Shawn is a maintenance man for a series of apartment buildings. He rotates with others to go on call for a week at a time. Last week Jerry was on call.
The idea of being on call is to go out on emergencies....busted pipes, broken heaters in cold weather, a resident standing in 4 inches of water in their bathroom, and so on.
Jerry was called at 2am by one such resident. The resident was complaining of his high electric bill and demanded that Jerry come out immediately to come look at his meter.
First of all, the electric meters are the responsibility of the electric company. Second of all, if you had called anyone else at 2am demanding that your meter be investigated, your electric bill is going to be the least of your worries.
This was Shawn's joke. I told Shawn that Jerry should wait a couple days, then call the dude back at 2 am, waking him up, to tell him, "I've checked your meter. It's fine."
This is going to be the opening to the screen play that I plan to start someday. Nothing makes a funnier movie than true blue collar work!
Trust me, you just can't make this stuff up.
The idea of being on call is to go out on emergencies....busted pipes, broken heaters in cold weather, a resident standing in 4 inches of water in their bathroom, and so on.
Jerry was called at 2am by one such resident. The resident was complaining of his high electric bill and demanded that Jerry come out immediately to come look at his meter.
First of all, the electric meters are the responsibility of the electric company. Second of all, if you had called anyone else at 2am demanding that your meter be investigated, your electric bill is going to be the least of your worries.
This was Shawn's joke. I told Shawn that Jerry should wait a couple days, then call the dude back at 2 am, waking him up, to tell him, "I've checked your meter. It's fine."
This is going to be the opening to the screen play that I plan to start someday. Nothing makes a funnier movie than true blue collar work!
Trust me, you just can't make this stuff up.
1 comment:
This is soooo true! One of my maintence guys lives 45 minutes away from the property. He was on call last week & got a call about an a/c being out. He told the man he was coming from (his city) and that it would take about an hour, but he would be there. The man said fine.
So when Kenny gets there, the wife answers the door, and says "Can you just come back tomorrow?" and refuses to let Kenny in. And even better...had the nerve to call at 10:00 the next morning saying no one had come out yet this morning. I took that call & told her we would fix it sometime today between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00p.m. :)
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