Well I should have known better than to get excited.
The engineers (different ones) duly turned up as did the man with the necessary hoist and after one look told me they could not do the job as insufficient tree work had been done. There are indeed many large branches still in the way so that was no surprise.
The tree man had done what was on his work sheet which he had shown me but although he was of the opinion that it was not enough he could not do any more because it had not been commissioned. Quite where the blame lies I do not know, all I know is it is back to square one waiting for the tree man. That took a couple of weeks last time then another two weeks for BT to realize the commissioned work had been done.
My next door neighbours who also needs the same trees dealt with have had the pleasure of a visit from the man who does the second internal appointment turn up only of course to discover that was all a waste of time.
BT and the word organisation do not exactly sit well together in the same sentence. Another guy further up the road had ordered from BT who before they did anything else sent him a router, they then without telling him cancelled the order with no explanation. When he rang them up to find out what was happening they told him they would take a new order but he first had to send the router back so they could send him a router! They could not see the stupidity of this, I guess two different departments have their own system which never talk to each other. The word communication does not not sit well in the same sentence as BT either.
The two engineers will have spent about 4hrs on the road today for nothing so that is 8 hours engineers time wasted altogether counting the first engineers abortive visit. The word efficiency does not come into the equation either......
Well the engineers did screw the CSP, a small brown box, on the wall before they left so I guess something has now been done in the six weeks since the order went in. Hey Ho, progress?