Customer Refuses To Acknowledge Water Guy's Concerns, Gets House Flooded

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    Font - Posted by u/Controlled01 12 hours ago 2 How much water do you want... exactly? oc M TL:DR Customer choses to ignore simple procedure and receives 800 gallons of water in their living room. I deliver bulk water to people who don't have access to city water or their own private well. For nearly all customers its a simple process, either they call for deliveries, or they have agreed to automatic deliveries. When I show up, I hook the truck up to the fill pipe and start pumping and either lis
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    Font - This particular customer had their holding tank installed in a small utility room next to their living room and didn't install a vent to the outside, and refused to allow us to install an alarm because they didn't want us to put the 1/4 inch hole in the wall to run the alarm wire. Solution? They call when they need 2000 gallons of water and we show up and pump exactly 2000 gallons of water. This procedure worked without flaw for over a decade. Literally hundreds of deliveries with no issu
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    Font - Two weeks go by, and we receive a message on our answering machine from the new customer, no gallon amount is specified. This set off a warning bell though because it was a household of two, and its only been two weeks since we filled them last. Thats HIGHLY abnormal. We expected more like five weeks. So we call back just to double check. No answer so we leave a message asking for confirmation. Couple hours later we try again. By the next day we had left four messages asking to confirm th
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    Font - 15 minutes later I hop out to check the water meter, 1700 gallons. I'll watch for the next couple minutes and shut it down. Thats when I hear the front door burst open and the woman who bought the house and had called us in yesterday is SCREAMING to shut the water down. There is water everywhere! What the hell are we doing! This woman has been ignoring our calls and even ignored me at her door and now she is screaming at me.
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    Font - Apparently she had called when the tank was half full instead of down below the mark showing where the 2000 gallons is. And just disregarded all our messages and didn't feel like talking to me when I nocked. So now she has 700+ gallons of water in her living room. Boss was called out so she could scream at him. Husband came home from work so he too could scream at us... for reasons I guess. They made a lot of demands about how we were going to pay to fix it... nope. Boss laid down how we
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    Organism - Severe-Dish-8459 - 11 hr. ago New employee first day on the job hooked the fill hose up to the dryer vent & pumped all the water straight into my friends house instead of the water tank. Worst first (& last) day on the job ever. Vote Reply Share Report Save Follow Controlled01 OP - 11 hr. ago the employee i replaced hooked up to someone's fuel tank and filled it with water.
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    Font - Richard-N-Yuleverby - 5 hr. ago Former environmental consultant. Back in the 90's we got called up to investigate an "overfill" by the insurance company for a gas station out in the sticks. New delivery driver showed up, asked where the underground tanks were, got instructions to fill up the kerosene tank and went around back. A while later, he comes back in with an invoice for 900 gallons. The owner did the numbers, having measured the level beforehand, and told him there was only room f
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    Font - amyslurps · 8 hr. ago The Great Flood Friend of mine lived on a street with a slight incline. Owned the house on the highest part of the street. Decided to replace the tankless hot water heater with a regular one, gas fired like the one originally there. Was always looking for a way to save a buck,and quite often it backfired in her but nothing like this. Found someone in the parking lot of home Depot who said he would install it for $50. He went to the house, made a list of fittings and

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