[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I worked for Cellular One Boston for 8 years. Their services were great for quite a long time. We were simply beating Verizon (back then it was Nynex) like a rented mule.

Then the change came. They changed to Cingular. This was during the last year I was there.
The commisions on new number activations had gotten so low that the sales force from Corporate were like a bunch of vampires. They hired some real scumbags. At that time the number of people with active numbers who needed new phones or wanted the latest technology, outnumbered the new activations. When a salesperson found out that a customer already had an active number, they were treated as if they had the plaque. I got out just in time. The whole business is a sewer now.

[whd23]

...they were treated as if they had the plaque...

To be fair, we all have a little plaque, which is why I go to the dentists for a cleaning twice a year.