Snail-in-Peanut-Butter Speed and Power Utility
Tuesday, December 12, 2023 | 20 Views |
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.
A young man suspected of breaking into a car was seized by residents, severely assaulted, and died in the hospital within an hour. We unreservedly condemn this mob justice. It is not a solution to crime, but a criminal offence that turns citizens into murderers.Residents are understandably angry about theft. The person who raised the alarm at 4am acted lawfully, and the neighbours who rushed to help showed community spirit. But what followed was...