In reply to a post by lockyatlrg:

Get a grip, it was ment as a joke :/

Ah but !

It was clearly a joke to people in our position, but if you were one of the poor sods literally forced to work outside in the temperatures we've been having, and with those tiny wires and connectors that mean bare fingers are needed, (which does make me wonder about possible future or even existing poor connections), would you have thought it funny if someone else had cracked it?

Many of them must be really "fed up" (please supply appropriate expletive), and a missing sense of humour about it isn't surprising.

One thing we can be sure of, it isn't the fault of any of the engineers, who have a lousy job at the moment.

Thanks Rob

yep working outside all day when -5 is not much fun , even less so when pulled in on a rest day.

not so long ago the big boss was telling us all overtime is going so get use to it, now we are pulled in aganist our will !

you really could not make it up

I just want to clarify that video I posted wasn't intended to laugh at the engineers. I did chuckle and think of this forum when i saw it, but It's just an example of what their currently dealing with.

If I saw an engineer working near me in this weather I'd offer him/her a flask of tea and a bacon sarnie

Lack of funds I guess.

Well I work outside everyday on high roofs etc, carrying metal all day, So yeah I know how they feel

Edited by lockyatlrg (Sun 19-Dec-10 16:57:15)

I'll organise a collection to buy you a second vacuum flask .

Croftie,
Wot Video??????????????
It just getting better with me now I'm being told that I'm not able to get Infinity as my Phone line is not BT!!!!!!!!!. Like some one else said if this is the case can I please have all my money back that I've paid to you over the last 16yrs, the best part was that I was looged into my BT account at the time lol

Just wanted to mention that my exchange continues to show the later date, would appear that these times are entirely intentional. March 31st 2011 -> July 1st 2011 in my case.

Anyone seen a change since the last push back of dates?

Saw a note of a figure of 87% of London having FTTC by Spring which really isn't happening and it made me wonder if anyone has seen things change back.?

Things must be bad on BT.

I had a letter from Openreach a few days ago, offering me a job re: high speed broadband.

I retired from them 9 months ago, & am happy in a nice warm house

In reply to a post by MadMan:

Things must be bad on BT.

I had a letter from Openreach a few days ago, offering me a job re: high speed broadband.

I retired from them 9 months ago, & am happy in a nice warm house

Keep wishing them well!

Your pension depends on it ....

The tactical planning is poor, and they haven't even heard of strategic planning. Which is a far cry from what some of the pre and immediately post-privatisation management were capable of.

Those people were good!

Oh! Re the nice warm house. I hope you have a Central Heating maintenance contract with British Gas. That service is excellent, and I speak from experience of several emergency call-outs. (None of which were due to earlier errors on their part). Though a recent one did involve several very expensive (to them) visits failing to correct the problem. Then they sent a top fixer!

Ten minutes after arrival he showed me the incontrovertible cause of the whole system going AWOL. Apparently it is very common, but he can't get them to include it in the diagnostic scripts.

Does that ring any bells ?