People just don’t pay attention

Wednesday I decided to work from home part of the day and spend the other part of the day working on the house.  The house really needed some work done on it.  So after working for about an hour that morning I take a small break to come back and see my remote connection that died.  So I was like “Oh Great”, and I go check out the dsl router and no more green lights and one flashing red one.

I thought it might be a temporary thing so I continue my day working on the house and playing a couple games.  I check back after a couple of hours and still a flashy red light.  So I finally decided to call AT&T and go through there level 1 no help tech support.  Doing all the things I have already done, and have known about for years.  I finally convince her that it wasn’t me or the equipment, but something with the line.  After 45 minutes she finally gets a tech set up for the day and I was gearing up to leave work early again and come home.  15 minutes go by and I decide I better check the phone line.  Yep dead too, so I call back to make sure I get a real tech out here and not just a dsl tech.

Next day [thursday] I leave work early to come home and meet the guy and shows up telling me they are running tests and will get back to me shortly.  8-10 minutes later he rings the door bell again and he proceeds to tell me that our neighbor’s plumber had cut the line and AT&T had recieved about 30 calls after mine.  He advised me it might be the next morning before anything might happen.  So Leslie and leave for a bit and when we get back the neighbor’s yard was all ripped up and the phone and internet was back up.  Yeah!!!

I guess more people need to pay attention when doing their job to minimize other casualties.