As a former employee of this godforsaken company, let me tell you for certain that they don't give a damn about either their customers or their employees. Permit me to elaborate:

1) Employees were told during the interviews that the company would work with their schedule. Soon as we're hired on, we're told "You work around Dish Network, not the other way around." Several employees turned in their gear because of that...we didn't want to spend the rest of our lives working for some miserable piece of shit company who thought that they were the center of the universe!

2) Agents are basically told that we have no power. That if we give more than a $5 adjustment, we're going to get lit up like a Christmas tree. We basically have to do a giant circle jerk just to get the right adjustments in!

3) We're not even allowed to set up for a technician to come out! That ability was removed from us...we now have to go through other channels- so much for cutting out the middleman.

4) They expect us to rearrange our lives for the company. For instance, anytime there's a fight/UFC event, they expect us to give up our Saturday nights. I know I for one jumped up my supervisor's ass about it, then I had to hear about it in stereo. Guess what? My days off are worth their weight in gold. I'm not going to give it up for these crack piping, asswiping, motherless lowlifes.

5) Who in their right mind expects their employees to work a regular schedule on Christmas fucking Day?!! I've been in the workforce since 2003, and never once until this past Christmas Day did I have to work that particular day. Not only was my Christmas ruined, but I didn't get to spend some much deserved time with my family. If we called in, we would be automatically fired...even if our records and our numbers were flawless. We lost 15 people in my shift alone...and they have the nerve to say they're a family company?!

6) They also force their employees into nasty shifts without any sort of option...let me be clear. I worked the day shift for them, and then without any warning, I got thrown to nights. Not evenings...graveyard, as in 1:00am to 12:00pm. No chance to acclimate myself, no chance to try for another shift, just thrown onto graveyards. I get 5 times the workload and only 1 dollar upped in pay. Now correct me if I'm wrong, if I'm doing the work of several departments then the pay should be adjusted accordingly. Never mind that my supervisor said I had the pick of the litter for what shift I got thrown to...never mind that I was told "Graveyard is optional, never mandatory."

7) Their response to 99.99% of employee complaints? "Call centers aren't for everyone. If you don't like it, there's the door." No chance to rectify, no chance to elaborate or explain.

Let me make something perfectly clear folks: Before I worked for this band of thieves and liars, I was at an acceptable weight (220, a little pudgy but not to where I'd be considered a super heavyweight), I seldom drank, I never smoked and I wasn't on any prescriptions for depression...nor did I have suicidal thoughts.

After 1 year...
My weight ballooned to 300...
I nearly killed myself three times...
I ended up being put on two antidepressants (Paxil and Trazadone)...
I smoked 2 packs a day...
Every Friday I would drink myself into a stupor...beer, wine, liquor, whatever it took to dull the pain...

Basically, I became a wreck. And rather than Dish trying to offer compassion and support? All I get is told "You need to see a doctor if you want to keep your job." When I took a second round of leave due to depression issues, despite the fact that I had a note from my doctor, I was told the leave was never approved...so I racked up absences, they claimed a bullshit issue and kicked me to the curb.

Where am I going with this? Simple...

Dish Network doesn't give a damn about anybody but themselves. Trying to get them to understand this is a living, breathing nightmare.

Dish Network will fuck their old customers...not giving them any incentive to stay and trying to charge them out the nose if they leave.

Dish Network will fuck their new customers...they have no problem lying to them.

Dish Network will fuck their employees...period. Because all we are is numbers on a grid to them. They get their 30 pieces of silver, their blood money, and we in turn get crucified.

Guess what Dish? This time, we fight back.

"If you do nothing to dissuade the wicked from their path, they will die for their guilt...but the blood will be on your hands. If you attempt to dissuade the wicked from their path, and they refuse to change, they will die for their guilt but you will be saved." Paraphrasing from Ezekiel 3:18-19.


The Iron Maverick

I have great concern over how I was recently treated as a “valued Dish customer”. I recently moved and was currently a Dish customer and have been off and on for many years. I contacted Dish two weeks prior to the move to schedule a move of my service. I explained to the customer service person that my home was all metal and so a pole would have to be used for the dish installation. I repeated this several times in our conversation and asked if I would need to supply the pole or do anything on my end and the answer given was no. The installation was scheduled for Tuesday, July 6th. I made sure that I took off from work to meet the installer who arrived at the end of the “installation window”. When he arrived he asked if Dig Tess had been there and they had not so he had to reschedule for another day for the installation. I was standing there as he scheduled the installation for Friday, July 9th between 8am-12 and explained that the reason for the re-schedule was that the ground had not been marked by Dig Tess. Let me say that during neither of these conversations was it ever brought up that I was the one who was supposed to arrange for the testing. This is new construction and I know exactly the point of entry for both the water and electricity and would have had either Dig Tess or my contractors mark the ground well in advance of the scheduled installs. So I took ANOTHER day off for the second round and by 11:30am I called to see just when the installer would be there. They acted like they had no idea that an installation was supposed to have been scheduled and would have dispatch get back with me in 30 minutes. By this time I had been on my cell phone (using my minutes) for 45 minutes. When dispatch finally called back they asked me if Dig Tess had been out there yet and I responded that they had not probably because they had not contacted them seeing as how they did not even properly schedule the second round installation. At that point she informed me that this was MY responsibility. By this time I was extremely upset as your company had cost me two work days pay and now we were looking at a third go round. I asked to speak to a Supervisor and after two attempts, disconnections and 45 minutes of cell time later I was finally connected. She informed me that she was sorry, but all of this was due to me not calling out for ground testing and having the proper preparations. I had just about had it and told her to just cancel may account and because this was a Dish MISTAKE that I would not pay an early disconnect fee and told her that when she disconnected my service to make sure that she made notations in my file that I was not to be charged because of the inconvenience and financial burden that you all had already placed on me through no fault of my own. This was stated many times so that it was made clear to her and she never refuted the statement. She disconnected the service and told me how to send back the equipment and I after all that I verified that I would not be charged and she had made notes to my account??? To that she responded “Oh no mam you will be charged because you chose to disconnect and if you want to reconnect there will be a $107 charge. Never once during the many times that I made clear that she understood that I wanted all of this noted on my account and agreement that charges would be waived did she ever say that I would be expected to pay a fee regardless. She only told me this after the disconnection I guess so that one way or another I would owe you all a fee….By this time I was just about livid with your company. I asked to speak to a top supervisor and was connected to your Corporate Office after another extended hold time. I was told by that representative that he would not waive the charge to reconnect and that if I did not want to pay the early disconnect fee then I would have to pay the other charge to reconnect my service (disconnected only in the early conversation and only because of the trouble that you all put me through) Basically you all had me over a barrel. So when it came right down to it I knew that I definitely did not want to continue to do business with a company such as this, regardless of their threats of what they were going to charge me. I have returned your equipment and will not pay any type of early service termination fee that you will try to charge to me. I guess I could turn that around and force you all to pay my lost wages for the second install – I will accept that I missed work for the 1st install. I immediately called Direct TV to have an installation done. They were out there within a couple of days and put in the pole with no issues and called prior to the installation to verify as well as after the installation was complete.
I must say that I am extremely disappointed in your company and customer service treatment. As I have said I have been a Dish customer over a span of many years and pay my payments on time and have been a good customer. After researching on the Internet about what I should do regarding this issue, it has come to my attention that this is not something that is new to EchoStar/Dish that you all have many customer relation issues as well as unfair business practices.
This is to reiterate to your company that I was not in any way at fault in this matter and am the one to suffer a financial loss of wages as well as over two hours!!! of my cell phone air time for nothing except that it was due to errors on your company’s part that no one would accept the blame for…. I will state again in writing and for legal purposes that I will not pay any kind of early termination fee, as I only terminated early due to problems arising with your company that could have been easily resolved. With the business practices shown by your company I feel sure that you all will not refund the pre-paid balance that I currently have on my account either so I won’t look for it in the mail.
I am so disappointed that business practices are the way they are these days. I feel that based on the dealings that I currently have had with Direct TV that I am in “good hands” and have been treated with nothing but respect by their customer service.

That was a letter I wrote to them in response to an installation. I received a call from their corporate and his resolution was that it was both of our faults and we should split the early disconnect fee and call it good. I told him that I was not at fault in this matter and that was not acceptable and he hung up. Just justifies my statements above.

I would like to inform you of a situation that happened on my property when one of your service man came out to my home on Aug 23 2010 . The service man name is John Hiebert. I had requested someone to come to my home and look at a wire that I was informed was not grounded. When John arrived at my property he did not want me to explain how I came to find out about the wire not being grounded or my side of the story. John began swearing and saying that my air conditioner man did not know what he was doing and he needs to leave the "dam wire" alone. Again I could not explain my situation. John became rude, loud, swearing and saying I did not know what I was talking about. Many times during the conversation John thought I was yelling but he did not hear me when many times I had informed him that I was hard of hearing and speak loudly, I even asked him to cover his own ears so he could understand what I was hearing when he was talking. John continued to speak to me in a loud rude manner and my grandchildren and daughter in law who were visiting from Canada were woken up because of him yelling at me. John continued to swear and yell that he was just going to "rip the damn switch out". It is at that time I asked him to leave my property. On leaving he was continuing to swear and that he would leave when he got ready to leave. I threatend to call Police and told the man to wait off my property. It should be noted that I am a 70 year handicapped lady and I felt very threatend by this person, and embarassed to have been addressed in such a manner in the presence of my grand children and daughter. Please contact me by telephone for further information 318 253 8780. Yours Thankfully Anita Holley

robot phone service they pass you on to different departments never solving the complaint over 30 minutes on phone 3 different times jd powers award for service give me a break

Dish Network removed a channel from my program lineup and moved it to a higher tier which would require me to pay more money to get it back.
Dish Network did this without prior notification or compensation, and when I complained about it they basically ignored my complaint.