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SDG&E to install 2-way meter readers
In response to #45 if were given too many meters to read how you say the route that wasn't completed is sent out the following day for it to be read. They are read regardless unless dogs or something of that nature. Just because a route isnt finished one day doesn't mean that the remaining accounts are automatically estimated.— April 4, 2008 12:52 p.m.
SDG&E to install 2-way meter readers
P.S. The section says how "well be absorbed by other areas of the company, or by attrition. That statement is true, but only applies to the employees who are full time. What SDGE is doing, is they are not making any "call-in" meter readers full time anymore, yet they are hiring "call-ins" like crazy. A "call-in" is a meter reader who calls-in every morning to see weather they work or not. There must be around 20 call-ins in the northern section alone. Thats not including anything below Rancho Bernardo area and below Rancho Santa Fe. So all those "call-ins" are going to be fired as soon as this whole AMI thing has gone through.— April 3, 2008 6:01 p.m.
SDG&E to install 2-way meter readers
In regards to this meter reader section, I'm currently a Meter Reader for San Diego Gas & Electric. I was kinda offended at how this posting has portrayed a meter reader to be a bad person.... How we supposedly read meters too high every month and how we don't do our jobs because we don't read everybody's meter... How can somebody criticize us if there is no background allowing you to say such things. Most customers get angry when they have an estimated bill, but 100% of the time the reason they got the estimated bill is because of their own negligence. If you have a german sheppard,pitbull, chow chow, akita, or Rottweiler, we as meter readers don't go into properties because those dogs are known to attack and have high pain tolerances. If a gate is locked how are we suppose to read it? If you have trash, or anything in front of the meter how are we suppose to read it? Also people are getting excited at how there will be more privacy and no more meter readers entering properties, but there are multiple times that meter readers have prevented huge accidents from happening, even fatal ones. Just the other day I was reading a property and as I turned the corner to read the gas meter I got a huge gust of gas, of course I immediately told the customer of the situation. If it had not been for me that whole block could have gone up in smoke! There have also been multiple times when we have run into faulty electrical wiring done by an electrician who didn't know what he was doing. The faulty wiring caused all of the gas lines to become energized. So as soon as somebody touched the meter or any lines connecting to it, the person would have been electrocuted. Some people wire up their motor homes to an outlet, not knowing that they are electrifying more than their motor home. So before there are fingers being pointed at how, "we don't do our jobs" look at how difficult your making our jobs in the first place.— April 3, 2008 5:54 p.m.