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Toolbelt: check. Gauges: check. Keys: check. Pepper spray: ...aw, crap.
This one comes courtesy of one of my fellow snarky fucks techies.
One of our customers had called in because her technician hadn't arrived, apparently. During the call before that one, it was determined that her connection wasn't coming up through the usual 'unplug it, plug it back in' method, so she'd need a tech to come by to check the connections and the wiring. She accepted the possibility of charges (there aren't any if it's an outside issue, and 'outside' is any point between the service box on the side of the house and the rest of the world) with the understanding that someone over 18 had to be at the house. Once my coworker had looked up the status of the ticket, thinking that the tech might have just been running late or the ticket itself was still waiting for assignment, she checked on the status of it and was amazed at what she found.
The ticket had been put into a delayed status because, and there's way too many questions I'm afraid to ask about this, the member's 15-year-old daughter had answered the door in lingerie and started smelling the tech. I don't mean just 'oh, you smell nice' smelling the tech, I mean 'hey, a new dog in the neighborhood, let's see what his diet's like' sniffing. Take a moment to recover from the 'okay, wait, whatthefuck' reaction if you need to. The fact that she was apparenly the only one there (which puts the delay on the ticket to begin with) wasn't what caught her off-guard, it's what she did.
I don't know how the rest of the story went because my coworker's break had just finished, but what kind of house did that member live in? If that was the only person there, the only thing I can think of as far as the rest of the household goes seems to fall into the category of 'Rejected Character Designs for the Rocky Horror Picture Show'.
One of our customers had called in because her technician hadn't arrived, apparently. During the call before that one, it was determined that her connection wasn't coming up through the usual 'unplug it, plug it back in' method, so she'd need a tech to come by to check the connections and the wiring. She accepted the possibility of charges (there aren't any if it's an outside issue, and 'outside' is any point between the service box on the side of the house and the rest of the world) with the understanding that someone over 18 had to be at the house. Once my coworker had looked up the status of the ticket, thinking that the tech might have just been running late or the ticket itself was still waiting for assignment, she checked on the status of it and was amazed at what she found.
The ticket had been put into a delayed status because, and there's way too many questions I'm afraid to ask about this, the member's 15-year-old daughter had answered the door in lingerie and started smelling the tech. I don't mean just 'oh, you smell nice' smelling the tech, I mean 'hey, a new dog in the neighborhood, let's see what his diet's like' sniffing. Take a moment to recover from the 'okay, wait, whatthefuck' reaction if you need to. The fact that she was apparenly the only one there (which puts the delay on the ticket to begin with) wasn't what caught her off-guard, it's what she did.
I don't know how the rest of the story went because my coworker's break had just finished, but what kind of house did that member live in? If that was the only person there, the only thing I can think of as far as the rest of the household goes seems to fall into the category of 'Rejected Character Designs for the Rocky Horror Picture Show'.
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