I can believe the data cock up is a random IT mistake, but PPL's billing practice in response to it is suspect. If they had responded to customers by sending them a corrected bill and/or notifying them billing would be temp. delayed while they fixed the problem, you wouldn't have people so up in arms crying conspiracy.

Instead, PPL's response is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ pay us anyways. Yes, it's going to cost them to fix their mistake, but the extra revenue its customers are temporarily floating them acts as a payday loan (of sorts) to fund the fix. PPL can then refund their customers at their leisure - sans interest, of course.

Folks can't wait till next month, you took food out of their mouths now!

Literally anything other than a bunch of the dumbest fucking bullies in America who were given military equipment and told that they were Hero Warriors who are above the law and can bestow death on anyone they'd like with impunity. Quite literally anything.

> Unironic yes to all of that

Fine. So who wants to replace them? Where are those people?

I completely created a profile on career link and set it up on the jobs and what I was looking and that was it. However I did do my job searches in linked and indeed but I never had to notify the unemployment but I had did save emails and etc. incase they ever requested it

Same.... 😐

We are getting slaughtered here in PA. The raising of rates broad range needs to stop.

Attic insulation can be a big saver especially if you're able to plug up any decent sized holes that may have arose from animals or wear/tear. A colleague of mine recouped his investment on insulating the attic in about two years!

I had to do this and mine came down to $171. I bought my new house in November of 2022 and got my first bill at the end of December and it was around $350. I was like how in the hell did we use that much heat. We keep the house at 68 degrees..

Unironic yes to all of that, Rampart at LAPD even had tattoos for killing people.
 
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-feb-08-me-62143-story.html

 
The police are a violent gang, you do not send violent gangsters to help people with mental health problems.

> The police are a violent gang who react to everything with violence.

Is this an organized gang? Who is in this gang? Federal police? State police? Local police? School police? Is this a voluntary membership? Do they have gang rules that they have to follow? Killing mental people is one of them apparently?

> This idea that mental health professionals should arrive first at 911 calls is asinine.

 
Why?

This is why I never do automatic payments. Computer errors happen all the time. They happened to customers where I work too. It's not hard to just pay your bill once a month.

Come the fuck on, you can find stories from all over the country about officers who didn't feel like dealing with a mentally ill person and just murdered them.
 
https://www.insider.com/cop-said-i-dont-have-time-shooting-keith-vidal-2020-11

 
The police are a violent gang who react to everything with violence. We shouldn't be sending violent gangsters to "help" people in a mental health crisis.

I feel that! I had issues with my CPAP in the summer when it was next to the air conditioner!

You could try turning down the humidifier, but it seems like you probably thought of that.

Keep in mind, thermostats aren't that accurate, odds are we keep the houses at about the same temp.

I start to not be able to work comfortably around the house if it gets below 70, it feels like my fingers are too stiff to work properly and I'm not arthritic. Longer sleeves aren't an answer because I just push them up my forearms, and wearing clothes that are too bulky interferes with my ability to do housework

I would let the house get cooler at night but it interferes with my sleep because I wear a CPAP mask (sleep apnea), I get condensation that then rolls out of the mask and up my nose. Not conducive to a good night of sleep

I would like to save more money, I've been frugal my entire adult life, but things in life interfere. It's frustrating

No local politician will cut the budget of the police department. They will definitely cut mental health budgets or any other health budget for that matter.

id definitely consider doing some of the film to hold yourself over. its not the greatest looking stuff, but who cares. it will save you hundreds just dealing with it the rest of this year.

that or even get some quality full coverage curtains for the original windows, and getting in the habit of keeping your blinds closed when you arent in the room.

we have a pellet stove, but we can literally cut the amount of fuel we burn in half by keeping blinds shut vs open.

i know you didnt ask for this advice, but it might help you out.

PPL fucked this up when people called and the direction they got was “just pay it and we will work it out later.” Yeah no, some people’s bills were close to $2000.

Hmmm yeah, something that came with repercussions too….

The house was built in the 1960s and a couple of the windows are original. So literally anything would be an improvement on what we have lol

Do they have an option to view your bill online and pay online, rather than calling to pay? (I have a different provider so I don’t know about PPL.). I can also pay online thru my bank, if I know the amount.

Wow. They fucked me up too. I put plastic over my windows in beginning of December and didn't put the heat up above 80 degrees and my bill was sooooooooooo high, like double what it usually is.

id try some decent curtains, or some of the window film to see if it makes a big difference before you make a big adjustment.. how old are the windows?

i mean, thats not really how it works with heating fuels. there is always competition. and if not, there are likely dozens of propane companies that would undercut them if their prices were that inflated and would be more than happy to convert your shit over to burn propane.

prices are high in the area because prices are high everywhere.