixonRichard M. Nixon regular
    edited October 2009
    in other news, i have a google wave thing but only two people on my contacts list (one of whom is smart hero).

    does anybody else from the forum have gwave?

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    bongi, naporeon, wam, rank

    uuuh, I think that's it.


    oh there's a PA wave, nice.

    We should make an SE one

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  • Richard M. NixonRichard M. Nixon regular
    edited October 2009
    Smart Hero wrote: »
    bongi, naporeon, wam, rank

    uuuh, I think that's it.


    oh there's a PA wave, nice.

    We should make an SE one

    nap, that's who my other person is!

    I can't figure out how to make the wave public or in fact do anything useful

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    sdren

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited October 2009
    personally i'd just be pissed off that I need to build a sql database to read my fucking bill.

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  • FuzzFuzz Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    AT&T pisses me off, but my parents pay for it, so I guess that's a sweet deal.

    Thinking about getting an iPhone. I know the dropped call rate is high, but at the moment EVERY call I make is ended by being dropped anyway, so might as well have a neat phone, right?

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    i want a rotary cellphone

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    I have no idea what is going on with anything in that OP.

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  • Josiah_9Josiah_9 Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Fuzz wrote: »
    AT&T pisses me off, but my parents pay for it, so I guess that's a sweet deal.

    Thinking about getting an iPhone. I know the dropped call rate is high, but at the moment EVERY call I make is ended by being dropped anyway, so might as well have a neat phone, right?

    I've had an Iphone for a year, and maybe dropped 2 calls.

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    shit my dick

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  • Josiah_9Josiah_9 Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Fallout wrote: »
    shit my dick

    Can't argue with that.

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    i haven't any idea what that dude is talk about

    what sql database

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited October 2009
    I've never had a dropped call with my iPhone. Sometimes service is spotty, but that's it.

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  • FuzzFuzz Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Josiah_9 wrote: »
    Fuzz wrote: »
    AT&T pisses me off, but my parents pay for it, so I guess that's a sweet deal.

    Thinking about getting an iPhone. I know the dropped call rate is high, but at the moment EVERY call I make is ended by being dropped anyway, so might as well have a neat phone, right?

    I've had an Iphone for a year, and maybe dropped 2 calls.

    I'd kill for that kind of rate. Do you live in a city?

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Josiah_9 wrote: »
    Fallout wrote: »
    shit my dick

    Can't argue with that.

    we find these truths to be self-evident

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  • sonictksonictk Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Richard M. Nixon wrote: »
    Fandyien wrote: »
    Richard M. Nixon wrote: »
    i was at mandarin (all you can eat chinese buffet) on saturday and some dude ate until he threw up

    lunch with caligulas horse

    he had just eaten some kind of purple ice cream so it was like old-forum-purple liquid with chunks of noodle in it

    they should have charged him extra, though because he clearly ate more than he could
    Was it yam ice cream? It is the best flavour, better than chocolate!

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  • Richard M. NixonRichard M. Nixon regular
    edited October 2009
    sht ben franklin

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  • Josiah_9Josiah_9 Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Fuzz wrote: »
    Josiah_9 wrote: »
    Fuzz wrote: »
    AT&T pisses me off, but my parents pay for it, so I guess that's a sweet deal.

    Thinking about getting an iPhone. I know the dropped call rate is high, but at the moment EVERY call I make is ended by being dropped anyway, so might as well have a neat phone, right?

    I've had an Iphone for a year, and maybe dropped 2 calls.

    I'd kill for that kind of rate. Do you live in a city?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware,_Ohio

    Decenet coverage, but my dad lives in rural ass ohio, and have service all the way there and back.

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  • Dead LegendDead Legend Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    I get better coverage with AT&T out in BFE than I do in San Antonio.

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  • FuzzFuzz Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Once I travel out of my city I might as well shut my phone off because it quickly displays "SOS" where the bars should be. I'm not really sure why this is.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    I get my Sprint bills via email.

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  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Fandyien wrote: »
    Richard M. Nixon wrote: »
    i was at mandarin (all you can eat chinese buffet) on saturday and some dude ate until he threw up

    lunch with caligulas horse

    hey, that's no cucumber!

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    autono-wally, erotibot300 wrote: »
    Fandyien wrote: »
    Richard M. Nixon wrote: »
    i was at mandarin (all you can eat chinese buffet) on saturday and some dude ate until he threw up

    lunch with caligulas horse

    hey, that's no cucumber!

    http://instantrimshot.com/

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    with T-Mobile, I can read my complete bills online and even export the information to an Excel spreadsheet if I want!

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  • Wrench N RocketsWrench N Rockets Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    You people in your fancy-ass phones. My phone makes phone calls and that's it. Verizon sends me a bill with a number on it, and I pay that amount.

    Simplify dogies.

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  • dasnoobdasnoob ArkansasRegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Not Sprint the wireless carrier. Sprint the interexchange carrier. This is carrier to carrier billing.

    And the basic thing is why in the hell do they want me to build a database just to read their bill. Why can't they send the damn thing in PDF format if they want to save the planet.

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  • FuzzFuzz Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    My phone has a lovely crack in it.

    2dvlf05.jpg

    Edit: just noticed that Photobooth mirrors the image. Huh.. strange..

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2009
    OMG BLAIR WITCH PHONE

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  • MonoxideMonoxide Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2009
    what the hell did you do to that poor blackberry?

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  • FuzzFuzz Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    I dropped it over the weekend.

    Also, the blackberry clitoris doesn't let me scroll down and sometimes it'll randomly shut off as well.

    My parents used our free upgrade to upgrade my sister's phone because she wanted a different color. Don't get me wrong, I treat my phone well, despite it's looks.

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  • GrathGrath I'm a much happier person these days Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2009
    I love verizon

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