Electricity update

Yesterday the admin assistant to the landlord bowled in. She was carrying an electric bill for the units used before the electricity metre fiasco.She presented it with great aplomb. I looked at husband boss "idiot?" he didn't get why I was giving him the look. The admin assistant left."How did she get that bill together?" I asked husband. He didn't know what I was talking about. No one had taken a metre reading. The landlord and or his assistant had plucked a figure from the air and decided that's how much electricity we must have used. We read the metre like a normal person would do. We had used half the units he had billed us for. The bill had been returned UNPAID!!

Why would we?

Friday in bowled the landlord. As bold as brass. "Hello Ni***" he said "did *** tell you we're putting a new electric metre in today?" "No" I replied. Any how the installation went ahead. As soon as the electric was turned off down came a scrote from the flats upstairs. "I don't got any electric" he said. OH NO I thought something's not right. The electrician wouldn't tell me anything. But at the end of his installation and with the persuasion of a cuppa he informed me "I think this metre is feeding upstairs." Alarm bells rang very loudly. Of course the landlord was unavailable for comment. It turned out he put a credit on the metre of £100. This morning we came in and the metre was empty. I phoned him URGENTLY! he popped in and said "well Ni*** I don't want to invoice you any more. So I had the metre put in. You put the credit on and invoice me for the electric you haven't used." How the hell is that going to work? There is no way in this world I'm feeding that metre for the scrotes upstairs and invoicing him because I know and he knows if he's honest with himself he 'aint going to pay. Frantic phone calls ensued. Husband boss "idiot?" nearly came to blows with the landlord. An electrician was called he came and tapped into the electric in our units these units are not billed by the landlord. The metre is still empty, it still feeds the flats upstairs. Because it's on business premises it wont stop the electricity until business hours are over. Oh dear I wouldn't want to live in the flats upstairs. Because they wont have any electric tonight.

Not the only "idiots?"

Today I have discovered that it's not just my boys that are "idiots?". This week we're having a feature in the local free paper. Great you may think what fabulous coverage. Well it's not been quite like that. Friday up popped the chappie to do the editorial. We had a chat and off he went with his information. I had told him whilst we were chatting we didn't want any bull s***. What did he come back with? a load of old bull ****! On Friday we arranged for some photographs to be taken today. I'm photo phobic so I told him "it's imperative that people are around to go in this photo.Because I'm not doing it on my own." Straight forward and to the point. This morning at 8.45 the time we had arranged to meet, the 'phone rang. "Hi it's **** I've forgotten my camera today can we do the photo's tomorrow?" "NO" was my response "today I have people tomorrow it's just me. I'm sorry but you'll have to sort something out. Oh and by the way I've written some editorial that's nearer the truth and I'll e-mail to you." That went down well as you can imagine. Later in the morning I had a phone call a photographer had been arranged and was on his way. And I was informed although my grammar was not quite correct the paper would be using the editorial material I had written. He e-mailed it back for me to check. He had added a few dots and dashes!!

Where am I?

Pay day is always an interesting event with my fellow co. workers "idiots?" you have to remind them days ahead about their time sheets. And then when you finally get them they can be an interesting read. This month they all duly filled in the sheets nearly as required. One fellow co. worker "idiot?" had filled the hours in lovely. The section where it said "site" they are supposed to fill in where they had worked on said day. This particular "idiot?" had filled in "I forget where I was!" I'm thinking he doesn't fill his time sheet in daily.