Our meeting with Glendale Water and Power was a unique experience. Half awake, Ostrich boot wearing, cowboy belt buckle, New York haircut wannabe actor types should not be allowed on the premises of any self respecting utility company. Aside from that, the meeting went fine. Our amateur actor friend reminded us that he "..came in on his day off..", we wouldn't have minded if he stayed home. People need perspective and our hero definitely delivered, it's good to know how many different ways an appointment can go sideways. The most astounding thing about him was the complete void of human emotion of our "Marketing Manager". Mr Manager let us know with great certainty that "..he had the job that everyone else had the sense to pass on.." , which inspired pure confidence on our part. I was verbally put in my place when I asked if he was involved with Member Services. From then on, I let a colleague handle the rest of the appointment. My associate, Josh, was glad when it was over, so glad he needed a beer afterwards.By the end of our meeting, we noticed a stirring of humanity in LA rodeo boy. He was gracious enough to agree that our energy monitoring solution was unique although it was a direct challenge to his prior ineffective and costly attempts at home energy management. Yes, we were calling him out and saying, "Look cowpuke, you're an idiot, you've spent money foolishly looking for something that doesn't work and you don't give a damn because you're chasing a Chippendales LA fantasy that involves ostrich boots and a bad haircut". Have a nice day.
The meeting with the City of Pasadena utility dept. fared no better although it was more challenging and downright bizarre. Engineers are typically well versed in technical issues, these guys were not. Their main concern was RF , (radio frequency),poisoning from in home energy monitoring devices. Never mind the fact that it would take 3,000 years of smart meter RF to equate to 10 minutes of cell phone usage.. that didn't matter. And never mind the daily bathing of RF all throughout the City of Pasadena, that didn't matter either. These misguided technocrats deserved an extra slathering of RF targeted at every granola crunching, lettuce smoking ear ring wearing freak in LA! After hearing of their genuine, heart felt concern for their customers, they went on to say that "...eventually we will have to control all of their, (utility customers), power consumption. How kind of them. An associate of mine commented that we could all just go back to candles and they looked as though they actually considered it. The engineering team continued babbling their perception of their customers. They mentioned that if they so much as touched a breaker panel in a home, a class action lawsuit against the utility company would begin and require a complete upgrade of every breaker panel. They went on to say that the City of Pasadena in 2010 has a 50% internet usage rate in the community. A blatant lie. Their main concern was in measuring water. that being the case, maybe a tsunami would help alleviate their water concerns once and for all.
The swirling vortex of insecurity, despair and downright ignorance should be marked with a road sign at the city limits of Glendale and Pasadena that says "Turn back now or sink into an inescapable nightmare of idiocy and despotism from which you will not return." these people deserve home energy mis-management. All appliances should be left in the 'on' position. All light, toaster, hairdryers, X-boxes, vacuum cleaners , left on -purposely. This will cause the system to overload, create a massive implosion and blackouts within the city coverage areas. This would then cause them to start over, with a clean slate! A return to sanity for the utility company and all of their customers! Our company however will never have anything to do with them. They are permanently etched in our history as a place to stay away from, a land of Nod, if you will, a vanishing point, just over the event horizon that no sane individual ever dare go...
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