For the SECOND time in less than a year, Comcast workers, installing cable a couple doors down, cut my FIOS cable. WTF....suppose they do this on purpose?
First time the service vehicle was pulling away as I realized what happened and couldn't confront them. This time, as soon as I saw them trenching behind my house, I turned on the TV to wait for the cable to **** the bed....sure enough, not more than 20 minutes after groundbreaking. I ran out immediately, but it turns out my 2 years of high school Spanish from 78/79 was a little rusty. I did manage to get my point across eventually....the 'leader' spent a good ten minutes on the phone and came to tell me that FIOS was notified and would be out in three hours...but that they were only following the spray painted lines that Verizon had made...so, it wasn't their fault. Of course 3 hours would be long after they were gone....so the guy may have just said that to shut me up....it worked...and nobody came out that evening. Granted, it may not have been their fault....but this **** is nuts....wouldn't surprise me in the least if it was intentional....but they're CABLE GUYS for **** sake...can't they fix my cable after they **** it up? I, too, called Verizon while they were still there....but by the time I got an actual person (luckily, my Tagalog is a little better than my Spanish), 30 minutes later, they were gone.
I don't understand...these are 20+ year old townhouses...all built with buried cable...why the **** they have to retrench every time someone new moves in is beyond me....the common areas are perpetually spraypainted up in every color of the rainbow....somehow, it seems that in 2017 this shouldn't be so fn hard