X_RatShacker

Virgin has a $20 for 400 min. or $30 for 1500min/1500txt/30MB web on a phone that comes with Opera Mini and Google Maps installed. Free GPS and all.

MetroPCS is running a $25 promotion, but try being a week or two late on the bill. You lose the time. Virgin (prepaid, but acts like a contract) always give you 30 days on all plans, without fail. Sprint service, since Sprint bought Virgin Mobile USA.

---> If you have any form of government assistance (including food stamps), it's free phones (Universal Lifeline) or pay for a smartphone, and $2.50/mo. for service, or $26.50 for unlimited talk/txt.

I've recently moved on (3 - 4 months ago) to other management when I felt the ship was sinking.

You have got to be kidding.

It was skidding when they accelerated the mobile quotas a decade ago.

(H)elp (O)ffer (O)ffer (T)ell screwed up their HOT acronym.

And drove customers away.

I am approaching my 5yr anniversary in a few months.

Promoted to customer.

To their credit, they didn't scrap the subway cars they used to get from the parking lot to the tower: http://slashdot.org/story/03/05/12/1359255/radio-shack-selling-subway-cars-on-ebay

That's where the margin is.

Parts.

They started saying "No user-serviceable parts." decades before I worked there.

Your desktop and laptop are now deemed a threat because they let you tinker.

The true meaning of "hacker," someone who makes something work. i.e "hacked it together and it works."