this has been a real eye opener....
I used to think I knew some mingers till I read this.......blimey.

One thing that does stand out though, is when I was working at a certain well known (and since bought out) cable television company near Manchester Airport.
Because for whatever reason, they didnt employ their own installations staff but hired them from an employment agency, they were never that mithered about making sure the job was done properly.
You could expect a certain amount of calls every day from people who had expected their cable tv to be put in, but the installation people had never turned up.
So when this guy phoned up and said that his install hadnt gone ahead, I wasnt too surprised... then he said that the engineers had actually walked out and said
that they wouldnt do the job. Which was a surprise. so I phoned their manager to try and find out what had gone on - when I spoke to him, he told me that yes, they *had* walked out on this guy's
install... at his instruction.
It turns out this guys house was full of rats. not pet rats.... your actual rats. at least fifty of them on the ground floor alone, according to the installs manager. And the rat shit on the floor was ankle deep at least. So he'd told the installers to come off site as it was a health hazard.
I phoned the guy back up and politely as I could told him why he wasnt getting cable tv. His response? 'who the f*** are you lot to tell people how to live?'
Dirty, dirty fecker.
(tjn whizzing on the electric fence of life, Mon 26 Mar 2007, 19:13, Reply)