Taking Personal Responsibility to new lows.

WTP-GC wrote:

Ralph Cramden wrote:

Lantley wrote:
Ralph Cramden wrote:

we couldn't get a very certain power company (public utility) to return our phone calls or emails. So we sent them an email (copied everyone) and told them we were going to dig right next to their primary pole and that since no one would advise us, we couldn't guarnatee that the pole wouldn't fall over. Within minutes, we got a phone call from an upper level supervisor.

LOL, that brings me back to the start of my career, in the 80s. Im a helper for a very "interesting" small time contractor. We were rebuilding a brick row home, in an old northeastern city. We had installed a new electrical service, had it inspected, and were waiting for the utility to install a meter, so we could work without running a genny and enraging the neighbors. Showing up to put the meter in was apparently something that the utility had little interest in. One day my boss had enough. He cut some 1/2" copper tubing, smashed it flat, and stuffed it into the blade holders where the meter should be. He then called the electric company and with a fake, old German accent, says, " Zis, is zee plumber. I have fixed the meter box, and zee power is on, no need for to send your donkies here to put zee meter in. Ya, it's goot, zee power is on". I can hear the customer service rep. absolutely losing her mind, on the other end of the conversation, and I'm trying hard not to LOL. By the end of the day, the new meter was in place, and a lineman is walking around, with a piece of smashed copper in his hand looking for an imaginary old German plumber, who needs a talking to, about safety.