This is kinda a self sighting
Today we have had the local authority replacing the communal lighting in the flats hallway which is nice. Now we have 3 desktops wired together in a small home network mine is a oddball because it doesn't have a hard switch off it just powers down so I like to be careful when the power is likely to go off and unplug it even though there is a surge protector there.
I wake up today and there is complete quiet and I realise as I go to look at the time that the power has been switched off and I think 'oh, everything should be ok' until the time comes to switch my computer on after the power comes back on. It's not happy the power lights flicker and nothing is happening. Hubby is going to check it when he gets home tonight but until then I'm stuck on my laptop which doesn't have a great graphics card (ie onboard graphics suck) I ring the authority because I have something else I need fixing anyway and mention this to the girl on the phone (she was good) who tried to get the manager of the crew but he wasn't answering. I raved a bit and she is sending me a complaint form.
Now my complaint is this. Is it too much to ask for a bit of warning before turning off the electrics to the flats, I could have been doing anything. I could have been cooking on a electric hob, inputting vital data, or something of a important nature. Now it would have taken five minutes tops for one of them to push the buzzers and say we are turning your power off in five minutes please turn off anything and we should be x amounts of minutes.
Is that too much to ask for?
Today we have had the local authority replacing the communal lighting in the flats hallway which is nice. Now we have 3 desktops wired together in a small home network mine is a oddball because it doesn't have a hard switch off it just powers down so I like to be careful when the power is likely to go off and unplug it even though there is a surge protector there.
I wake up today and there is complete quiet and I realise as I go to look at the time that the power has been switched off and I think 'oh, everything should be ok' until the time comes to switch my computer on after the power comes back on. It's not happy the power lights flicker and nothing is happening. Hubby is going to check it when he gets home tonight but until then I'm stuck on my laptop which doesn't have a great graphics card (ie onboard graphics suck) I ring the authority because I have something else I need fixing anyway and mention this to the girl on the phone (she was good) who tried to get the manager of the crew but he wasn't answering. I raved a bit and she is sending me a complaint form.
Now my complaint is this. Is it too much to ask for a bit of warning before turning off the electrics to the flats, I could have been doing anything. I could have been cooking on a electric hob, inputting vital data, or something of a important nature. Now it would have taken five minutes tops for one of them to push the buzzers and say we are turning your power off in five minutes please turn off anything and we should be x amounts of minutes.
Is that too much to ask for?
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