Cable employee offering me bribe...3 months free subscription?

Hi sweetie. There's no way i will ever take a bribe, no matter what it is. Let him pay for what he has done. They should make a good example from, him. I despise people who bribe and take bribes.

hello jaiho, uuuhhmmm......he should make it 3 years free subscription well for me i rather let the company give him disciplinary action besides he deserve it. If i am on the situation i will not accept any offer from then unless it will cost a millions i can be considerate . have a nice day!

Hi! The cableman did utterly inappropriate action and made you feel disgusted. If I were in your place, I would not have accepted the bribe and would have allowed disciplinary action to go against him. He did something uncalled for and he harassed you unnecessarily. Now, he should be ready to pay the penalty for his wrong doings. I would say there is no need to spare him.

Hi didi Well you did a right thing but somewhere I believe a bit too harsh for that guy as his entire career is now at stake. Good that you did not accept that offer (bribe) For the response, on the lighter side - well, I have never been offered any bribe and if it came from my cable opertaors then maybe I would go for it and also aske him to provide me a TV set where I can watch the telecast for 3 whole months. The last time I had a cable connection, it was connected to my ole PC via the TV Tuner card but one night there was some high voltage or anything and the whole thing including the PC got burnt out... and there was nothing that we could do. Did not have such good law enforcement here (not even today for many)

I would have definitely had a talk with the company as you did. Good that you called up to company and did not fall for this guy's talks. But something similar happened to us. My husband took the credit card of XYZ Bank after they called him a number of times telling him that it is a card without annual fees. The man who called from the bank itself told that it has no annual charges and convinced my husband to accept it. My husband clearly told them that he will not sign up for it if there were any charges whatsoever and the people who called for verification too confirmed that there would be no annual charges. But then, when the card came, there was a bill and in that it was clearly stated that we would have to pay Rs.7000/-(almost US $156) as annual fees. There began the dirty fight. My husband immediately called up the customer care and registered a complaint and those people told that they will get back to us. But in spite of repeated calls, they did not call back. And we sent a written complaint too. This went on for some months and we were very adamant that we will not pay the amount at all! It is too huge an amount to be taken lightly. And later it was found out that the mistake was on the part of the person who sold us the card and he did not know that the scheme had come to an end just before we signed up. And the bank held an enquiry and asked him to retain us or solve the problem. This guy came running to our house and begged my husband to withdraw his complaint and not make the matters worse because his job was at stake. He would have been given a very bad report and fired if it continued. But he gave us an offer to save his job and we had no choice but to take it as we were not ready to pay the fees too. The offer was that he would pay the annual fees and we will have to withdraw the complaint. And after some days, we would close the card and call up the bank and tell them that we will no longer use the card. He looked so pathetic that we did not want to trouble him more. He was a young chap and had recently joined the bank. We took pity on him and said yes. The complaint was closed and the chap payed the fees. Poor guy, I actually felt sorry for him. But we were in no position to pay the fees and it was not our fault too. So after a few months, we closed the card and were never bothered again. Sorry for the lengthy response, but it was something which was relevant to what you experienced and I wanted to share it.

Hello Jaiho, How are you doing? I presume that your connection was restored in a week's time (maximum). Clearly, you were able to prove your point and company and employees have properly regretted for the inconvenience caused to you. It is also evident that the cableman has realized his fault seriously, and now his job is in trouble and he is begging your pardon. It is universal truth that to err is human. It is also seems true that cableman had no personal issues with you in the past and what he did was a mistake. You can look into the matter and can verify it that he, by mistake did that. If I were in your shoes, I would have exempted him after giving a last warning. I am not sure about the bribe, but one thing is clear that it is possible that a punishment or loss of job due to me will cause him good harm and he will further develop a habit of negligence in his work. If I will forgive him, there are chances that he will improve and become more serious towards his duties.

Hello my dear sister, Why he did the same? Where was his brain when he did wrong things? He should face the consequences and I don’t think I can pardon for a person who accused me as an illegal occupant of a cable connection. Let him face the punishment so that he won’t dare to do this thing to any other person.

first most cablemans now are from other companies not directly connected to the cable company because most of them are subcontracted from engineering services companies.dont accept those illigal connections or you will only be sorry for that theres a law already against illegal connections

I have not experience something of this kind, sis. But there are lots of people working and not working with a cable company had offered me illegal connections. If I were in your position, i will tell the cableman that he's forgiven but will not take his offer of free 3 months. Yes he's forgiven, but the company will have to continue what their plans are for him.

For me if you think it is better than your past cable u you use why not?

He should definitely suffer the consequences of his actions. That is life or at least how life should be. And no i wouldn't have accepted the bribe just because 3 month isn't enough. lol, jk. Never happened to me personally though but it seems you handled the whole situation well.

I would not take the offer, because the cable employee company has to know the consequences of their action or things like this will not stop and some fools who just believes everything will go trought and installs new cable.