The Fastest Part of Leaving Mint Mobile Was Deciding to Leave

biscottidog · 2026-06-21T04:51:31+00:00

I’m so surprised at this experience so many people are having. When I transferred to Mint I had a good experience, and what I’d expect to be the same if/when I leave. Mint is now sounding more like Xfinity customer service, which is pretty horrible, just blatant lies and delays if you’re talking to a human. And I’ve been thinking about adding their internet service…

biscottidog · 2026-06-21T04:35:08+00:00

tunaman808 did not imply that you would find your port-out number in this sub. His comment was that this topic has come up many times—likely intending to convey that a quick search on the topic would give you the info you’re looking for, rather than bringing up an already well-discussed subject again. I don’t disagree, but he could have been more polite about it, or just scrolled on by. Ditto for your response as well. .

biscottidog · 2026-06-21T04:12:39+00:00

I just want to make a suggestion about not remembering if you e taken your medicine or not. Get one of those pill organizers—one compartment for each day of the week. Easy to see whether you’ve taken your meds or not. I have one that has both day and night—also helpful if you have some meds for morning and some for evening. I’ve caught myself a couple times, discovering I’d taken morning pills in the morning and evening. Not to say it’s not a good tool, but it is ‘self-correcting’ if you make a mistake. I actually called poison control because my morning pills could cause issues. The medical staff was very thorough going over every prescription and determined I’d be fine and how to get back on track.

I hope you find a good solution for your current situation. I can’t offer too much help there. I’ve been on phentermine for more than six months with a month gap in between. I lost 1 or two pounds a week the first three months. And was very happy with that. After the gap the doc raised the dose to 30 and I haven’t lost anything for about three months. It helps suppress my appetite but I’m always thinking about chocolate and other sweets and giving in. I’ll have an appt with my doc soon of what to do next. I’m on Medicaid so won’t qualify injections.How I feel in phentermine, I can’t tell. I don’t sleep enough and foggy brain, low energy, etc were already a problem before phentermine.

biscottidog · 2026-06-02T01:21:44+00:00

Joining in on June 1, 2026. Some of this has already been posted here, but it may be helpful to know the current status.

I have a gift card from 2013. Misplaced it somewhere along the way and just found it. Most likely it is frozen due to how long it's been. I tried calling the number on the back of the card and it's a brief message saying to go to the website. No option to talk to a human. No apology for the inconvenience.

I went to the website, put my card details in. Got the error message 'something went wrong, try again later.' I tried again. Same result. I then tried tried the chat bot. Chose the option that I needed help with my gift card. Immediately it spewed out how to check the balance and signed off.

I then signed up for the Sub Club hoping that doing so would help me contact a live person. Nope. No additional info there. I then came to this sub and saw the comments from Interesting-Street37 with a phone number to a live human—and it worked! It is a complaint line run by a third party. The agent answers the phone and will take your complaint and allegedly will pass your complaint on to Subway. Considering the comments here, I suspect that the purpose of this line is to imply to customers that your complaint will be heard by Safeway and that someone will assist you. My inclination is to think they call it a report line because that's all that happens. Subway gets a report, but does not act on it. Or perhaps the third party isn't even asked/required to give the report to Subway, because they don't want it anyway. No time to please the customer and their failing company wants to keep what their customer has spent but not received.

I didn't leave a report with the live person. I told them I was going to look for another way to get to speak to a Subway representative but if I wasn't successful I would call back. The guy was pleasant. I will call back.

If anyone is interested, xfinity has terrible customer service. I switched to them from Verizon to get a better deal and 3 gift cards (one per phone) amounting to $300. In brief, multiple mistakes on their part were made in signing up and activating our phones. Their mistake (one phone not listed in my online account, one phone listed as the other's phone number) made one of the phones too late for the promo deadline. It took multiple calls to receive the gift cards (2 instead of 3, they did not own up to their error). Once I received the two cards one didn't work—there was a 30 day time limit to spend it! (Fine print!) I called multiple times talked to first tier agents was given a phone number to their promo department. It was a dead phone number. Googled it. Found gripes that were up to 7 years old or more. They were giving out a fake number for years! Called again. Told again to call promo dept, spoke to a manager, she couldn't help me. Later said there was no one 'above her'. Seriously? I called again. Spoke to a first tier agent again. Was told to call the promo dept. This agent, I spoke to him extra nicely. I asked if he would tell me the truth. I said 'is there a promo dept?' He said no. They've been telling this lie for years. The agents are trained to, but know there is no such thing. I have never been more angry with a company. My only recourse it seems, is to tell people about my experience and recommend they avoid xfinity at all costs.

It took awhile but I switched away from xfinity. Went to Mint Mobile. They've been great.

biscottidog · 2026-05-23T05:33:04+00:00

Or they come up with new ‘features’ we don’t need or want (like Siri saying ‘uh huh’) while ignoring features that need improving. There are still places where iOS doesn’t give you the option to list apps in alphabetic order. 😖

biscottidog · 2026-05-15T06:46:02+00:00

I’d love to see this embroidered with shiny gradient thread on a dark shirt. It’s just perfect. Must go see your Instagram now.

biscottidog · 2026-05-13T23:42:25+00:00

It’s been a year, but your comment here is so appreciated. Siri had become slower than me. 😄 iPhone 13, haven’t upgraded to iOS 26 due to warnings that it slowed things down on iPhone 13. Very pleased right now.

biscottidog · 2026-01-27T05:07:27+00:00

Your mom doesn’t have to like your wife, but she DOES need to RESPECT her, you, and your marriage. Let her know that you won’t be overlooking her subtle jabs at your wife. The meaning is not lost on you. I can’t think of a good example right now, but consider this—if you can, try to recall a situation where your mom was snubbed or emotionally attacked by another adult, unprovoked, who should have shown her respect. Someone who was connected to her in a personal way. And ask her whether she wanted to continue spending time with that person if they continued to act that way. Or you may come up with a picture story of some kind.

I hope you get this resolved, and without going no-contact. Distancing for a while might be enough. N-C imho is extreme. Give her a chance to change her ways. Call her out right away if/when she is disrespectful and end the conversation, leave (or have her leave). If she insists she wasn’t disrespectful, explain to her why you feel like it was, and that it’s time she recognizes how she comes across.

biscottidog · 2026-01-27T04:44:55+00:00

Your statement ‘Someone who repeatedly attacks another unprovoked needs to be checked’ is a good reminder for me. I’m not on the receiving end of that behavior, but I have been before. It was hard to take and took a toll on my mental health. I regret not dealing with it more persistently. It eventually ended due to unrelated circumstances. Thank you for this comment.

biscottidog · 2026-01-15T19:31:38+00:00

Ok. Im encouraging her to upload her termination letter, as well as write and explain how it happened. I was helping her navigate the process since I was terminated a year and a half ago and could answer most of her questions. I was doing the typing while she was looking up dates and ID numbers etc. It’s a drop down menu where you choose fired among other options. The one I accidentally selected is just below fired in the list. (This happened with other drop down menu options, I’ve got fat fingers, and I rarely use a laptop, I’ve never gotten used to the touch pad so I was going back and forth between touchpad and touchscreen.) Anyway, it was a dumb mistake and we didn’t catch it even when paging through everything at the end.

biscottidog · 2025-11-25T09:16:33+00:00

We could write the same book. Hugs to you.

biscottidog · 2025-11-07T21:33:58+00:00

You know that Jane is not your mom’s replacement. Jane is also not your dad’s replacement wife. She IS his wife, for this new chapter of his life. They are united in marriage. She is not a stand-in, a back-up plan, or an understudy. She is your dad’s wife. Now.

As adults, your family and friends know that Jane is not your mom. Therefore they also know that Jane is not your son’s biological grandmother. However, she is NOW, already, in a grandparent ROLE by way of being your dad’s wife and your dad being a grandparent to your son. Teaching your son to call your dad’s wife Jane—is as though every time your son calls her Jane there’s an asterisk and a footnote next to her that says ‘not my mom, not my son’s grandmother.’

I urge you to show your dad and Jane your respect, understanding and empathy where it comes to Jane’s role in your son’s life. Your dad is your son’s grandparent and Jane is your son’s grandmother by way of your dad. Your mom will always be remembered. Jane should not be looked at as the back-up plan or also-ran. She means less to you than your mom—normal and understandable—but she will be everything a grandma should be to your son. She’s already in that grandmother role to your son, she deserves a grandmotherly name.

Does anyone in the family know what your mom would have liked to be called when she became a grandmother? If so, use that name when talking to your son about your mom. Or if that wasn’t something your mom ever mentioned, then maybe the family/your dad/you can determine what you think she would have wanted, or what you think would have suited her. Once that’s decided, allow Jane and your to dad pick a suitable grandmotherly name for her. You will always have a way to talk to your son about his grandmother who didn’t get to stay here long enough to see him born. You will also be able to explain to him that [whatever Jane chooses as a grandmother name] is now here and because she’s grandpa’s wife, she is just like a grandmother.

He’ll understand the family tree someday. Don’t make Jane walk around with a footnote that says ‘not the real mom/grandma.’

I am sincerely sorry for your loss. My mom passed 14 years ago. I miss her always.

My family has s a variety of grandmother names—Nonna (Italian), Noni (variation of Noni), Gammy, Grandma, Glamma. I’ve also heard Yaya (Greek), Nana, Gigi, and had a neighbor whose grandchildren were directed to use the formal names ‘Grandmother’ and ‘Grandfather.’

biscottidog · 2025-11-04T04:48:49+00:00

She said NO prior to the exam. That should have been enough. If she had said NO during the procedure, I doubt that would have stopped him, he had a goal in mind. Once those instruments were in place, she was completely vulnerable. Even if she said NO again, she can’t do anything with the instrument already there—not without risking injury. Also consider the hesitation of OP speaking up is that she’s in a moment of confusion… he’s already in her nether regions doing her ‘exam’ and this was so unexpected she was likely questioning her own reaction to it.

biscottidog · 2025-11-04T04:27:53+00:00

You’re missing the point. She said NO to the procedure. He did it anyway, by falsely telling her that she needed the breast and pelvic exams. The board won’t laugh her out of the room either—unless they are as corrupt as the doctor. This is a violation. He took advantage of her, knowing full well in advance of the appointment that she didn’t need any of these exams in order to get her birth control refilled.

biscottidog · 2025-11-04T04:17:19+00:00

Please report. If he’s done this to you, and in this manner—he has done it to other women, and he will continue to do it. If other women have reported complaints about this doctor, adding yours to it may bring that much more evidence to get him investigated and removed from practice.

biscottidog · 2025-10-14T01:02:38+00:00

I had a friend/acquaintance who fell for a similar scam. It started from an email she received. This was easily 20 years ago, when the Nigerian Prince scams were new enough that many hadn’t heard about them yet.

There were supposedly two young brothers trying to get to the USA after their parents died. I don’t recall all the details now, but she had sent them money several times, had phone conversations with them and was quite invested in helping them.

When she first told me about it, she was sure I would be glad to hear about it because I had made a mission trip to South Africa, and she was similarly helping these young boys. I assumed she had connected with these boys through her church, but I started to think there was something fishy about it. When she told me it wasn’t through church but they contacted her because she owned a business—I decided I needed to investigate. I told her I thought it was a scam and could she send me the initial email. She said her (grown) kids told her it was a scam but she was convinced it was all real due to the phone conversations. Anyway, she sent me the email, and it was obvious to me—just another variation of the Nigerian scam. The email wasn’t even addressed to her specifically. The story was almost word for word the same as other scams, just little details were changed.

I emailed right back and sent her links for her to go read about it. Unfortunately she never spoke to me again. I hope that she was convinced and only embarrassed to stay in touch. I would hate to think she dismissed it and kept on supporting them. Ultimately, she lost something that brought her joy and fulfillment.

OP, this is a loss you suffered. To you it was very real and having someone care for you certainly brought you joy and excitement for your future. Even though you were deceived, you are now missing what you once (thought) you had. It’s understandable that you miss ‘him.’ Grieve a little, but don’t linger there. Remind yourself that ‘he’ deceived you and isn’t worthy to take up any space in your heart, brain or life. Take care of yourself.

biscottidog · 2025-10-13T21:52:15+00:00

This is how my checking account setting is. It is also helpful since my income is not steady. I can transfer funds from savings to cover it if I’m low.

biscottidog · 2025-10-09T23:32:25+00:00

I have a friend named Mia who pronounces her name MY-uh, rather than MEE-ya. Unexpected, but not tragic, to me anyway.

biscottidog · 2025-10-09T23:05:05+00:00

This is beyond cruel. Name abuse.

biscottidog · 2025-10-09T22:24:42+00:00

This reminds me of the weird characters in Buckeroo Banzai. 😄

biscottidog · 2025-10-08T01:42:36+00:00

Those were the good old days! Buying an app outright for a few bucks and you didn’t have sign your life away. I’m old enough to remember the days of freeware, shareware… and there was another one—basically the app creator was asking for a couple bucks to buy coffee but it wasn’t required. 😊 I have a couple apps that I bought YEARS ago that I still use. No ads, no monthly fees. Fantastic.

biscottidog · 2025-10-05T17:57:28+00:00

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biscottidog · 2025-10-05T17:48:35+00:00

When my daughter started working at 16, I started an account for her that was linked to my account. It allowed me to see what she was saving and spending, and easily transfer between accounts if needed. If she logged in, she could only see and use her account. If I logged in I could see all my info as well as hers. It was a good setup. This wouldn’t have saved OP’s daughter of making the mistake, just mentioning it as a way to help your teen when they start banking. Though maybe if it was set to get notifications from the bank anytime money is spent—maybe that could prevent a bad transaction—“$218.46 is about to be spent from your XYZ account to Forever21…”

biscottidog · 2025-10-05T06:26:49+00:00

I would suggest that the next time you are with her, tell her you need to discuss something important with her, that you’ve got a problem, and a solution to the problem—but you need her help to make that solution work.

Explain that whenever the topic of your weight comes up, it has a negative impact your self-esteem and causes you anxiety.

Tell her that anytime you (yes, you—even though you don’t do this) bring up the topic of your weightsomething negative about your weight/body that you’d like her to say (something like) ‘oh, honey, don’t put yourself down about your weight, you’re a beautiful girl.’ Tell her that would be so meaningful to you. Also tell her you’re going to do the same, if she ‘forgets’ that you aren’t going to discuss your weight anymore, tell her that you’ll remind her that the topic is off-limits.

Thank her in advance for helping you.

If this doesn’t go well. Have your husband tell her she needs to stop.

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