Sifting Through the White Trash

Today I'm posting about a customer I had a week ago. The pictures above are from the customers lovely single wide. As you see from the top picture we have an idiot that installed their new metal roof on top of our aerial drop. And the bottom picture is of their back deck where my telephone box is located. If you look under all the wood there is a dark brown table, if you look close enough between the top of the table and the bottom shelf of that table is my grey box. I went there to find these things and no one home, so I left after taking these pictures stating in my remarks on the trouble ticket unsafe condition. I was called back to the residence by dispatch because customer called back in to say she was home now. When I get there I find this dirty little women in scrubs and her neighbor waiting on me with nasty looks on their faces. She had an attitude from the minute I stepped out of my van. Asking why I didn't fix the trouble when I first was there? Well after showing her everything that I found, she told me that "I could just reach over the wood on her back deck." "Do you not see the screws and nails sticking out of said wood? I am not getting a tetanus shot just to fix your phone." Then the neighbor chimes in with" you should never talk to a lady like that"...?! WHAT, it took everything I had not to come back with you show me a lady, but I didn't. I then explained if I walked across her roof and fell through, she would be liable. To which she, "replied no I won't!" So I made sure I walked VERY heavy with the heals of my boots across this wonderful roof on her wonderful trailer. Meanwhile her and her neighbor took all the wood off the back deck. Everything got fixed and I tried to be somewhat civil to this women by saying "your all fixed, I'm sorry for the inconvenience and you have a nice day." To which I got a dirty look and then a view of the back of her head. Whatever, she is a sad little women that probably cleans toilets at an old age home, hence the reason for the scrubs she was wearing. Ok now the reason for this post, she then called into my corporate office to get me in trouble for my attitude. Now as I said before her phone and internet had been fixed, so it wasn't like this was a reoccurring problem and she wanted to complain. No this was directly to get me in trouble and or maybe even fired. In this day and age where jobs alone are hard to find, but well paying jobs are that much harder to find, why would you want to do this to someone? So I'm a big believer in fate, and I truly believe what comes around, goes around. I hope some old person shits on your head, and have a nice day!
Sorry for the rant, just made me mad...but otherwise everyone enjoy your day!
Marc

Back In The Saddle Again

Over 200 cookie jars. She had over 200 cookie jars, the women is literally going to cookie jar herself out of a house. Very sweet elderly women, but makes me wonder where is the line between collecting and hoarding. I mean her house was very clean, but EVERYWHERE you looked was a cookie jar. Ok now that I got that off my chest, how has everyone been? I really haven't had any crackpots of customers lately, but then I've been in a slight funk and have not taken the time to get to know my customers like I usually do. But after a few days away from work for my 11th wedding anniversary and a ton of honey-to-do things, I'm back and ready to see what flavor of stupidity my wonderful job is willing to throw at me. And it didn't disappoint...Had me a nice trailer the other day with 3 dogs running freely around the unfenced yard. The yard was all mud, with a cooler sitting in the middle of the yard. Not sure if this is the gathering place for the locals. The three dogs all felt the need to bark at me from the minute I pulled up and all the way till I was done an hour and a half later. Random chickens would cross my path from time to time, and I think I saw some pigs out there too. The longer I live here, the more normal these kinds of places (meaning redneck zoo's) are becoming to me. There were cameras strategically placed all over the trailer with the wires for these cameras just hanging and drooping off the trailer. So if you sneak up and pull on these wires, Inspector Gadget http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Gadget loses his surveillance. They shipped me off to a more urban setting this fine Saturday. Now there was more traffic and a lot more people, but no difference is intelligence. I had a women who lived in a 1 bedroom apartment, nothing seemed strange until she opened the door. It was like being hit in the face with a big ball of ammonia. Then the crunching began as I walked across here carpeted floor. Where is the crunching coming from you might ask, from the 11 cat litter boxes sprawled all over the apartment. You would think that a place with 14 cats would be more, nah who am I kidding? There was more cat litter on the floor than in the boxes. Can't you die from inhaling these cat fumes for too long?! Just imagine the hair in this women's food, hell it was all over me and my black shirt looked like I had sexual relations with a Wookie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wookie. Is online dating that bad that a young women needs to sit home on a Saturday night with her 14 cats? Then a local tech from the area came by to see if I needed a hand, I appreciated his jester, but all he did was complain about everything he has to do at work. Do I seem like I'm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phil_Donahue_Show or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._phil? I don't think so, we all have to deal with day to day BS, my outlet is this blog, maybe he should just simmer down and enjoy the world around him. As I try to do, hope everyone has good time doing whatever you sickos do,
Marc