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Originally Posted by iw8surf
My spouse is a reliability engineer for the power company, her biggest complaint during outages is that people expect immediate results. The sad reality is she will deploy crews to your area to fix down lines and they will call back saying its 45 mph winds I am not getting into that bucket truck till it dies down... So you will wait until its A first safe for them to do so, and then B however long it takes for them to fix the problem, on top of C it depends on how many people are affected. If you are in the group of 30 people affected versus 3,000 you should expect a longer wait time.
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Not to belittle your wife’s position at the power company but is a “reliability engineer” another name for dispatcher?
You know how job titles are so skewed nowadays (janitor is a “sanitary engineer”) and so on...just curious if you wife is actually a degreed engineer?