The "joys" of progress (not)

I lose the will to live! (Not really, at my age that may be a dangerous thing to say.)

There was a time when 10 minutes on the phone with the Orange helpline and they would agree that we needed a technician to come out to our gite - we always need a technician with our less than reliable telephone line - one day we’ll pay for fibre.

It’s just taken 90 minutes on their chat line to come to the same conclusion!

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Well done for persevering! We are still waiting to get our electricity supply connected properly, phase and neutral are currently reversed. Emails sent each week with 0 response so now to send email twice a week then daily etc until we do.

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I was thinking of @billybutcher while waiting each time they went away to do something else. :slight_smile:

I wish there were a way of saying to “helpline” operators “Look, I have time and I’ve learned perseverance. Just do what I’m asking.”

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Yes - I understand why they have been trained to stick to the script as sometimes people phone up to complain having not tried the obvious stuff first - but when you have already spent hours “turning it off and on again” it’s frustrating when they won’t cut to the chase.

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