Exactly.
My personal philosophy is this…
If someone is driving erratically and quickly, I try to let them by so they can drive away and I’ll never see them again.
If someone is driving erratically and slowly, I try to be the one to get away from them.
The key is to be away from them. I don’t want to be anywhere near when their reckless behavior causes an accident.
My gf usually works from home, but yesterday she had to go to the office. She texted me that the electric company was stopping and she asked me to sign her name to paperwork they’d have. Okay, I can do that.
So, a guy shows up. He hands me a paper and asks me to sign, “acknowledging I am shutting off your power”. I was about to argue, but I remembered my gf’s text. So, I signed her name.
Then he hands me a second clipboard, asking me to sign here, “authorizing me to turn your power on”. I signed. Nothing happened. He drove off.
Any guesses on wtf happened?
Summary
My gf’s divorce happened 20 years ago. For some reason her ex-husband’s name was still associated with the account. She decided to take it off. That required his signature, but she has no clue where he is. I’ve never met the guy.
So, the account had to be closed and a new account without his name opened. EasyPeasy.
Did they demand a deposit for the “new” account?
They did, and my gf handled that. Pretty funny situation all around
In Sint Maarten there’s a big building in Phillipsburg (the Dutch side capital) with a huge sign , THE ELECTRICITY COMPANY. I love it,
I wonder if Morgan Freeman ever shows up.
That does have a classy sound to it. If that were an American company, it would probably be Sint Maarten Electric & Gas Management Association (The acronym is…?).
It’s always ruffled my feathers how you can live somewhere for 20+ years, paying bills, etc., and — like your situation — BAM! You never existed at that address and — DOUBLE BAM! — you’re now a fresh faced, pink cheeked utilities consumer, glad to have you aboard. Give us your deposit.
Remind me someday to mention my grandfather’s phone account and the telephone he rented for 20 years prior to his death plus the 40 years after he died. Did the other relatives think to remedy the situation? They didn’t want to “make the phone company angry.”
Sometimes I really believe that the phone company makes all its revenue from deposits and interest on same. And then I grind my teeth.
Yikes!
Day 3 of Covid-19:
Popping Paxlovid and watching Captain
Kang-aroo
Now don’t tell me
I’ve nothing to do
@Jackmannii I wish you a speedy recovery.
I recently had covid and had a heck of a time.No meds.
Lost taste and smell.
Everyday I shoved my nose into the Vick’s jar awaiting sensory return.
AT&T apparently cannot stand when one of their customers does not have their mobile service included with their other bundled services.
As you may or may not be aware, DirecTV/AT&T are currently engaged in a dispute over their licensing rates with Disney+. This means that anyone using their cable service cannot watch ABC or other channels controlled by Disney+. As “compensation” for this inconvenience, cable TV customers are eligible for a $20 credit on their bill. Of course, this credit is not being given automatically; the customer has to specifically ask for it, a fact which is not well publicized. When I try to do so I first have to chat with a bot who does not understand what I’m asking for despite my repeated requests for variations of “$20 Disney discount” and finally condescends to connect me with a “live agent”. This agent (who gives their name as “Peach”) seems to understand what I’m asking for, but instead of immediately beginning the process of giving me the discount gives me a long spiel on the current mobile discount that I can get. I do finally get told that the $20 discount will be posted on my next bill.
However, I’m still annoyed that every time I contact Uverse to see if there is anything I can do to reduce my bundled bill I am immediately given a hard-sell on whatever mobile service offer they are currently pushing. I have no interest in paying a monthly fee to use my cell phone, since I don’t use it enough to justify the cost.
Last night was the best night of sleep I’ve had in a week. Finally that maddening fucking itch of a tickle in my throat was gone.
Today I took the first Covid test since the second one I took that confirmed that I was positive. It came up negative. So that “tickle” was the Covid I guess, which is either gone or at least there isn’t enough to show on a test.
I’m still coughing and sneezing like crazy and I’m going to quarantine for another day to be safe. Nobody I know who I was in contact with over the past couple of weeks got sick, including my wife and daughter who are living with me, so my efforts to stay away from people worked. And the people I was with early on, either I wasn’t too infectious yet or we got lucky.
Hopefully this is almost over. Unless I feel like total crap I’m going to be in the office Monday. Time to catch up on 2 weeks of stuff not getting done. 
I’m so glad that I was paranoid enough to not get those first rounds of Covid. By the time I did catch a case, it was milder than a cold.
In fact, I did get a bad cold recently. Someone asked how I was doing, and I said that “it’s kind of nostalgic, getting a virus that can’t kill you…”
On the phone with AT&T CS, and the lady is very helpful, but keep breathing into her mic and it’s driving me NUTS!
Yeah, I used to have a technical support job with a medical software company and one of our other support guys never knew when or maybe even how to mute his mic. Every time we had a conference call we’d have to hear him breathing, sniffling, and coughing into his mic. It was disgusting.
He was also really bad with customers (unlike the person you’re talking to) and it wasn’t long before he was fired.
I wonder how many customers they lose every time one of these disputes happens.
I am this >-< close to cancelling our DirecTV service and getting YouTube TV instead. At least it wasn’t hard for us to get our discount. I followed these instructions and got it done with no muss, no fuss. But I’m pissed about not having ABC right now. We get THREE CBS stations and they can’t find a substitute ABC affiliate for us until this silly shit is resolved?
When I tried following similar instructions, all it did was sign me on to the home page of my Uverse account. There was nothing on that page about how to request the discount, and I ended up going on a “Customer Support” chat page, with the results described in my post. This is typical of what happens whenever I try to get customer service from Uverse. Calling any of the phone numbers I have for Uverse is no more helpful.
That’s … weird. I’ll bet between the time you asked and when I did, they fixed that. I’d rather they fixed the actual problem though.
I seem to remember the last time U-verse was involved in a “contract dispute” and offered a discount it was about the same. I know that it wasn’t just a matter of clicking some buttons to get the discount.
I have a navy bean soup recipe that I’ve used for over 20 years because I like it. Every time I make it, you have to tell me that you add tomatoes and potatoes to yours. Fine. Whatever. That’s your recipe. I like mine. If you want tomatoes and potatoes, make your own soup. Notice that I’m not force-feeding you.
Maybe it’s just conversation and not a dig at my cooking, but it still irritates me!