Can you believe this?

[Leicesterbaggie]

Some friends of ours have just purchased Sky and a female operative came to put up the dish. They told her where they wanted it but she said that she couldn't put it there as she didn't like heights! They are very nice couple and didn't complain. It is now just above the conservatory and is quite intrusive. Are you telling me that if it had been a male and didn't like heights he would have been employed. I don't think so. Maybe she didn't tell Sky but what 'numpty' applies for that sort of job? I'll be telling them to contact Sky to complain and ask them to send another operative to put it where they want it and to make good any damage that has been done to where it has been originally put. As many of us have said before, the world has gone mad.

[mickd1961]

We had exactly the same with a male SKY fitter at our present house when we moved in in 2017.

He was only willing to work to a certain height and our dish had to go in a slightly awkward spot so he refused to do it.

The next guy they sent was a private contractor in his late 40’s and quite overweight, twice the age and weight of the lad who came from SKY.

He told me this problem was indemic at SKY but it suited him just fine.

He was earning over £1000 a day fitting for them on a private basis.

It’s all about the “health and safety” culture at the bigger companies whilst the private contractor couldn’t give a f u c k and just does the job.

£250k a year or more for fitting SKY dishes, nice and easy money.

[kettering_baggie]

When we went to Sky Digital, the bloke came to put up the new digital dish; it had to go in a different place to the old analogue one for directional reasons. The fool put it on the chimney pot, so that it could get the full force of any wind. The digital dishes are less forgiving when it comes to movement, so any sort of wind would cause the TV picture to break up. Sky refused to come and move it unless I paid them more money, so I did it myself. As they say, if you want a job done properly...........

[Albionic68]

We don't have Sky TV, problem solved.

[DaveP67 is back!]

Sky engineers really are pretty useless, I had a dish above a flat garage roof, when I wanted to upgrade some years back to sky plus the engineer said he wasn’t allowed to work on flat roofs for insurance reasons! It was a pretty new roof and I even offered to go up there to show him how strong it was, being 6’3 and 16 stone that should have given him confidence the roof would hold. In the end I binned Sky off and was lucky to be able to have virgin cable fitted, which IMO is a much better system than relying on a satellite link, also the broadband was much faster than anything a normal landline provided. Still get calls from Sky asking if I want to join them with all sorts of offers. Idiots...

[TipperaryBaggie]

I ditched Sky two years and opted for Virgin cable. As well as a much more reliable TV system, the broadband is light years ahead of Sky and you also get a free unlimited mobile plan thrown in.

[Titchfieldbaggie]

Same experience from SKY. Wanted it fitted to a bungalow roof, but the guy who came didn't do heights, or ladders, so we had to wait a week for another fitter to come out. Couldn't make it up.

[Baggiemadguern]

We don't have Sky TV, problem solved.

We don’t either. Used to have it but put up our own dish and tuned into the satellite. Stopped it n the nineties as saw it as a absolute rip off. Goodbye sky leave it to the suckers. There so much more to do than watch tv. Have free sat, that’s enough for us.

[baggieal]

We don't have Sky TV, problem solved.

Neither do we! Why would we when a dodgy box or a stream gets you and match you want - all for free too!

[WBA1955]

We used to have Sky down here as there are no cables or mains, but we got rid. Got a Firestick instead and if I want to watch Skysports I go to the pub.