
Here is what's giving me so much grief these days. Notice the check marks? The bars represent my electricity consumption for March and June. The two bars are almost the same height with June even slightly higher. You may say what are you complaining about when your consumption decreased from last month's? Well, you see, and this is what I have been telling the customer reps at Meralco (I pity them because they are bearing the brunt of my fury but I can't help it especially when they use those rehearsed customer unfriendly lines), I was at home the whole of March (up to the third week of April) recovering from an operation which took place last week of February, which means the two ACs were on practically 24/7. Plus, we had an additional warm body at home who we got to take care of me after the op. She cooked us breakfast, lunch, and dinner using an electric multi cooker. She used the rice cooker which is also powered by electricity at least once a day everyday. She made me veggie juice using the electric juicer. She watched her daily morning shows, noontime talent and variety shows and prime time soap operas on the living room TV set while I sometime watched in the bedroom. She stayed with us until the end of April. When I got my bill for May, I already complained that the electricity consumption did not decrease when I already went back to work and B is no longer staying with us, which means I hardly use the multi cooker, and I never used the juicer and rice cooker after B left. The Meralco rep told me to check my meter as it may be grounded. Grounded?! We live in a condo barely 5 years old. We use those new digital meters strategically house on the third floor of our building. All the meters are in one room away from sunlight or rain and maintained by our building maintenance staff. My point is how can it be grounded?! Anyways, I decided to pay (I didn't have a choice, do I?), avoid disconnection, and give it another month, so imagine my surprise (not pleasant) when I again saw my bill and checked the chart for June. While it has gone down from May, it is the same as when I was home the entire month of March. We are back to our routine pre-op (off to work by 8am), with no new appliances and/or gadgets, why is it that our electric bill refuses to return to my pre-op consumption as well?
I spoke with a friend from the office who underwent a similar operation in March and she also observed the same thing, her electricity consumption is the same as when she was at home recovering from the operation. Never mind that we were at home then 24/7 using ACs, appliances and gadgets and now, we spend our days in the office. Seems like once you move up a certain level of electricity consumption there is no going back. Siiiiigggghhhhh...
Just had to vent. I just paid my electric bill. Can anyone help us please?
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