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The Incompetency of Meralco

September 25, 2007

This is actually a delayed post because the events that I’m going to tell happened a week ago. So why am I telling it NOW?

Perhaps just to let it all out in this blog. Perhaps to let everyone know in what ways Meralco can be so incompetent.

Three weeks ago, my dad called Meralco to report the “leaning” electrical post near our house. I’m not so good at gauging distances and angles (I’m no mathematician or engineer) but, if I may say so, I guess the post was leaning at an angle of 20-30 degrees and that’s a lot, folks (I know I should just have taken a photo and describing it would have been easier but I was being my forgetful self). And its weight is almost precariously supported by the frightening bundles of electrical cables attached to it. I know that it wasn’t like that before, since we’re one of the first occupants of the subdivision. But with the increase in the residents, Meralco must have just connected the wires and all with no plans whatsoever. Maintenance wasn’t even that good. So when my dad placed that call to Meralco to report it and nobody from the company showed up in a few days, it didn’t really surprise us at all. But we’re very, very disappointed.

And just imagine our dismay when finally, the folks from the company came, looked at it, and then said they’re going to just come back to repair it (they already received a report of something to repair. So, they just go check out if the caller wasn’t lying?). Knowing Meralco, that would definitely take more than a couple of days again. Why are they purposely delaying the repair? My dad said maybe because these are just subcontractors and wanted to earn more by extending the number of days spent for repairing a single electrical post. So, again, we waited, hoping that the post will hold on until the repairmen come back.

But that hope failed last Wednesday night.

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Written by Prudence · Filed Under Personal 

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