Octopus Energy customers can claim a free hot drink and sausage roll at Greggs every week.
Seems a bit harsh.
Seems a bit harsh.
I think you meant ‘arse’. Plus genitalia, gristle and any other bits swept up off the floor.Greggs sausage rolls are ace
I think you meant ‘arse’. Plus genitalia, gristle and any other bits swept up off the floor.
Hoovered up and not just swept upMechanically Recovered I believe is the phrase
I visited an abattoir as their bank manager many years ago….didn’t go back!!!Mechanically Recovered I believe is the phrase
Try visiting a Halal one.I visited an abattoir as their bank manager many years ago….didn’t go back!!!
Ugh, needs a smart meter. Never mind then.Octopus Energy customers can claim a free hot drink and sausage roll at Greggs every week.
Seems a bit harsh.
That's a shame as I won't have a smart meterUgh, needs a smart meter. Never mind then.
Lucky escape.Ugh, needs a smart meter. Never mind then.
I worked for OVO/SSE engineering supporting the field engineers. Smart meters have significant problems but Joe public doesn't get to hear about it because there is no reporting mechanism to document the figures.Lucky escape.
As an aside, the scare stories about smart meters are just that in my experience. Maybe the early ones…I have wuite a few fitted in various locations with zero issues.
Same old crap again, mushroom treatement.I worked for OVO/SSE engineering supporting the field engineers. Smart meters have significant problems but Joe public doesn't get to hear about it because there is no reporting mechanism to document the figures.
Energy suppliers are not required to report the percentage of failed installs. Read into that what you like.
And how many would that be..?I stand by what I said - all the smart meters in my world have been absolutely faultless
And how many would that be..?
I stand by what I said. I saw install failure rates of at least 1 in 10 and I'm just counting first time installs. Factor in meters that failed within the first 12 to 24 months after install and you can easily double that.
I've known engineers to make 2, 3 and even 4 visits to try to get a smart meter to work, before giving up and reverting the meter to "dumb" mode. Who do you think ultimately foots the bill for that..?
IHD failure rates are even worse and there's no incentive for the energy companies to repair or replace either the meter or the IHD because once they've installed them (regardless of whether it fails or not) it counts towards their quota of installs.
Energy companies are fined if they don't install their annual quota of smart meters so they pressure customers into adopting them with a range of morally dubious and in some cases legally questionable methods to "encourage" uptake.
I've seen the complaints sheets from customers who've given in to this bullshit and the amount of grief and disruption they've subsequently endured for next to no advantage is truly shocking.
I've seen instances of customers who've been left with no power for days and even weeks because of fucked up installs. Due in no small part to the the energy companies having scaled back their engineering teams with redundancies leaving the engineers who remain thinly spread and overworked.
Smart meters are one of the biggest cons of this century. The only people who stand to gain are the energy companies, who can dispense with the entire workforce in their meter reader depts.