Telstra are SCUM
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Christian, this is the Lounge. And I doubt you'd use that word around your kid sister. ;P
[Cheshire] I can't afford those plastic things to cover the electric sockets so I just draw bunny faces on the electric outlets to scare the kids away from them... [RLtim] Newsflash! Kids aren't afraid of bunnies. [Cheshire] Oh they will be... -Bash.org
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For those not in Australia, Telstra was our national telephone monopoly. It's open slather now, but Telstra still maintain the lines, etc. We don't have our phone on with them, nor can we. Years ago, I had a mobile on a $500 a month plan. I disconnected it, but they didn't do it, and so they sued me for $600 ( it took me over a month to find out and make ammends ). That's a long and old story. Cut to now. We had a LOT of rain recently, in fact I believe we had 1/4 of our annual rainfall in one summers day. After this, our phone line started to have a lot of crackle. We called our provider, who then has to call Telstra to get it fixed. Telstra called my wife and told her he'd checked the line and it was fine. He blamed the crackle he could hear when he called on us having a cordless phone. I'd already told them that I'd checked a normal phone and also that my modem was connecting at 4.8 and then dropping out. I called and abused them. A week later, on a Sunday, I looked out my window and saw a Telstra truck. A second later, it was gone. The guy had not spoken to us while on our property. I went out to look, and right in front of our garage was a hole in the ground, exposing the phone wires. I went in and tried the phone, it was dead. The next day ( a public holiday, as it happens ) the phone started working again. The hole had rows of used bricks over it, which did not cover it, but marked where it was. The bricks were mine. A few weeks later, I got sick of the hole and called again to complain. This time I complained at length - the guy came onto the property, did not talk to us, did not finish the job, etc. A week later, Telstra call me to clear it up, and a few days later, the guy comes and fills in the hole. Here's the kicker. They called me yesterday to make sure I was happy to have the hole filled, and mentioned in passing that I'll get a letter from them soon, as the technician ( the one I complained about ) claims the original problem was caused by us deliberately tampering with the phone lines, which is a finable offence, plus we have to then pay for his visits. This is a total lie, I've not done ANY digging in that vicinity at all. I've not got the letter yet, but I foresee a visit to the courts, and even then, I presume the law is written in such a way that my protests will count for nothing. How else can they prosecute people who DO cut up their phone lines ? It's obvious to me that the guy is making this up to punish me for the bollocking he would have got as a
Rent-A-Coder must be breathing a sigh of relief, now that you have (temporarily?) sighted your guns on someone else. :) Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO
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Rent-A-Coder must be breathing a sigh of relief, now that you have (temporarily?) sighted your guns on someone else. :) Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO
RAC are finally paying me about $160 for the $450 job I finished, and that on the proviso that I sent apologies to all concerned. How they failed to spot the sarcasm in the apologies is beyond me, but I'm waiting for my money, then I intend to post a job on RAC, as a buyer. The job will be writing an anti-RAC site, where people can post their bad RAC experiences, and the ways in which the arbitrators deviate from their promised mode of behaviour, always in favour of buyers. Christian I have several lifelong friends that are New Yorkers but I have always gravitated toward the weirdo's. - Richard Stringer
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RAC are finally paying me about $160 for the $450 job I finished, and that on the proviso that I sent apologies to all concerned. How they failed to spot the sarcasm in the apologies is beyond me, but I'm waiting for my money, then I intend to post a job on RAC, as a buyer. The job will be writing an anti-RAC site, where people can post their bad RAC experiences, and the ways in which the arbitrators deviate from their promised mode of behaviour, always in favour of buyers. Christian I have several lifelong friends that are New Yorkers but I have always gravitated toward the weirdo's. - Richard Stringer
Christian Graus wrote: then I intend to post a job on RAC, as a buyer. That should be highly amusing! Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO