Open Letter to a Bunch of Mooks
Nov. 26th, 2010 08:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianDear telecoms companies of London:
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME.
See, there's this flat. It is a nice little flat. People have lived in it. Therefore, it's had the phone connected. Therefore, it should be a relatively simple feat to connect it to the existing phone lines. It always has been previously. This has never been an issue.
Your websites, however, tell me a different story. All of them seem to be of the opinion that six weeks is perfectly reasonable a time for a residence to be without a land line or internet. In this day and age ... how about no? No, it is not reasonable to take nearly two months to connect a flat to the outside world. I'm sorry, but it just isn't. At all. In the least. But you all seem to be of this belief. I blew an hour on comparison shopping - not so much for money as for "Which of you wankstains can get my damn phone connected first?" - only to find that each and every one of you have decided that 10th January is the absolute earliest that you can get a phone connected to a residence. So I basically had to pick one and hope.
It's too late to ring you up and bawl you out about it now. Besides, I have packing to do. However. Tomorrow, in between the running around to go pick up my keys and then come back to help load my shit into the back of a van and then go back to this flat to which you refuse to hook a phone line until the next fucking ice age, I will be giving you a quick bell to ask you, in slightly more polite terms than this, what the hell kind of bullshit are you actually playing at here?
I imagine that what's going to happen is that I am going to ring you up, give you my best 'stern pissed-off professional person' voice for awhile, and someone will tell me that your website is for suckers and that I can get this bumped up. I am not living for six weeks in a flat without a land line phone or internet. I can get by for a week or so with net cafes, but six weeks is fucking ridiculous.
Now, I have to go and forage for food. Then I have to go throw stuff into boxes. I will be fuming all the while, FYI.
Regards,
One really pissed-off Canadian ex-pat.
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME.
See, there's this flat. It is a nice little flat. People have lived in it. Therefore, it's had the phone connected. Therefore, it should be a relatively simple feat to connect it to the existing phone lines. It always has been previously. This has never been an issue.
Your websites, however, tell me a different story. All of them seem to be of the opinion that six weeks is perfectly reasonable a time for a residence to be without a land line or internet. In this day and age ... how about no? No, it is not reasonable to take nearly two months to connect a flat to the outside world. I'm sorry, but it just isn't. At all. In the least. But you all seem to be of this belief. I blew an hour on comparison shopping - not so much for money as for "Which of you wankstains can get my damn phone connected first?" - only to find that each and every one of you have decided that 10th January is the absolute earliest that you can get a phone connected to a residence. So I basically had to pick one and hope.
It's too late to ring you up and bawl you out about it now. Besides, I have packing to do. However. Tomorrow, in between the running around to go pick up my keys and then come back to help load my shit into the back of a van and then go back to this flat to which you refuse to hook a phone line until the next fucking ice age, I will be giving you a quick bell to ask you, in slightly more polite terms than this, what the hell kind of bullshit are you actually playing at here?
I imagine that what's going to happen is that I am going to ring you up, give you my best 'stern pissed-off professional person' voice for awhile, and someone will tell me that your website is for suckers and that I can get this bumped up. I am not living for six weeks in a flat without a land line phone or internet. I can get by for a week or so with net cafes, but six weeks is fucking ridiculous.
Now, I have to go and forage for food. Then I have to go throw stuff into boxes. I will be fuming all the while, FYI.
Regards,
One really pissed-off Canadian ex-pat.
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Date: 2010-11-26 09:03 pm (UTC)