{"id":6602,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/phone-company-adds-insult-to-bill\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:29","slug":"phone-company-adds-insult-to-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/phone-company-adds-insult-to-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Phone Company Adds Insult To Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand&#8217;s largest phone company Telecom Corp. of NZ on Wednesday apologized and offered compensation to a customer after charging him a &#8220;penalty for being an arrogant [illegitimate son].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Telecom has ordered an investigation into how Auckland businessman James Storrie received the $140 charge shown on his monthly mobile phone bill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How can they speak to their clients like this?  It&#8217;s downright rude,&#8221; Storrie told the New Zealand Herald newspaper, which carried his photograph holding the objectionable bill.<\/p>\n<p>Telecom spokesman Martin Freeth said the company was appalled and embarrassed by the rude statement and had made an offer of compensation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve apologized and taking steps to stop anything like this &#8230; it&#8217;s an aberration,&#8221; Freeth told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand&#8217;s largest phone company Telecom Corp. of NZ on Wednesday apologized and offered compensation to a customer after charging him a &#8220;penalty for being an arrogant [illegitimate son].&#8221; Telecom has ordered an investigation into how Auckland businessman James Storrie received the $140 charge shown on his monthly mobile phone bill. &#8220;How can they speak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2099,409,1798],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}