Customer: You...do *have* some cheese, don't you?
Owner: (brightly) Of course, sir. It's a cheese shop, sir. We've got--
Customer: No no... don't tell me. I'm keen to guess.
Owner: Fair enough.
- 36 hours after the fateful Chorus attempt to provision VDSL, Chorus with an exchange visit identified the working adsl port we are and always were on, and nek minit we are up and running on ADSL
- Original VDSL request cancelled by "the system"
- very loyal customer .. resolves to go for a business VDSL plan - try again
- Business sales say sorry you can't as you have a residential plan .. "but the account says Business Broadband 2" .. no it can't .. oh well put me through (sigh, getting sick of this music after 2 days of it)
- Residential sales .. happy to help you .. thanks, and we need a static IP .. don't know what that is, sorry we don't do that sort of thing
- Residential sales on a redial .. sorry you have a business plan and you can't have a residential plan on that
Badly needed .. an Ombudsman or Commissioner for silliness ..
