My WM +4

I became my mother’s person rep upon her death and my brother inherited her home. Due to his eye problems I am the trustee of his estate so it has been complicated getting most accounts switched out. Waste Management has been one of the easiest. They have been very patient and respectful and the app has been fairly easy to understand, at least for me. I was able to keep trash pickup going while the estate is being settled. When my dad died 13 years ago, it was also easy to have his name switched to my mother’s. My parents had used Waste Management for many many years and as far as I know the only pick-up they had missed one was due to a blizzard that lasted for days.

I just had to manually pay my bill for this month and last because your new autopay system screwed up and never made it’s scheduled payment. For that I got to pay a 2 dollar convenience fee because of your technical issues. When I tried to get it resolved with your customer service, they did nothing other than waste my time (heaven forbid the people you speak to on the phone be empowered to do something to help). If I’m taking time to speak to somebody the phone and you’re calling me back after I submit a customer service request then put me on the phone with somebody that isn’t going to send me to your automated system. When I went through the chat the customer service rep told me this was a known issue, why didn’t you bother to tell any of your customers?

Why didn’t you bother to make some type of information available for customers to find out what they should do if affected by said issue and how to resolve it? Why do you expect customers to fix your company’s screwups and do your work? Maybe I can give you my phone number and when it’s time for my garbage and recycling to be picked up I can go ahead and load it in the truck for you myself.

So I’ll go ahead and reiterate your company is garbage, I’m sure there are nice people who work there but as an entity your company is garbage. Your customer support is garbage, your IT system is garbage, and it kills me that I have to send you money each month.

It took 3 months to receive a trash can. When I called to check on my order status, I was told that it had been cancelled by local Evansville office. I was promised two different delivery dates… neither happened on time. During my 3 month wait, I was billed for service for the three months. It took about an hour of my time to get the charges reversed, and way to much work on my part. Then trying to pay my bill on time (because WM is very quick to stop service if even a day late)
The WM app constantly wants billing their way (auto pay, which I refuse to do.) and makes it in - easy to get to the actual payment step. Then this past weekend, I tried to pay my bill, using the app. Each method that I put in was declined (as if I had no money in the accounts or whatever). Monday, I was able to put the payment in. If anyone asks me, I will definitely not recommend WM. It will take at least 6 months to a year after all these problems to even consider telling anyone a positive note. I am on my last chance. Just hope WM decides they would like me to know they Care about customer service. I have yet to be impressed or even okay with it.