Disassociative service breakage

[Rihanna]

This term speaks of any issue where a customer cant get help because no one in customer service knows how to fix the problem because they never talk to the people who solve technical problems; the customer keeps getting bounced between providers for what appears to them to be the same service to them; or both of those issues.
The problem is that the customer cant get help. No one they can talk to knows who owns the problem, or has any information about it. The people who know how to fix the problem are so far seperated from the customer service team who provide support for the customer that the customers issue will never be resolved. So they continually insist that the problem lies not with them, but with the other provider.
This also happens with DSL customers who have a problem with their service. Theyll call their [Internet Service Provider], who will perform basic [troubleshooting], then tell them to call their [line service] provider. The line service provider will perform basic troubleshooting, then send the customer back to their ISP.