I Love A Short Week
Morning weigh-in: 184.5#, 11% BF
This week went pretty fast, work especially was a blur...
Rode last night with my friend/neighbor Mike B; we did the towpath down to Bethlehem, where we attended the VMB meeting at CAT headquarters. Fruitful meeting, mostly brainstorming on the coming year's agenda. After that was the ride home, then pretty much straight to bed.
Tonight I'm working late, then running before going to Which Brew for roast pork & sauerkraut, with cask-conditioned Old Heathen.
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Oh, yum! Pork and sauerkraut....with mashed potatoes, I hope. I'm one of those who likes heaping the sauerkraut atop the mashed potatoes.
Well, we've finally had it with RCN and got ourselves DirecTV. We noticed channels were disappearing with RCN, snowy reception on the higher channels and the same movie showing on three different channels at the same time, lessening even more what RCN had to offer. AND, with all the decreased selections and poor reception, they had the unmitigated gall to raise their montly fee to about $57! We now have many selections, lots of free movies, a biography channel which I love, music channels (each one offering music from a different era); and we still get all the channels RCN offered. Yes, we're paying a little more; but, dollar for dollar, it still comes out a better deal than RCN.
We're now being inundated with calls from RCN, offering a $10/mon. decrease in our rate if we come back. WTF! A little late, isn't it? And, if they feel their service is worth only $47/mon., why the rate hike? I wouldn't want them back, even with a $10/mon. decrease. BUT I wonder, if someone IS content with RCN and wants to pay $10/mon. less, would it be worth one's while to threaten RCN with leaving? Just some food for thought. Better we should beat the system than have the system beat us.
Yeah, those guys are really sleazing out: degrading product quality and poor service, higher prices, and firing a lot of their (actually very good) service people in favor of "independent contractor" gypsies, like the loser that did this job at my place.
A friend used to be one of their installers, until about a month ago when he got laid off, but he saw the writing on the wall a long time before.
I remember when you went through that fiasco! Well, it appears all their blunders are now catching up with them. More and more people in our development are switching. Everyone's fed up. Every time they call here to "invite us back," I rip them a new you know what. They don't give a damn about their customers until they lose them. We've been warned by neighbors that we may lose service
with satellite during bad rain storms or snow storms, but there were times we lost service with RCN, too; so it's no big deal. So far, Joe's very impressed with their customer service people......who, btw, are there 24/7, including Christmas.
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