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Seriously, I a really beginning to fell like a mushroom. PG$E (ProfitsGone$Eleswhere) just sent “Public Safety Power Shut off” again, because of course to actually do something like repair their infrastructure would cause them cut into their Billion dollar Profit margin, and the poor darlings might not be able to vote themselves another fat Bonus of “Job well done”.
But that isn’t the worst of it, I had signed up with their alert system to get the messages. However I just got this notice at 4:30 in Afternoon. The spouse business where she works got the message a long time ago.
Further they keep sending the exact same ‘message’ so when I try to go to the PSPS site I keep getting the exact same address of “Gyserville” which is 80 miles up the Road.
So they can’t keep up the maintenance of their infrastructure, they can’t even work a good website for showing where the affected areas are, and they flat out refuse to allow S.F. to buy the infrastructure in spit of them being Bankrupt, but they sure can vote themselves a big fat Bonus and Pay raise. Reminds of the old joke Sign we used to have on our submarine in the Officers Quarters (Disclaimer, I was Enlisted).
All I want is
Less work to Do,
More time to do it in,
and more Pay for not getting it done.
They sure have taken this to heart.
Finally the sig other found a decent Power out Map, so we aren’t going to be affected yet.
So ya, I am beginning to feel like a Mushroom; kept in the Dark with no power or information, and shit on every few days when they feel like they need to make a couple of million more. This is very reminiscent of the rolling Black/Brown outs where they would cut power to the residents who were then charged for the power they didn’t get (The bills were never lowered once) so they could give it their buddies in other Corporations.
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