Snail-in-Peanut-Butter Speed and Power Utility

When that 1990s one album wonder music group called Snap coined a song that went something like ‘I’ve got the power’, they probably wouldn’t have imagined that being a theme down here.

My issue was around cutting off trees that were interfering with power lines on my street and the contractors leaving the cut branches strewn in my street without thoughtfully disposing of them. So you log your queries through the call centre.

Call centres are the trend nowadays mainly because service providers don’t want coming face to face with an enraged customer and the customer trying to remove their bodies from their heads without any surgically-approved tools. So the call centre reduces the interaction to talking with phantoms. First I had to listen to a Euro sounding lady telling me 56, 367 times how their call agents are currently busy and they will be with me shortly. This ‘shortly’ turned out to be about 15 minutes.

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BDP primaries leave a lot to be desired

The BDP as a party known to have ample resources has always held its primaries well in time, but this time around that was not the case. The first leg of the primaries was held last weekend, with the final leg being billed for the coming weekend. This time around, the BDP failed to shine in its primary elections. The elections were chaotic; most if not all polling stations didn't open at the specified time of 6am. Loyal BDP members braved the...

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