The day started with me having too much work. And before I left the office they kept giving me more. My first job was in a house that looks to have been divided into two units, though it could have been constructed that way. The guy was about the same age as me, he was working on light switches which he said was for work. He mistook the ground. I was there to fix his TV's. I could trace it back to a few bad connectors and a splitter. Once finished I hit the road.
Next I headed to an apartment building. There was a young woman here, I could see reading material about nursing around. She mentioned she was a student at a local university hospital. We talked briefly about it's move which I guess is mostly done at this point. The problem was easy to pick out. She had been accidentally disconnected. The worst part was that everything was mislabeled in the box in the alley way.
Next I headed up north to the poorer neighborhoods I work. In this particular house the door was answered by a confused hispanic teenager. he had no clue what was going on. He left in one direction to see what was going on, but obviously got no answer. He then went in another direction and finally got an explanation as to why I was there. Unfortunately the problem as he described it doesn't apply to our services, so I had to tell him to look elsewhere.
Next I headed closer to downtown to a nice big house. In fact all the houses on this particular street are big and lavish. this particular house they have been doing renovations on themselves and had just recently been able to move in. I was there because their router had quit working. Now I had taken a class on installing a home network about 3 months ago but this is the first time I had actually had to deal with such a job since, so I hope I did it right. The house was huge, thankfully I didn't get lost or I might still be there now.
Afterwards I got some gas for my van and went to the bathroom. then I called an afternoon job and skipped lunch to get an early lead ion my afternoon. This job was at an apartment complex that takes up a whole city block. Can't say I particularly care for this new trend. There was random piles of dog shit both around and within the complex, which makes me wonder about how much the people who live here respect this place. Or maybe they're just so spoiled they can't clean up after themselves or their pets. This particular apartment was littered with religious paraphernalia and various quotes from the New Testament. I knew right away they had been accidentally disconnected, which was much easier to fix than the earlier job.
I then headed north again to the poorer neighborhoods. The door was answered by a very nice hispanic man. I was here to correct a botched self-install. He was very curious as to what the problem was, because of his pride he felt he should have been able to hook the internet up himself. It turned out the problem was a filter on the line and the modem was bad. It took me longer than it should have. In the end he offered me a drink which was nice.
As I was leaving I got a call from dispatch saying they had called ahead and confirmed two of my jobs were not at home so they were going take them from me and give me two others. It didn't quite make sense but I just went with it. So I went to my next job which was a little east. The door was answered by a black guy who looked and sounded like Uncle Ruckus from Boondocks, but he wasn't as crazy. I was there for their phones, which weren't working. I was investigating things, when eventually he mentioned that he had accidentally vacuumed up the phone chord upstairs and he was wondering whether that could have been the problem. Of course it was. Then he started asking me about his computer, which was never hooked up. Actually it wasn't even plugged in. But it turned out the computer wasn't even able to get on the internet.
Next I headed to the resort town. The door was answered by a young guy. There was a woman there as well, but I guess they were just roommates. The guys room was covered in jam band tour posters. He also had a cork-board that was completely covered with ticket stubs. Everything was working fine while I was there of course. So I just had to go around and fix whatever I can and hope that was the problem.
Then I headed to my last job. this was a house I was at last week and the guy immediately recognized me. I know I replaced the box last time, so I replaced everything else I could find. As I was doing this dispatch called me to say they wanted me to go back to one of my jobs that was not at home. I told them they took that job from me so it is no longer my problem. It was their bad idea to call these jobs not at home, i had no desire to go back. Besides it was past my quitting time, so I finished and went home.