u/Isa-Me-Again

As my title says, I won't ever say this to my kids. I just need to say what I've been thinking for a long time now. I HATE being a parent..The fun times are fun, but most of the times are not fun and are just a lot of work. It's soul draining and I feel like I made the wrong decision for the selfish person that I am.

I will continue on, dragging myself out of bed every day because it's the right thing and providing them a good life and never letting them know I'm misserable, but I have no motivation to live the life I'm living and regret my life's choices deeply.

Exactly what the title says. Vivint called and offered me a deal to pay $15 and they will forgive the rest of my past due balance. I agreed, and set up a payment for the next day when I got paid and they set up auto-pay for the same day as the payment.

The next morning, the $15 charged to my account and shortly after the auto pay attempted to charge the rest to my account.

The way it works is you pay the fee and within a couple of days they will process the credit to your account. The problem is, they're setting up auto-pay to charge before the credit processes to your account and autopay attempts to charge the rest before they give you the credit.

I was lucky and had my card locked when they tried to charge the rest. What an absolute scam. Holy crap.

:edit: to add that I did get the credit after a couple of days. However, they would have charged my card if it was unlocked before the credit processed and I would have been SOL.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but I definitely did.

1. Don't quick synthesize to level your jobs. I was going out and gathering mass amounts of materials and just quick synthesizing everything. I absolutely hated sitting there and crafting them high quality one by one. Which leads to my next tip.

2. Learn macros for crafting high quality gear. I learned about them about a week before I started using them. They seemed intimidating. They absolutely are not. They are extremely easy, and once you learn them it changes everything lol. It's still 2 clicks per craft, but it's not nearly as bad as just sitting there mass crafting the same thing in high quality manually.

3. If you are on a preferred/preferred+ world, Don't be afraid to craft a few extra items that are required for the job quests. They sell like hotcakes on the market.

4. Gather your own materials and don't buy them. Especially if you're on a preferred world. Everything is highly inflated for early level crafting materials, and it really doesn't take a lot of materials if you do the above method. I get like four times the experience from crafting them with macros than I do with crafting with quick synthesis meaning you don't need nearly as many materials.

Anyway, I hope someone finds this useful. Thanks for coming to a noob's guide for noobs. Have a good one!

::update:: a 1 hour and 38 minute call later and the fiber rep stated they did a firmware update last night that went sideways and they should have it reset in a couple of hours. They also stated that they are going to be sending out an email regarding the outage shortly.

I work from home and can't even get them to email me something saying there is an outage. My employer is very strict about requiring proof. The wait times are insane. I'm trying to figure out what to do.

They offered me a T-Mobile hotspot as a backup but I live in a forest with terrible cell reception. I'm very frustrated with this whole situation

It gets all the way through to where it attempts to charge my card and then gives me an "uh-oh there was a problem processing your payment" error. Every time, it puts a pending charge on one of my cards but won't go through. What in the world is going on?

:edit: this is a copy/paste from review I left yesterday. The dates are incorrect, but the point is still valid.

:edit 2: It absolutely blows my mind how many tmobile bots are on this post. Look at all of the profiles of the top comments. Over half of their comments are on the tmobile sub doing exactly this and upvoting each other. Jesus man, the internet really is dead.

I don't get paid until Friday so the bill will be about 4 days late when it's paid, but the bill isn't due until tomorrow. This is the second time they have disconnected my service early. The due date is 05/17/2026 and today is only 05/16/2026. I have a notice on my account that says it was disconnected due to non-payment. I've had to call both times this has happened and have my service reconnected.

I'm over this. Add the fact that the internet just randomly drops once or twice a day in the middle of work(I work from home) and T-Mobile fiber internet service is an absolute joke and completely unreliable.

Basically what the title says. Just trying to figure out what the heck happened lol. Thank you in advance. Have a good one!