The real title of this entry should be "Of Mice and Utility Company Retards".
I recently ran afoul with my gas provider. That is to say I got behind on the bill and owed them a sum of money. In my world, money is a means to an end, not the end in and of itself. Not so with most, if not all of the corporate world.
I received a call from a gracious young lady from the aforementioned provider and I though all was well and good in my world. But, lo and behold the spastic moron didn't enter the payment agreement into the computer (what they pay her for is completely beyond the scope of this blog). As there is no record of said "agreement" my gas service was terminated with extreme prejudice with absolutely no notification.
Over the last few years, I've learned to be a reasonable and level headed chap (yeah, I can hear all you fuckers laughing), on learning of my predicament I promptly called the so-called "service provider" to ascertain the nature of my service interuption.
"We have no record of any payment agreement and you are in arrears on your account." That was the answer I received. Note to everyone: If you find yourself in a similar situation, a) take notes and record the call if you can, b) Dan runs Direct Energy.
I find it unconscionable that a company that does nothing but take credit (and payment) for someone else's work (Atco actually provides the gas, DE just does the Ass-fucking er... accounting, ah the wonders of deregulation) can cut off service with no warning over an outstanding balance of $126.94. Yes, that is what I owed them, and I had owed that for 41 days, not much over a month. In the "agreement" I spoke of, I had indicated that I would square the entire balance on the 15th, 5 days AFTER they cut my gas service.
This whole ordeal has once again cemented the fact that I despise corporations and wish I could move to the woods and send them letter bombs ala Ted Kaczynski (you might remember him as the Unabomber). It's a crying shame when someone that does so much good is put behind bars.
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So you never did say, did you get your gas back on?
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