Mean Mimi

So. I chewed out one of the servicemen who are working on restoring our power. He was giving me a load of BS. Entergy has a bad reputation for not maintaining their equipment and for ill-serving their customers. A company with a reputation like that coaches their employees from the top to the bottom how to shift responsibility. When I told the serviceman that our electrician said that the transformer was not big enough to power our house, he asked the name of the electrician and then smiled and shook his head when I told him the name. He's one of the best in town. I suspect that the Entergy folks don't like him because he calls them on their crap. When I proceeded to tell him what my microwave was doing, he said something was probably wrong with the microwave. I said, "Wait! It's my stove, my TV, the lights, and the heating system, too. Are they all faulty?" That was no.2 load of BS buck-passing, so I let him have it. When I was done, I said, "Whatever it takes, I want to be back in business. We are old, and we are cold."

He backtracked and said he didn't say anything about the electrician, so I shouldn't quote him. Nothing to quote, is there? But a smile and a shake of the head is a message, isn't it? Then he said that he really didn't say that my microwave was the problem. Whatever. I apologized to him later and said that I really wanted to chew out the CEO of the company. Still, he BSed me twice, and that pissed me off.

GP just popped in to tell me that the servicemen found another problem at the box, that something was overheated and melting. Why didn't they find that earlier? Our power is completely off now, and our neighbor, who cut our line, is without power while they work on it. That's a little sweet justice. He runs a business out of his house, which he's not supposed to do, so I suppose that smarts a little. Now you see what I'm really like. Chewing out the working people and Schadenfreude all the way.