…then my DSL connection is working. On Monday I signed up, on Friday it’s working. Only 4 days!!! Deutsche Telekom you can k*** m* a**. When my mum signed up for a DSL connection back in Germany about 1 year ago, it took 2 months (!!) to process the application and to get it running, even though all the infrastructure was already available.
The reason was our beloved quasi-monopolist Deutsche Telekom who causes lots of delays, fees and trouble to competitors who want to use their phone lines. What they call service is pretty much a disaster. It’s similar to Telstra in Australia, but something must be fundamentally different in Germany if it’s possible to set up a DSL account in 4 days. As a student I once had 6 months of legal trouble with their lawyers, until I was so pissed off by their ignorance that I provoked a court hearing because I knew I was right and it seemed to me as the only solution left to end this trouble. A few days later they sent me a letter stating that everything I was claiming would be right, a sudden u-turn in opinion. On that day I decided to stay away from this company for the rest of my life.
So now with my internet connection I can finally catch up with a lot of work that needs to be done, from managing insurances (or ‘unsurances’ when it goes to Allianz, see postings from earlier this year) to updating heaps of websites.
Yesterday I got all my furniture. My new bed is huge… I didn’t expect it to be so big. It takes up a lot of space here but I love it anyway, it’s the biggest bed I ever had. So you could say I’m fully equipped now, except the missing kitchen equipment.
There are a lot of clouds at the horizon and at the same time a lot of very promising new oportunities when it goes to my job situation. More details soon. Change we need, like Barack Obama says.
