comcast fatman
What's her problem, indeed
The Chicago Tribune's What's Your Problem? columnist got this stumper in November from a woman in Plainfield, Ill.: A Comcast lineman hanging wire on a pole outside her house was so fat that he broke the pole; Comcast said it was a Commonwealth Edison pole so they couldn't fix it; ComEd said it wasn't their pole, and if she didn't fix it in 30 days, they'd cut off her power; contractors said the ground was too cold to dig in a new pole; ComEd said it'd lay underground cable for $6k; homeowner's insurance wouldn't pay because the original pole was too old and thus had probably decayed. (Yeah, the Trib's man got it worked out for the woman, but jeez . . ..) Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune's What's Your Problem? columnist got this stumper in November from a woman in Plainfield, Ill.: A Comcast lineman hanging wire on a pole outside her house was so fat that he broke the pole; Comcast said it was a Commonwealth Edison pole so they couldn't fix it; ComEd said it wasn't their pole, and if she didn't fix it in 30 days, they'd cut off her power; contractors said the ground was too cold to dig in a new pole; ComEd said it'd lay underground cable for $6k; homeowner's insurance wouldn't pay because the original pole was too old and thus had probably decayed. (Yeah, the Trib's man got it worked out for the woman, but jeez . . ..) Chicago Tribune
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Can you spell b-u-r-e-a-u-c-r-a-c-y?
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 01/28/09 at 10:50 AM
ROTFL! I love it when stories make fun of my industry!
Posted by BikerPuppy on 01/28/09 at 11:43 AM
I don't think any of those people can spell bureaucracy, Expat.
Posted by KW in Dallas, TX on 01/28/09 at 01:01 PM
BikerPuppy - Are you in the business of dealing with poles? Let me give you my address...
Posted by Madd Maxx on 01/28/09 at 01:04 PM
Thank god for spell checkers or I wouldn't have been able to either, KW. 😉
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 01/28/09 at 01:31 PM
It's really sad when you have to get the media involved just to get a legitimate problem fixed. 😠
Posted by AGFH on 01/28/09 at 01:31 PM
Expat - then rest assured, should you ever come back to the US, you can get a job with Comcast or CommEd.
Posted by KW in Dallas, TX on 01/28/09 at 01:34 PM
Isn't it illegal to cut off power when the temperature is above or below a certain temperature?
Posted by KW in Dallas, TX on 01/28/09 at 05:42 PM
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