The water heater in my new flat is broken so I can't shower as thoroughly as I'd like, and the technician who's supposed to install broadband keeps reporting that I'm not home without checking, so I'm forced to tether from my phone. If he does it again today, I may just visit "One", the provider's offices with an IED.

so what you're saying is you're too soft to take a cold shower?

@tosensei I can take a cold shower, it's just uncomfortable and thus short. But I don't fancy myself a particularly tough person and I'm not especially athletic either. I get comfortable when I can and pull through when I have to, with a lot of swearing. And I mentioned an IED because I would definitely lose a fist fight to the average network technician.

@lorentz What about a shouting match over the phone? I've found calling the company up and just saying the guy hasn't shown up multiple times tends to get them to tell the guy to make sure to ring the bell. But I assume you can't ask them to call you when they are there?

@BordedDev I tried calling the company, they keep redirecting me across prefixes for hours on end, and I don't want to shout at a clueless support rep. I have however been provided with so many different internal and public IDs associated with my account and order that I may just look for a SQL injection and give myself a 100% discount.

@BordedDev He actually came today, fucked around with the distribution switch, and installed fiberoptic cable, I'm now waiting again, this time for the parent company's guy to install the actual modem.

@BordedDev I've been advised to request a refund for the part of my bill before the installation process was finished, which is roughly 12eur, but I probably will do that at some point just to fuck with them.

@lorentz it's all a matter of how you see it.

I love cold water. It's refreshing, sobering and it makes your mental health way better. All my problems goes away

@lorentz but yeah hopefully he'll fix the broadband soon so you can take hot showers. I didn't know they made connected water heater though. Couldn't you just connect it to the 3g or something?

@antigermanist those are unrelated problems, the fact that I can't take a nice hot shower just decreases my tolerance for bullshit.

@lorentz ik just pullin your leg.

The UK was all right when it comes to comfort and plummery though. Compared to that ireland was like time travelling to the middle age

I left my phone company months ago and they've sent several salesmen after me to come back

they actually gave me 12$ when I left

so I'd guess if you just tell them you're leaving they'll actually move their ass

I paid 50$ for a phone plan this guy calls and he's like we can have a phone plan and TV and extra stuff I don't even care about for 25$. I actually got mad at him. you could've done that the whole time and you didn't? why is that a sales pitch about how great your company is? lol. he did finally stop trying to salesman after that. he was quite persistent and kept ignoring my byes to him until that point. guess you can't recover from that one

@antigermanist Plumbers are alright in hungary, they do their job, they just cost a fortune. The problem with the telco is that every provider has recently been packed into a monopoly by the state and they immediately stopped giving a fuck.

@lorentz Glad you got at least one part sorted. Shame about the monopoly