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Oct 2017
3:03pm, 31 Oct 2017
15 posts
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TommyK
British Gas.
To paraphrase someone else’s advertising strap line: “British Gas – we will make a drama out of a crisis”.
It is now a month since I supplied them with final electricity and gas meter readings after the completion of the sale of my late Parents' house.
Despite repeated, stressful, frustrating, useless, time wasting, will-to-live sapping telephone calls to them, they have today, for the fourth time in as many weeks, issued me a payment reminder for the absurd, stick a finger in the air and guess the figure electricity bill that they saw fit to provide instead of an accurate charge. That bill is laughingly overestimated by approximately 5000 units, so, there’s a snowball’s chance in hell that I’ll be paying that.
I’m pretty sure that I’m not the first person to have sold a house and not continued the account elsewhere, so, I can’t even begin to understand why they can’t just bloody terminate the electricity account and issue a bill using the reading I’ve given them.. They somehow managed it OK with the f##cking gas bill!
So, ultimatum issued. I will no longer hold up the final accounting of the Estate whilst I wait on them getting their collective fingers out of their arses to provide accurate, final utility bills. I have instructed my solicitor to submit the final Estate Account, as is, for Court audit. I have further instructed my solicitor to disburse the remaining funds to the Will beneficiaries when the Account has been approved by the Court.
British Gas are now in a race against time. If they wake the f##k up, do their job and get both bills to me before the Estate is wound up, then I’ll pay them (probably). If they don’t get both bills to me on time, then they’re on to plums, there’ll be no money left in the estate for them and, as my late Father would have said, they can go and play with the buses. They’ll no longer be my problem.
I won’t be wasting any more time contacting them either, just to repeat myself all over again - I’d rather bang my head against a wall (that would likely be more productive anyway).
I’m getting to the end of a difficult and stressful time and they’re playing silly buggers. Bastards.
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Oct 2017
3:21pm, 31 Oct 2017
4,199 posts
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Wine Legs
Impressive rant!
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Oct 2017
3:32pm, 31 Oct 2017
5,636 posts
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Wobbling
‘Plums’ lifted this from mere rant to almost excellent prose.
If BG do continue to mess you about, contact the Guardian’s consumer affairs agony aunt. She’ll shake them into behaving.
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Oct 2017
4:07pm, 31 Oct 2017
16 posts
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TommyK
I wasn’t aware of “you’re on to plums” being a peculiarly West of Scotland phrase, but perhaps it is?
Every day’s a school day.
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Oct 2017
8:13pm, 31 Oct 2017
2,100 posts
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Surrey Phil
Hallowe'en - another load of American trash that this country has bought into.
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Oct 2017
8:21pm, 31 Oct 2017
8,082 posts
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lammo
Indeed, children its not fucking candy, they are sweets
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Oct 2017
8:39pm, 31 Oct 2017
12,616 posts
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Carpathius
+1 for Halloween as it currently stands in the majority of England. Also +1 for "candy"
*shudders*
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Oct 2017
8:54pm, 31 Oct 2017
9,652 posts
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Rosehip
Son's school boasting/tweeting about a year 9 having run Beachy marathon - despite Beachy having an 18 min age as is normal and yr 9 being too young to be running that far!
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Oct 2017
9:06pm, 31 Oct 2017
2,103 posts
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Surrey Phil
Too young even for the 10k as the minimum age under UKA rules is 15.
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Oct 2017
9:08pm, 31 Oct 2017
13,917 posts
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+Run+4+Fun+
WTAF!! Can't understand it. When young and fast do short stuff.
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