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Hanging on the telephone

by birdsong @ Thursday, Nov. 09, 2006 - 12:59:17 am

It just gets better.
When the man in the overalls hadn't turned up by 10.30 (after being told it would be about 9am?) I rang BT (half an hour, on a mobile) and went through five departments until I got to Maddi in the LTU (Line Test Unit).
Yes, they have a record of a 'network fault' on that line, but no engineer visit has been arranged?
What? I arrange dit yesterday?
Gave the name of the bloke on the phone (Mohammed sthg?) and anyway got it urgently re-arranged for 'before 12.30..
He arrived at 1.30 having struggled to find us, and then in ten minutes diagnosed that the phone socket wasn't connected to the line in and so it was an 'installation' rather than a fault??
He went off to the 'cabinet' (one of those green boxes full of wires in the street) and would ring the number when it was fixed.
I left the office at 3 and he hadn't returned.

And that's just one line...

We coul dbe here for a while.
And this is one of world's largest providers of telecommunication servcies?
Hello??

Flo's going to be in the paper this week. She was chosen to represent the school at the Presentation of the Healthy Schools Award at the football stadium this morning.
Very proud of her - she's so modest about all her wonderful qualities.

The new Foxx album (yes - another one. the THIRD this year) is getting f*cked about distribution wise. SM seems to be making a right mess of all these releases.
HMV and FOPP both had deliveries of "Tiny Colour MOvies" eeks' new releases on Monday!!!!
That came out at Easter.
Computer says that's the new album.
What's this other one called then mate?
from trash are you sure.
Ent not no record of anything like that.

Does make me smile. apparently you can't get it on Amazon either.
This is despite revies on ceefax and in the Independent.

There's an interview in 'Dazed and Confused" style magazine tis month too.
Probably another 3 stars.
From what I have heard of it, it is spectacularly average. Strange lack of urgency about getting a copy...

Hanging on the telephone

by birdsong @ Thursday, Nov. 09, 2006 - 12:52:58 am

It just gets better.
When the man in the overalls hadn't turned up by 10.30 (after being told it would be about 9am?) I rang BT (half an hour, on a mobile) and went through five departments until I got to Maddi in the LTU (Line Test Unit).
Yes, they have a record of a 'network fault' on that line, but no engineer visit has been arranged?
What? I arrange dit yesterday?
Gave the name of the bloke on the phone (Mohammed sthg?) and anyway got it urgently re-arranged for 'before 12.30..
He arrived at 1.30 having struggled to find us, and then in ten minutes diagnosed that the phone socket wasn't connected to the line in and so it was an 'installation' rather than a fault??
He went off to the 'cabinet' (one of those green boxes full of wires in the street) and would ring the number when it was fixed.
I left the office at 3 and he hadn't returned.

And that's just one line...

We coul dbe here for a while.
And this is one of world's largest providers of telecommunication servcies?
Hello??

Flo's going to be in the paper this week. She was chosen to represent the school at the Presentation of the Healthy Schools Award at the football stadium this morning.
Very proud of her - she's so modest about all her wonderful qualities.

The new Foxx album (yes - another one. the THIRD this year) is getting f*cked about distribution wise. SM seems to be making a right mess of all these releases.
HMV and FOPP both had deliveries of "Tiny Colour MOvies" eeks' new releases on Monday!!!!
That came out at Easter.
Computer says that's the new album.
What's this other one called then mate?
from trash are you sure.
Ent not no record of anything like that.

Does make me smile. apparently you can't get it on Amazon either.
This is despite revies on ceefax and in the Independent.

There's an interview in 'Dazed and Confused" style magazine tis month too.
Probably another 3 stars.
From what I have heard of it, it is spectacularly average. Strange lack of urgency about getting a copy...