Awww, Libshitz!! Why Exactly!

Yes ladies and gentlemen the Telcos have made being brain dead a true artform. Now I will grant you that it is of great import that Verizon is maintaining a canon of morals beyond reproach [cough, cough]. But guys if the former doctor has no problem with using this as his sir name then you should not either. If you kept this up you would lose every Jewish Russian immigrant on the lower east side of NYC. –

And Dr. Herman I. Libshitz, retired radiologist, is no pushover.

Verizon is learning this the hard way.

This spring, the 69-year-old physician and his wife, Alison, were trying to upgrade the Internet service in their summer place in Rehoboth Beach, Del. They had dial-up. They wanted DSL.

When it was time to enter their user name and create an e-mail address, Verizon wouldn’t let them complete the job.

This is how the doctor remembers it:

“We called their help line, and got a wonderful young man in the Philippines who told us:

” ‘We can’t install it because your name has - in it.’ ”

I asked the doctor how I was going to print that. He said, “Just say it’s a word contained in Libshitz.”

He’d defended his family name with his fists as a boy at 58th and Pine. He wore it proudly on his Air Force uniform during the Vietnam era when he was defending his country.

He’d displayed it on white coats at Hahnemann and Jefferson, then at Duke and Texas, where he spent most of his distinguished career, before retiring to Chestertown, Md. He’d signed it to 200 academic papers and six texts.

The doctor asked to speak with a supervisor.

Has ‘$%it’ become the new ‘black’ in the PC world of Telcodom? Sadly the CSR is just reading from a script. Glad to see that cooler heads prevailed up the chain. But really.

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