http://www.switched.com/2009/04/18/verizon-guy-drills-hole-into-wedding-dress-during-fios-installat/ Switched Comments for Verizon Guy Drills Hole Into Wedding Dress During FiOS Installation http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2009/04/18/verizon-guy-drills-hole-into-wedding-dress-during-fios-installat/http://www.switched.com/2009/04/18/verizon-guy-drills-hole-into-wedding-dress-during-fios-installat/Apr 19th 2009 12:51AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/04/18/verizon-guy-drills-hole-into-wedding-dress-during-fios-installat/http://www.switched.com/2009/04/18/verizon-guy-drills-hole-into-wedding-dress-during-fios-installat/
Oh yeah, it also took about 10 hours, and due to a misappropriation in their asset tracking system, my box never got registered to my subscription properly, requiring a 60 minute call to fix each time. (Happened 4 times before I cancelled.) Did I mention that because I didn't have a landline, 15 minutes of that time was taken up locating my customer account?

Superior technical offering, with terrible, terrible, terrible customer service.

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If they are planning to get married, nows a good excuse to delay it for poor Sams sake....If They are already married, The parties over anyway, Who cares...


in fact, now that I think about, The parties over regardless...]]>Apr 19th 2009 8:20AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/04/18/verizon-guy-drills-hole-into-wedding-dress-during-fios-installat/http://www.switched.com/2009/04/18/verizon-guy-drills-hole-into-wedding-dress-during-fios-installat/
I've seen people hit main power feeds, drill into furniture, bust out bricks, and catch drapes (which I imagine would look really cool when it happens).

Everyone has stories about stuff getting hit, but the best one I've heard was from a guy in Pittsburgh. It seems the customer wanted a line run in along the unfinished basement and up through the floor to the TV in the living room. For whatever reason, the installer decided to drill up from the basement instead of down from the LR. He drilled the hole and left the drill in the hole to see it upstairs. He went up and couldn't find the drill bit, which should have been very visible, as they are about a foot and a half long. He went back down stairs and checked. Sure enough, it was still in the hole. As he checked his measurements again, he realized there was a partition wall in the basement that he thought was an outside wall. Turns out he drilled up through the customer's grand piano and the drill bit was inside one of the legs.

Then there's the guy who drilled through the customer's cat (sleeping behind a dresser), but that's not nearly as funny. Got blood all over his drill and made a real mess of the bedroom carpet. ]]>Apr 19th 2009 11:41AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/04/18/verizon-guy-drills-hole-into-wedding-dress-during-fios-installat/http://www.switched.com/2009/04/18/verizon-guy-drills-hole-into-wedding-dress-during-fios-installat/
I wouldn't be too hard on the Verizon installer. I've had horrible install experience from AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner, DirecTV, Dish Network, etc. Anymore, I just do it myself whether they like it or not. Took a couple of beers and a bootleg copy of the Paris Hilton video to get him to just stand back and let me do the install the last time something had to be put in.]]>Apr 19th 2009 6:45PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/04/18/verizon-guy-drills-hole-into-wedding-dress-during-fios-installat/http://www.switched.com/2009/04/18/verizon-guy-drills-hole-into-wedding-dress-during-fios-installat/Apr 19th 2009 8:55PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/04/18/verizon-guy-drills-hole-into-wedding-dress-during-fios-installat/http://www.switched.com/2009/04/18/verizon-guy-drills-hole-into-wedding-dress-during-fios-installat/Apr 20th 2009 12:09AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/04/18/verizon-guy-drills-hole-into-wedding-dress-during-fios-installat/http://www.switched.com/2009/04/18/verizon-guy-drills-hole-into-wedding-dress-during-fios-installat/Apr 20th 2009 12:11AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/04/18/verizon-guy-drills-hole-into-wedding-dress-during-fios-installat/http://www.switched.com/2009/04/18/verizon-guy-drills-hole-into-wedding-dress-during-fios-installat/
My favorite drilling story was in Midtown Manhattan. One of our geniuses drilled a 1/8" hole in a 4" gas main which was located behind a metal telephone building box. Best part was when he realized it, he never said a word, he just went home. Cost the phone company over $10,000 for that hole...


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