Phone saga continued

[lnr]

Thursday 8th September. rjk takes the morning working from home. NTL due 8am-12pm. 12:26, just as I'm about to ring NTL and enquire chap appears. He's apparently spent half an hour poking in the box down the road. After a while he decides the wiring in the house is buggered and it needs rewiring. He arranges for another chap to come in the afternoon. 15:40 second engineer arrives, spends a while deciding if wiring really is broken. Decision is taken to move socket from kitchen to front of living room, since this saves moving three full bookcases to get at the old wiring. All works. Bloody hell.

So since it's now next to a power point the DECT phone has come downstairs, the normal phone is in rjk's room with the other socket, and the handset which was in the living room is now in the computer room. All change.

Comments

half an hour

[ewx.livejournal.com]

an hour...

Re: half an hour

[lnr]

Wonder why it took him so long. Wonder if he'd have found the problem was in the house if he'd tried there first.

Re: half an hour

[ewx.livejournal.com]

He said that we weren't connected in the box. So he might have been going back there if he'd started at the house anyway.

Re: half an hour

[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

Settle on 45 mins?

Re: half an hour

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Well, we only have the engineer's report to go on anyway...

Re: half an hour

[mair_in_grenderich]

perhaps he was never there at all and just said it so you thought he'd truly arrived within the times he was supposed to be there.

Can't you turn into sherlock holmes and go and sniff around the box to determine when someone was last there by the state of decay of the cigarette ash or something?

Re: half an hour

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I watch CSI but I don't actually believe everything I see on it l-)

Re: half an hour

[mair_in_grenderich]

CSI?

Re: half an hour

[lnr]

Crime Scene Investigation - a series set in Las Vegas (with spinoffs in Miami and New York) following the CSI teams working on various crimes.

Re: half an hour

[ewx.livejournal.com]

American TV series about forensic investigators.

[satanicsocks.livejournal.com]

I was kinda impressed with our NTL guy on Tuesday. Having ascertained that we didn't have cabling he called his supervisor and lo, a couple of hours later, some Men With Spades turned up. I've grown used to such things taking weeks...