EPTOn January 23 2014 01:28 diehilde wrote:
I usually try to accomodate all these points when the cable guy comes. getting internet set up smoothly is pretty essential to me. I even clean up the day before. Not that its THAT messy before, but I see visitors as a nice little bonus motivation to clean up the entire flat. However, the customer is not always to blame if something goes wrong. Last time the cable guy showed up I almost couldnt get Internet because he couldnt physically get to the main cable room of the house. I even called my renter like a week before the appointment and he told me the cable box is in the first cellar room. Unfortunately that cable box apparantely was not the one the cable guy needed to get access too... I ended up getting Internet still, but the cable guy went out of his way to switch on the connection at some central box for the entire street.
I usually try to accomodate all these points when the cable guy comes. getting internet set up smoothly is pretty essential to me. I even clean up the day before. Not that its THAT messy before, but I see visitors as a nice little bonus motivation to clean up the entire flat. However, the customer is not always to blame if something goes wrong. Last time the cable guy showed up I almost couldnt get Internet because he couldnt physically get to the main cable room of the house. I even called my renter like a week before the appointment and he told me the cable box is in the first cellar room. Unfortunately that cable box apparantely was not the one the cable guy needed to get access too... I ended up getting Internet still, but the cable guy went out of his way to switch on the connection at some central box for the entire street.
Yeah it's definitely not always possible to anticipate what exactly we need to get in to. Sometimes there are splices/splitters behind the jacks themselves which could be in the upstairs suite of a building that you rent the downstairs of. We understand those of course because there's no way for you to really know.
On January 23 2014 03:42 peidongyang wrote:
I buy the cable guy pizza every time even if they take it away most of the time it helps keeps them calm and happy when they answer my retard questions
I buy the cable guy pizza every time even if they take it away most of the time it helps keeps them calm and happy when they answer my retard questions
Actually the first time someone gave me a pack of beer he also ordered me a pizza when he was ordering their dinner since I was there half the day. It was really cool and I feel like it was unnecessary but he kept on insisting I couldn't say no
On January 23 2014 03:47 Jindo wrote:
Thankfully these things don't apply to me except maybe #10, my PC area can be pretty dirty from all the wires and dust. Still hate AT&T though for billing me for work done outside the house.
Thankfully these things don't apply to me except maybe #10, my PC area can be pretty dirty from all the wires and dust. Still hate AT&T though for billing me for work done outside the house.
There's always an extent to it of course. I always expect some dust, but there have been places where it looks like their desk was sitting there for 40 years in the kitchen and food had fallen behind it and mega sized dust bunnies. Those are the noteworthy types. Other than that, I've also had a couple jobs where I could literally not see the floor and there was just a giant rug in their basement that crunched from stuff underneath it when walking on it. It's like "uhhhh.... dude? Am I breaking something here? The whole floor is a pawn shop..."
