Hello, All.

Could this year get any better?

https://www.wdsu.com/article/tropical-depression-twenty-eight-forms-in-caribbean-moving-into-gulf-next-week/34470385#

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Hello, All.

Could this year get any better?

https://www.wdsu.com/article/tropical-depression-twenty-eight-forms-in-caribbean-moving-into-gulf-next-week/34470385#

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Yesterday I discovered that an over grown Manitoba Maple had uprooted at my barn. The upper branches leaned against the overhead phone line that feed my house - stretching the wire pretty far to the side.

I started to clip at those smaller branches with one of those cutters that is on an extended pole and a pulley mechanism with rope to operate. After about 1hr (with less thany 30 minutes to spare before sunset) I managed to free up the phone line.

But... a new thing developed. The phone line had been so stretched out that it now had a large amount of slack. Part of the line comes from another pole across the country road. A tall truck could certainly snag it.

I found out that there is no emergency/field number to call regarding overhead phone wires. After a few minutes of minimum options on the automated system to the phone company, I reached an agent located in the Philippines! (Why they can't give those jobs to domestic Canadians is strange to me. But I digress..) They booked a service call for 8am this morning, but no one showed up. Great system.

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Hello, August Abolins.
On 10/26/20 6:18 PM you wrote:

Yesterday I discovered that an over grown Manitoba Maple had
uprooted at my barn. The upper branches leaned against the
overhead phone line that feed my house - stretching the wire
pretty far to the side. I started to clip at those smaller
branches with one of those cutters that is on an extended pole and
a pulley mechanism with rope to operate. After about 1hr (with
less thany 30 minutes to spare before sunset) I managed to free up
the phone line. But... a new thing developed. The phone line had
been so stretched out that it now had a large amount of slack.
Part of the line comes from another pole across the country road.
A tall truck could certainly snag it. I found out that there is
no emergency/field number to call regarding overhead phone wires.
After a few minutes of minimum options on the automated system to
the phone company, I reached an agent located in the Philippines!
(Why they can't give those jobs to domestic Canadians is strange
to me. But I digress..) They booked a service call for 8am this
morning, but no one showed up. Great system.

That is pretty much any utility company. Especially of they contract out.

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On 26/10/2020 4:36 a.m., Charles Pierson : August Abolins wrote:

..I reached an agent located in the Philippines!
(Why they can't give those jobs to domestic Canadians is
strange to me. But I digress..) They booked a service
call for 8am this morning, but no one showed up. Great
system.

That is pretty much any utility company. Especially of
they contract out.

I can understand outsourcing to accommodate times outside normal
business hours outside one's domestic region. But even if I reached
an office in British Columbia at my local time in Ontario - 6:30p -
that would have been only 3:30p BC time - and the jobs would have
been domestic.

On the phone, they were more concerned about my covid-19 status (I
had to answer several questions) than the "emergency" that an
overhead wire was hanging low over a public road.



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Hello, August Abolins.
On 10/26/20 5:53 PM you wrote:

That is pretty much any utility company. Especially of they
contract out.

I can understand outsourcing to accommodate times outside normal
business hours outside one's domestic region. But even if I
reached an office in British Columbia at my local time in Ontario
- 6:30p - that would have been only 3:30p BC time - and the jobs
would have been domestic.

I don't know. Here at least, it seems the utilities contract out a lot of their work. I suppose it's cheaper to hire subcontractors than to carry more employees.

On the phone, they were more concerned about my covid-19 status (I
had to answer several questions) than the "emergency" that an
overhead wire was hanging low over a public road.

That sounds about right.

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Hello, August Abolins.
On 10/26/20 5:53 PM you wrote:

That is pretty much any utility company. Especially of they
contract out.

I can understand outsourcing to accommodate times outside normal business hours outside one's domestic region. But even if I
reached an office in British Columbia at my local time in Ontario
- 6:30p - that would have been only 3:30p BC time - and the jobs would have been domestic.

I don't know. Here at least, it seems the utilities contract out a lot of their work. I suppose it's cheaper to hire subcontractors than to carry more employees.

On the phone, they were more concerned about my covid-19 status (I had to answer several questions) than the "emergency" that an overhead wire was hanging low over a public road.

That sounds about right.

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I think this covid-19 is affecting people's brains and reducing the ability to think common sense.

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