Energy meter reader trespass??

Richie-from-the-Boro

steffyoak wrote: »

Thanks so much for your constructive & thought provoking feedback. The World (& no doubt this forum) is indeed a better place for your contributions. Must dash - someone's at the door! Regards THE VADOMA

"""Must dash - someone's at the door!"""

Well at least that one made me smile, there's hope yet

steffyoak

undaunted wrote: »

:rotfl: It's a good job you have a sense of humor and enough to politely /discreetly tell them your thoughts, I'd have thought describing you as a vadoma as a derogatory, insulting & reportable post if you hadn't

Believe me...it is/was an extraordinarily close run thing!

steffyoak

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

"""Must dash - someone's at the door!"""

Well at least that one made me smile, there's hope yet

As a new poster to this forum I came on here to seek genuine , constructive feedback on a very sensitive (well on my part anyway) subject & I've been pleased to see that a fair number of the 30+ fellow posters have been sympathetic to my situation. Indeed, I'm sure you'll be relieved to know that the manager of the meter co involved even called to see me today to view the scenario & offer his apologies & right away he was accepting that they were 100% at fault...gates or no gates! I made it clear that I didn't want any further action to be taken against the person involved & it was left at that...on the basis that in future there would be no attempts to touch the gates & if access is needed they have my telephone numbers

Case closed I believe. We'll have to agree to disagree on this one but just one final point I'd like to make - if you don't agree with, or have no sympathy with someone's situation on here...can I suggest you make those feelings known without resorting to the need to lower the tone to a personal nature? Believe me...I can give as good as I get when the situation requires it but...not from strangers, on forums who don't know me or my situation at any level beyond a few online sentences. Thank you

undaunted

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

- only 1 out of 10 possible points there undaunted, sorry but not even a half decent attempt to cause conflict
- you should make another attempt, this time try to be a bit more creative and try to hide your real intentions

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Why do you think that suggesting someone gets their 'head out of the sand' and do something about their problem is a derogatory, insulting & reportable post ? - tell the group undaunted we are all waiting.

I have nothing to gain from doing so and indeed no need to do so. Your own supercilious tone towards others opinions seems likely to mean you will manage it alone.

I did not say that was what was insulting. I said that calling someone a vadoma was potentially so had steffyoak not felt it worth a humorous reply.

One interpretation of the term can be found here, seems pretty derogatory to me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doma_people

steffyoak

undaunted wrote: »

I have nothing to gain from doing so and indeed no need to do so. Your own supercilious tone towards others opinions seems likely to mean you will manage it alone.

I did not say that was what was insulting. I said that calling someone a vadoma was potentially so had steffyoak not felt it worth a humorous reply.

One interpretation of the term can be found here, seems pretty derogatory to me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doma_people

Oh great....so now I'm a three toed inbred!! No wonder the meter reader ran off so quickly when I confronted him!! :embarasse

Richie-from-the-Boro

undaunted wrote: »

I have nothing to gain from doing so and indeed no need to do so. Your own supercilious tone towards others opinions seems likely to mean you will manage it alone.

I did not say that was what was insulting. I said that calling someone a vadoma was potentially so had steffyoak not felt it worth a humorous reply.

One interpretation of the term can be found here, seems pretty derogatory to me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doma_people

- not my modern use understanding of the word, simply a management term for someone who refuses to accept the facts
- is part of my vocab and I have used it many times before on this board, no one up to this point has 'discovered' a~n~other interpretation
- I suspect then it suited your intent, whereas in my case I used it as others use it as a noun, meaning - The Ostrich Tribe

Management term : A Member of the The Ostrich Tribe - meaning someone who says that a problem does not exist, because they do not want to deal with it.

Richie-from-the-Boro

steffyoak wrote: »

As a new poster to this forum I came on here to seek genuine , constructive feedback on a very sensitive (well on my part anyway) subject & I've been pleased to see that a fair number of the 30+ fellow posters have been sympathetic to my situation. Indeed, I'm sure you'll be relieved to know that the manager of the meter co involved even called to see me today to view the scenario & offer his apologies & right away he was accepting that they were 100% at fault...gates or no gates! I made it clear that I didn't want any further action to be taken against the person involved & it was left at that...on the basis that in future there would be no attempts to touch the gates & if access is needed they have my telephone numbers

Case closed I believe. We'll have to agree to disagree on this one but just one final point I'd like to make - if you don't agree with, or have no sympathy with someone's situation on here...can I suggest you make those feelings known without resorting to the need to lower the tone to a personal nature? Believe me...I can give as good as I get when the situation requires it but...not from strangers, on forums who don't know me or my situation at any level beyond a few online sentences. Thank you

- #6 - you should assume he was about to burgle the house and immediately ring 999
- #6 - Ask your supplier if you can arrange a security phone call or whatever when the meter reader turns up
- #6 - you have clearly made your meter unaccessible to your provider - solve it steffyoak - fit a bell or comms sytem and answer it
- #22-steffyoak the solution to what's happening to you is in your own hands, you have a solution, only you can effect it - no one else but you can stop this happening to you
- #22-just answer the door or supply like the rest of us meter readings via the internet
- #22-speak to your supplier about your concerns - and compromise steffyoak - your protection is in your own hands
- #35-not one single person of the 7.026 billion people in the whole big round world can offer any solution without that solution being initiated by steffyoak

Steffyoak, congratulations you clearly realised it was in your own hands, you now have a solution, only you could effect - no one else but you could stop this happening to you. I take it you initiated a call to SP / and / or Meter Reader and have come to a [see #6 & arrange a security phone call] mutual [#22 speak to your supplier about your concerns] arrangement.

You see head out of the sand and make something happen, you did it, again congratulations !

Terrylw1

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

Management term : A Member of the The Ostrich Tribe - meaning someone who says that a problem does not exist, because they do not want to deal with it.

Yes, an ostrich which makes sense. I'm sure we all use that one.

Its strange how a management term is based on a birth defect. That would be describing the person in question as having one, not that their head is in the sand, but that they have less toes due to a defect.

That's bad. I'm surprised they tolerate that term.

Richie-from-the-Boro

Terrylw1 wrote: »

Yes, an ostrich which makes sense. I'm sure we all use that one.

Its strange how a management term is based on a birth defect. That would be describing the person in question as having one, not that their head is in the sand, but that they have less toes due to a defect.

That's bad. I'm surprised they tolerate that term.

- it's not based on genetic defect at all, that's your understanding of how undaunted interpreted my use of a noun
- my intended use was as 'someone who refuses to accept the facts' not someone with a birth defect
- its drawn from the familiar picture we all have in our heads from childhood of an ostrich with its head in the sand
- not from the 'word police' type of misunderstanding of both its noun qualities and its intended use

It seems to me to be the case that whilst the birth defect bit was clearly not my intention, it was misunderstood / misinterpreted by undaunted, in # 47 I clearly stated this to be the case.

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You too Terrylw1 are both (1) misunderstanding and (2) reinforcing the wrong interpretation by restating the misunderstanding that its based on a birth defect .. .. .. when I stated in #47 its based on nothing of the sort, my clear stated understanding and intend use was as head~in~the~sand.

99% of management would say 'head in the sand'
99% of management would never have heard of the toe bit
99% of the images in peoples heads is head not toes
99% of the pictures available show heads not toes
99% of the images on the net don't even show toes

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one last word from me, in defence of meter readers I suppose. Scottish Power are using self employed meter readers. they pay a franchise fee of something like £6oo fot the privelidge of joining this dubious business model, company is called Meter-U, I think they get only 42p a read, they pay all their petrol, insurances etc. Its no coincidence that Steffyoak has seen not one but ,two acting like idiots. I can only think that because they are self employed they are more driven to act like this. Keep an eye on the next meter reader from my company, ( we take over the contract ) who will be dropping by your place from September onwards Steffy, it could even be me,( if you r Yorks,Lincs area) I am guaranteed never to climb over any gates regardless of height