Con Ed Placing Wake-Up Calls to Brooklynites
Our 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…
Our 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]
Anyone who was unhappy about receiving calls at night should email ConEd and tell them the circumstances and why it was problematic. The only way they will stop is if they get enough complaints or if they accidently call the house of an elected official whose young children were awoken from sleep at night.
customerservice@coned.com
Yes, I got a call at 10:35 pm. I was asleep. I wouldn’t have remembered that this happened, but for this blurb on the blog!!!!!! Thank you.
My cellphone rang at 10:40ish, it took me a few seconds to understand what the recording was even saying, because it was timed poorly and started before I answered.
I didn’t get a call (no landline) but even though I would have been very annoyed by such a call, I have to agree with bren in that Con Ed is probably damned if they do and damned if they don’t. i bet if there had been a power outage, this thread with be MUCH longer with complaints.
11:18,
if you turn your ringers off and there’s a real emergcy, what then? these calls shoul have been placed anhour or two earlier. no excuses.
I gues con ed is “damned if they do and damned if they don’t”…. they have alienated so many of their customers through the years, I suppose whatever they do is a day late and a dollar short.
I got one around 10:45, and have absolutely no problem with it. I’m GLAD they’re communicating with customers. I got my first call earlier in the afternoon.
If you don’t want to hear a ringing phone late at night, then turn your ringers down or off.
…or steam pipes to neglect!
conEd, LISTENING? not while there’s golf to be golfed.