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cat63 at 04:44pm on 21/04/2011 under department of redundancy department, joined-up thinking, whirled gone mad
cat63 at 04:44pm on 21/04/2011 under department of redundancy department, joined-up thinking, whirled gone madToday we had a leaflet through the door from Eon, saying they'd have to turn of our electrickery on Thursday 10th May in order to work on some trees around the power lines. Fair enough. Bit of a nuisance, but this stuff has to be done sometimes.
Then a couple of hours later we get a second leaflet through the door, also from Eon, saying that they have to turn our electrickery off on Tuesday 5th May to cut down some trees around power lines "which feed your property".
The wording on each leaflet was slightly different and there was a different contact name and number on each one, but it seemed extremely likely that someone had arranged two different dates for the same work to be done....
So I rang the number on the second card and spoke to a nice lady who seemed as puzzled by the whole thing as I was. She later called me back and told me that the electrickery would be going off on the 5th and not the 10th and that if I hadn't called her about it she wouldn't have known they'd given us two different dates. Nice to know the power companies are spending our money wisely, isn't it?
And just to add that touch of surreality to the whole proceedings, as far as we can tell there aren't any aboveground power lines anywhere near our house anyway....
Then a couple of hours later we get a second leaflet through the door, also from Eon, saying that they have to turn our electrickery off on Tuesday 5th May to cut down some trees around power lines "which feed your property".
The wording on each leaflet was slightly different and there was a different contact name and number on each one, but it seemed extremely likely that someone had arranged two different dates for the same work to be done....
So I rang the number on the second card and spoke to a nice lady who seemed as puzzled by the whole thing as I was. She later called me back and told me that the electrickery would be going off on the 5th and not the 10th and that if I hadn't called her about it she wouldn't have known they'd given us two different dates. Nice to know the power companies are spending our money wisely, isn't it?
And just to add that touch of surreality to the whole proceedings, as far as we can tell there aren't any aboveground power lines anywhere near our house anyway....
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