Schedules in Book Seven: Reconstruction 2020
- Oct. 16, 2020, 2:29 p.m.
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Well, this is bloody stupid.
One would think that a scheduled repair or service would put some kind of importance on the concept of SCHEDULE.
I had scheduled a heater clean for 8 a.m. and a water softener check at 10 a.m. with the intention of going into town this afternoon.
At 8:00, as my heater people were coming in… the Water Guy calls.
“Can I come over now?”
Well, I have other service people here so that isn’t going to work.
“OK. I’m going out of town so, do it another day?
No. I have it scheduled for 10 this morning.
“Yeah but I’m going out of town. I mean, I could swing by this afternoon, I guess.”
Fine.
But GR. What the hell? Where is the professionalism?? If you’ve agreed to perform a specific service at a specific time ESPECIALLY if the service is in someone else’s HOME… don’t get surly when a person expects you to keep the damned schedule!
Purple Dawn ⋅ October 16, 2020
Where I live the Electricians, Plumbers etc are never on time and are able to charge whatever they like, they make at least $100 per hour. I learn as much as I can about each thing that needs to be done in the fall and can do quite a bit of it myself now. I should have gotten a trade!
stargazing ⋅ October 16, 2020
Ive never found repair people to be on time. We had to have a very large tree removed just before labor day, and we had it scheduled for a Wed, so I took time off work. Then the night before he text me to say that he would be able to come, and I expressed my displeasure with that since I had taken a vacation day...because trying to work through chain sawing wasn't great. DIdn't hear back from him. Then the next morning, I'm sleeping on the couch b/c I didn't sleep well the night before, and guess who showed up when he was originally scheduled? But usually, folks are late. I've never had one call hours earlier and ask if he could come now.