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Last week gas stopped coming out of my taps. Phoned British Gas and they said I'd been cut off so I paid 'em a load of money I hadn't got. Then they said it wasn't cut off at all. I investigated further and it turns out that someone from one of the other flats had an engineer round and he turned off my gas by accident because the metres are incorrectly labelled. BG sent a man round to turn my metre back on but said that they were unable to do it because the cunt had stuck some sticker on it saying it was unsafe, they advised me to ring the original engineer. Got his number off the girl in the other flat and phoned him and he told me to ring either Group 3 Energy or Countrywide Estate Agents - two companies I've never even heard of - he gave me a number for Group 3 which turned out to be wrong but I eventually managed to contact them through the internet - at which point they advised me to ring BG - on being told that I'd spoken to them and that they'd sent me to the engineer who had sent me to them they told me to ring the engineer again. His phone was on ansaphone all afternoon but finally I got hold of him and after some arguing he said that he would try and fit me in to look into turning it back on again. Apparently he's going to get back to me later. The wanker.
Anyone got an electric heater?
I've taken, when I get stuck in those sort of officialdom loops, to doing the whole 'can I speak to your manager' thing as soon as I ring up or, even better, the 'I'd like to make an official complaint' thing. It works and you get results rather than the Kafka loops. I spent a fucking whole day a while back to BT and eventually the only thing that worked was turning into someone horrid. You should try and get compensation as well for the inconvenience if you can be bothered. I never can, but I got friends who do that sort of shit all the time and get crazy money back from things. I just post advice that I never take myself on the internet.