we just took up a new place for our studio. (yet another) barsati on the the 4th floor, but this one has ample space and sunlight and fresh air. and i’ve got a decent landlord. and it’s peaceful. and i didn’t have to go through the neighbourhood scum broker. all in all, a good deal.
the tough part came around when i had to shift the landline from the old place. it took the retards at airtel 12 days to shift a phone line a hundred metres. first, they misheard 20 “d for delhi” as 20 “b for bombay.” then, inexplicably, they decided to make an entry in their records that i asked for a further delay in shifting the line. somewhere along the line, some illiterate call-whore thought it’d be well within my rights to make as many calls as i wanted during the delay, and that airtel would foot the bill.
sure i’d asked him if i could do that, but what sort of lame-ass company hires morons who decide to be generous with their employer’s money?
and all this while, all the furniture was already shifted to the new place, and i was sitting in the old place with a comp on the floor. one’s ass tends to hurt like a bitch after a week or so of sitting cross-legged. and by the tenth day, i’d lost my patience. a day full of heavily abusive calls to supervisors, team leaders, technical executives and other fancy titles later, i finally got the phone shifted. and my language! i’m surprised that they didn’t just slam the phone down on me. but if they’d tried, there would have been blood all over the place.
the phone finally got shifted last friday.
and this morning, some idiot wakes me up to tell me he wants to come over and shift my phone. from 20 d to 20 b. because that’s what’s written in their records.
i don’t think he’ll be calling me again. seriously, if you don’t want me to say nasty things about you and your mother, don’t wake me up before 11am.
<aside>the title of this post is based on airtel’s slogan: express yourself. it worked for me. reliance’s slogan has always been misunderstood by me. my terrible hindi translated “kar lo duniya mutthi mein” as “do the world into the ground.” never understood why they’d take on such a negative sounding catch-phrase.</aside>
thanks for dropping by. how r things
i had a connection of airtel since three days bt dealer of patiala m/s sahni communication didn;t give a satisfactory answer to whether it is activated within 1 or 2 days i m very much desperate from the airtel service.,
please do the needful as early as possible otherwise i have to deactctivated the airtel of my all number which is i already used(i m using 3 no. of airtel conncetion)
shalini from patiala