conedcalls2.jpgOur parents always taught us that it was bad manners to phone anyone’s home after ten o’clock in the evening. Evidently, Con Ed didn’t get the memo. As part of its effort to encourage energy conservation in the wake of yesterday’s power grid failure in Brooklyn, the utility barraged residents of Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Bed Stuy and Clinton with automated phone messages. We got five, but the volume wasn’t the problem. It was the timing. The first call came in to our cell phone at 3:14 in the afternoon. Then at 10:36 at night our home line rang. That was followed by three more calls to our cellphone, two at 11:12 and one at 11:22. Where’s Emily Post when we need her! Anyone else get a late-night call?
Turn Down the Juice Brooklyn [NY Post]


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  1. ConEd may be all of those bad things, but they are a monopoly. No one else provides electricity and we can not live without it. We really do not want a power outage. Think of the elderly folks on the 20th floor of their public housing or any other housing without elevator. Think of all of us without any lights or air conditioning. Do not conserve for ConEd, do it for the people.

  2. NO, 3:36. The criminals who run CON ED are the pigs, operating with rank impunity and without accountability. This utility is responsible for ELECTROCUTING people and dogs who were merely walking the streets, seriously injuring several people with their recent steam explosion (which by the way they can’t explain) and stonewalling, ducking, dodging, bobbing and weaving whenever concerned citizens and legislators request some damn ANSWERS. THEY SUCK AT THEIR JOB, plain and simple. ANYONE ELSE WHO PERFORMED IN THAT MANNER WOULD BE FIRED. 3:26 is right on the money. I suspect 3:36 is actually that longtime Con Ed apologist, Mayor Mike “Anyways” Bloomberg.