Wiseass Cable Guy Learns the Hard Way

[thallus1979]

I would call the police for false imprisonment, then sue them in court. All this after i disconnect their service

[sinerik]

Working with this type of people is the hard part of intallers

[sinerik]

Following with ghe company rules n deleys on the way. am cable guy,and sometimes,custumers dont hunderstad and thats the hard part ,living unhappy custumer it may results the lost of my job

[vipervenom1000r]

If i were the cable guy, i would have calmly waited until they brought back the ladder, climed down, and start BREAKING FACES!!!

[srt8rider]

Reschedule!

[jameskoolkat]

Red striped shirt guys favors George Bush just a bit! watch?v=C26iKtPYrcc

[ZayaX0712]

Ha Ha...I Wish They Would!

[ArmsDealer06]

Normally people will have service when I leave a job. They wouldn't.

[mrjiggleman97]

They sure showed him that's what I'm gonna do next time when the cable guy is late

[Coastergeekperson04]

Where's the funny part because I can't find it.

[ilaivunibola]

Srew this clip , wat if all the cable installers dont show up to work just for a day satellite installers included ,we have time frames like 7:30-8:00am all the way to 4-6 pm in my area i look forward to the weekends 7:30am on a saturday i get there at around 7:45 am sub still sleeping . They open the door hair everywhere should be on funny video !that just cracks me up ! But yeah screw this video whoever they maybe .

[myjobsucksass]

I'm an installer too and this is crap. I get stuck on jobs trying to fix the junk ass cable that people already have and running my own lines that it can't be helped. My jobs are automatically dispatched to me so I have no idea what's next and sometimes it's a job from a time slot that's already passed so the customer automatically thinks it's my fault and I'm late. I bust my ass on every job and I do my best to make sure the customer is happy when I leave....even if the job was given to me late

[hmireles85]

@myjobsucksass i am a customer account executive in a call center, and youre right, customers they all think we are all just scratching nuts all the time, and they think because the appt was rescheduled or missed is because techs on field are not doing their job when most of the times they are, i dont like the way they made this video is kind of offensive for the people who do their work correctly. Big dislike for the youtuber who made and uploaded this video

[br3edage]

Like its the Cable installers fault that he gets flooded with jobs

[fred1671]

@br3edage You're right. It's the cheaply made, mass-produced equipment used by the service provider. If we received quality equipment, there would be far less service calls. Couple that with deplorable customer service - due to outsourcing, lack of proper communications and the hiring of absolute retards - the technician should consider it a blessing he or she even finds the customers house.

Mos of these guys are very good at their job, but they have so much other shit working against them.

[eastbay5l0]

yeah customers are dicks, most people are assholes, u only get those 2 or 3 maybe cool customers out of 10 a day, depending on what area ur working in, i work out of sf california and i just got transfered here , so its now about 50% of the customers are cool, and dont mind burnin a blunt or 2 after i finish the installations, so yea we have to put up with a lot of bulls****

[OpeAaron]

"For every minute you don't let me down I'm going to drill a hole in your roof"

[jvoltron]

These guys are still morons no matter how you look at it..and to i8246i..<<< whatever the fuck that shit means..You mom said hi..lmfao!

[aarlin81]

I used to install satellites and it's the same bullshit. Most of the time it's some dumb fuck that couldn't understand the timeframe.

If you scheduled an AM job you were called the day before that we would be there between 8 and 12. I would get there and assholes would be asleep or bitching that I was not there AT 8.

If my ETA is between 8 and 12 it doesn't mean I'll show up at 8 and be done at or before 12. Plan too take the day off. Check in with the guy and make sure he does good work

[spencey820]

HAHA ANOTHER JACKASS CUSTOMER THAT THINKS THE TECH SHOWS UP LATE ON PURPOSE ... WHAT DONT YOU UNDERSTAND IS WE FINISH A JOB HIT A BUTTON AND NEXT ONE POPS UP AND WE GET THERE WITHIN 15 MINUTES YOUR LATE REPORT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TECHNICIAN GET IT THROUGH ALL OF YOUR PUNY LITTLE HEADS

[rsdandy]

Hope this wasn't sanctioned by Haggar clothing. I am a tech, and I would have to find a way down. maybe through the roof.

[N4tti1ntampa]

You guys looks like goearge bush assholes!

[downsouth187]

CABLE TECHS FOR LIFE!

[OpeAaron]

I love it when the cust serv rep that custs book the appt with, book the call for 25min when it will obviously take about a hour, but then you get some BS to deal with "oh while you're here" so it takes an additional 30min. If you don't deal with their other problem while you're there, they bitch at you for not taking care of it "because the girl on the phone said you'd fix that too" I've worked from 8am-1130pm before, w/ only a 15min break to eat some fast food & some custs show no gratitude.

[N4tti1ntampa]

@OpeAaron They think you take a hour lunch and only see 3 customers in a day to program remotes.

[rocnstyle]

That's a good way to get your house burned down in the middle of the night. "Mysteriously" I definitely wouldn't recommend doing this.

[yellowzx6r]

Who is the stupid one? They think it's the technician's fault lol. Yeah, he set up the appointment. Funny as hell though. Also, at least where I work the techs don't know what job they are going to next so they are set up for failure because dispatch doesn't give courtesy calls. I had a lady scream at me once for being early. I would have waited had she not been home but she freaked. Best part was telling her she had her TV on the wrong channel lol.

[bwsheppard]

I work for a cable company and train their technicians. I have to say that I am laughing my ass off at this commercial. Hooah!!

[N4tti1ntampa]

@bwsheppard for got what its like to be in the feild huh?

[bwsheppard]

@N4tti1ntampa Yeah I guess so.. I think you are taking this a little to serious!! Lighten up Francis!!

[soobwhale]

13 people who watched this video are cable guys

[jvoltron]

@soobwhale You are correct! i was a cable guy.Id like to return the favor to these two guys by driving my truck into there house.FUCK these 2 morons!

[i8246i]

@jvoltron

Says the fucktard who can't understand the difference between "they're" "their" and "there"....

Wow, all that education sure paid off, didn't it?

[jvoltron]

@i8246i Your a goddamn moron..

[kirbyyasha]

Sometimes, people run late. Nice thing is, many cable companies provide a courtesy credit for being late. Now if that happened to me, I'd be on the phone with the police, and of course there'd be other issues. And I absolutely hate when people schedule appointments with other plans.

[pro151a]

In this day of instant modern communications, you pissed off installers and your dispatchers need to learn how to use a phone and notify customers if you will be delayed. You have absolutely no excuse for doing anything else.

Most customers would understand and be pleased to have this simple courtesy extended to them.

If you are going to be late and don't call, you deserve to be treated with the same consideration you show your customer.

[vcantr000]

These guys are asses. They wouldn't get any service at all.

[OpeAaron]

@vcantr000

Pretty smart of these guys, piss off someone who knows your name, phone number, where you live.

[4362mont]

Not funny. Just stupid. I'd be ashamed to be the slobs who acted in this. Smarmy attitude, really makes me want to punch that fat slob in the face. Maybe it would be funny to send those to asses to China and have them harass the kids that make their pants in their forced labor camps. That'd be a good commercial. Haggar...are they even in business anymore? Who the hell wears stretch slacks anyway?

[scifi75]

He would be putting that ladder back on the house pretty damn quick if that installer starting ripping out shingles.

[SpKing85]

this video is so gay. . . . .

[gooch777]

Gay ass shit from Haggar. Its funny how some people think they have the upper hand just because an installer is at their home. Installers have already heard every dumb thing that comes out of your mouth 9000 times. Show some respect to the people that come to your home to to do shit you wouldnt dare do. Like crawling in the attic or a crawlspace. You'd be surprised how much better your service is.

[GrundleTerror]

fuck yer daughter's piano recital.. last 5 hours of your life were spent doing shit that isn't worth being alive.. customer never knows where cable comes in to the house.. tech would never believe it comes in on the roof.. touch my ladder i will shitstomp you.. i will gouge the biggest hole in roof with shitkicker.. will use claw of hammer on yer fucking FACE.. ordered dvr don't even know what one does.. faggy pants,, i will fuck your face

[metalmshreves]

i would have jumped until i landed in his bedroom. then calmly walked to my ladder throw it on the truck and leave.

[slcCATVguy]

bet they get that ladder back up quick when i start kickin cap shingles off the roof. a tech that is late is probably dedicated because he spent more time completing a job earlier to someone's satisfaction. you could get the guy that's on time, looks at your house for 5 minutes, and finds a reason not to do your install. take your pick. dont schedule installs around other shit it is extremely unpredictable how long it will take. i usually work 11 hours a day because i do all the shit you ask for

[markyd21]

This is hilarious. I would have someone's ass arrested as soon as that ladder hit the ground. I don't give a shit what recital you missed.

[N4tti1ntampa]

Why is the cable guy on the roof not the attic? maybe becuase its dish network?

dumb asses.

[amcabbott]

I would have stuck the gay one in the head with a screw driver and jumped on the other ones neck to break my fall.

[onyxoverdose]

I myself am a graduated CATV Installer, Although I am now a lineman for the company I work for.

First thing first, Customers WILL ALWAYS LIE! They will steal, cheat, and ease their way in to get what ever it is they want. When your in a competitive market, there are absolutely no room for errors or its your ass.

When you pull up to an easy job, and you think it will be an easy 1,2,3 adios. WRONG.. The house is wired with cable Jesus used, so there is missed time frames used to fix this house.

[onyxoverdose]

Although this installer featured in this video looks like a pot-head slacker, Most CATV installers are dedicated career professionals. I made CATV as my profession 5 years ago, and haven't done anything besides succeed and rise higher in the company. I am now a BCT 5 or what most know as plant maintenance technician

[i8246i]

@onyxoverdose

Doesn't excuse a motherfucking thing when you jackasses don't show up on time and don't do your job properly.

[onyxoverdose]

@i8246i

Awww, did someone miss out on their 30 seconds of porn? Or did a cable guy show up late and catch you beating your meat to child porn?

[joeyhol75]

@i8246i you jackasses? fuck you! get a fucking clue! does the installer own the company? no he doesnt you fucking coward. do you think he slept till one? or do you think his company loaded him with 12 hours of work? call the fucking company you bitch. Is the installer a private contractor that you personally called, and did he come price a job and tell you when hed be there? no shithead he didnt. most likely he just heard of you 20 minutes before he arrived. get a real fucking problem. loser.

[Beastie583]

just dumb.

[Mike19sf]

yea thats all funny til he pulled his drill out, one hole for every second that ladder isnt in place, < i bet his cable works real good now. then piss off the phone guy and the direct tv guy then you r stuck engineering your own service. good luck with that.

[HoodCanalSouthSider]

These videos are GREAT....Please bring back Chip and Bobo... That is a classic

[amsyco]

So if I climb up on this roof and these fools take the ladder, the only question is who's ass do I kick first when I get down? Dude in the striped shirt or his husband's?

[workman3886]

Ok, so I am a cable guy, easy job right.... WRONG, you people have no respect for our job and what we do, if we do run behind, it's because we are trying to fix customers right and not in the 35 to 45 min time frame we are suppose to, so next time your cable guy is on-time, your cable most likely won't be fixed... remember that...

Charter BBT3

[evilbeast1987]

very true, i have been a tech for over 5 years now and even seasoned techs such as me get held up, as a matter of proof i had a 9 outlet install with 12 phone jacks today. took me 4hours and that was also running the drop. this was supposed to be a reconnect non the less. i still had 2 more jobs left and i called my customers and let them know. not hard and is common courtesy. most decent techs will do that.worst part is i am not a contractor, i get paid by the hour not the outlet!!!!

[Kreggsy6]

@evilbeast1987 9 outlets and 12 phone jack and drop....that's bullshit, I'm a comcast tech and that's an 8 hour project with 2 techs. well to do it right, so I'm not sure how you did!! But you are right with the whole calling the customer bit, according to customers I either show up early or late, they are like oh, I wasn't expecting you this early hang on for a minute,(while they put some clothes on) or wow I thought you'd be here an hour ago!! it's whenever our dispatchers tells em.

[orlando50dgo]

What if you were the first customer, and the installer had to finish your install careless and in a hurry because the next customer its calling and complaining that u are late and he just missed 1 hour of TV so now is life is now miserable

[greenjeansmjr]

Sorry, I must say; "A" and "LOT" are TWO words, people! I see this a lot !

What happened to the dog poop Haggar commercial?

[alphaman1101]

your fhunny you think i work with a cable company? maby a fiberoptics company in the near future but now no

[alphaman1101]

damn who got up your ass?

[psykolyko]

haggar pants are for queers

[gooch777]

Only faggits wear Haggar.

[jchantana]

for all the cable-related people complaining about this commercial, it's not a knock on you guys. i, for one, have had very good experiences with many cable employees. but this commercial is a knock on the unfortunate majority of cable (and other utility) services that show up late and sometimes not at all. i've also had many experiences like this, more often than not. it's just a comedy piece guys

[kong563]

wow ....love how people make fun of the overworked and the underpaid

[lindoran]

Thats a 10-4

[twisted2damax]

this video is just plain stupid. whoever made this obviously knows nothing about cable. there was no drop in sight on the roof, unless its on the side somewhere. i've never had this kind of problem with a customer. those haggar wearing pricks in the video could probably get sued if they did that in real life.

[Chopperpt]

I work for the cable company and I had a customer move my ladder once. All I did was called my supervisor and call 911 and the guy did 3 months in jail for endangering the life of a utility worker while on the job thats a big fine. But only a dumb ass would do a thing like what these guys did on this video. That's why we credit your account when where late to your appoinment!

[hule1186]

we? I didnt know u owned a cable company

[Charrm]

he doesn't, but when your tech is late or your service don't work and you're being all whiny and bitchy about it, you forget he doesn't own a cable company,don't you? so yeah... we.

[hule1186]

Don't be late..Remember the customer is always right..I thought you would know that since you own the cable company...

[Charrm]

cable cstmrs are psychos - they are not always right and if you want the job done right, sit down and shut up. sometimes it takes a little longer to get it done correctly.

[kg4yuv]

Amen to that. The customer IS NOT always right, that attitude is what generates trouble calls.

Remember customers, you do not know anything about cable wiring and splitting unless you have previous experience in the field. Stop buying RG-59 and gold splitters from radio shack and "doing it yourself". Just making more for us to fix that we don't get paid for.

[hule1186]

Man are u serious it is not hard to hook up cable.Oh I forgot u have to go to college to learn how to hook up cable. Man get real

[rtniedz]

ha good luck there is alot more then you can think of. Its not just hooking up wires.

I thought the same thing you did till I got the job.

let me say this most people wouldn't be smart enough.

[hule1186]

In your world they are not right. But we all know that a customer is a PAYING customer which pays for your car note. If customers stop subscribing to that particular company what happens ? that company goes under and you lose your job..I agree some customers can be over zealous which does not make it right but it is what it is.

[alphaman1101]

THEY CANT HELP BEING LATE IF THE PREVIOUS JOB ISNT COMPLETE! do you always do a job half done think!

[hule1186]

give the next customer a courtesy call and tell him your going to be a little late...u think..or u should know that already since you u know

[hule1186]

i bet u dont you all dont tell that to the customer. enough said

[hule1186]

Stop being late or if your going to be late call the next customer. It's called courtesy call. Save's alot of bitchy , whiny mess u think

[damein17]

if i will be late to an appointment i do call. 99% of the time i get " wow your early" but either way if we are late for any reason customers do not care and will always try to get something free. some expect you to do something and not charge them my answer to that is "do you do your job for free? "NO" then why do you expect me to do mine for free. we do not get paid by the hour. its itemized billing, we get paid for what we do.if we do something free its money out of our pocket not yours

[damein17]

also it takes time to wire a 100 yr old home, when it has no cable installed. some jobs can take 20 min some can take 5-6 hours. and we usually have 2 to three jobs in a time frame. time frames here are 3 hours, like 11-2 or 2-5. so if you have three jobs that have to be completly rewired it takes a little time. but those favors are great.. i know here if a customer pulls this stuff, its a life time ban from cable though there SS number.

[alphaman1101]

lol

[hsdtech]

I do a frog splash off the roof onto the jerks. Piss on their faces. And then, buy a pair of their pants. They looked really comfortable.

[lburna82]

im a tech and i would have been fukkin that guys roof up. he would have been pleadin for me to come down.( looks like u got a leak here! i take care of it!!)

[slickrick201]

As an installer myself this commercial upsets me. When I am on a job say at your home I am not going to leave until I am done. This may make me late for your job. I take pride in what I do and I would rather be late for one job than do your job bad or half assed just to be ontime for a timeslot. It's rare that I personally don't make a timeslot but things happen. I have also NEVER not gone to an assigned job. When my sister passed I did call my super about my jobs. She took priority.

[twisted2damax]

I'm a cable guy, and if a customer did this to my ladder, :

A) i know where you live, thats should tell you enough

[fyrbyrd80]

of course you would... you'd be on their freakin roof bwaaaaaahahahahaha :)

[Islandrx23]

First things first he would not need to leave the ladder for the reconnect. Even if that was true I would walk across kick in that window to the right and run down and lock them out or I would wait til they left and steal the breaker panel. Calling corporate on the tech would be better than stranding him on the roof. I know of guys that have made customers life a nightmare for doing stupid things to them. Of course I would never be as unprofessional as him. However the job does wear you down.

[alphaman1101]

hahaha lol

[STORYTELLERNYSP]

These are Managers from Time Warner and CableVision. Watch how they treat the technician

[KoroOutbreak]

Yes, Haggar pants. Official pants of the American asshole. Now with extra pleats! Do you have money? Are you white? Live in the suburbs? Have no respect for the working class?

Wear haggar, be a giant prick! Honestly, this is the worst marketing campaign EVER. EVER. EVER EVER EVER.

[TexRooster]

ROFLMAO..

[AoDC]

MORE MORE MORE

I love you guys =D

[cockeyt]

The cable guy kind of resembles Orlando Bloom

[drockncrisso]

I SO want to do this!! My husband and I have been stood up by TIME WARNER 3 times in a row. "Be there between 9 and 12" they say. .. then no one shows. AHhh.. theres nothin like the catharsis of a commercial short.

[jamesgirl37]

HaHa pay back's a bitch!

[EddyGurge]

Keep it up!

[GoodKnight71]

Another excellent film!

[cooljuggler]

HA, HA!

[gallinofiloxxx]

Firts view and first comment yeahhh. haggarfilms are excelent. keep making things right boys.