Met the most ridiculous and immature and unprofessional individual i've ever encountered today! Staff from bras basah called us early this morning to tell us that our next door neighbour (this guy called Raymond) from Signcraft had suddenly cut off our electric supply because we had apparently not paid him for the invoice he gave us last week! Background to this is firstly, we actually share a common electricity supply line with our neighbour, though we each have our own meters to calculate how much we each incur per month. For some strange reason, Signcraft had not paid their electricity bills for the past 5 months and hence they had not billed us as well (until we got one single invoice on 10 Nov). In the meantime, they got warning letters from Singapore Power to pay up. Only when they actually got the third and final warning to pay up or get their line cut off by 19th Nov (which is today) did they start chasing us for our part of the payment For the next 5 to 6 days, Raymond started to bug us morning and night even though we explained repeatedly that we could not get our boss to sign the cheque payment at such short notice (being only 5 to 6 days since we got the invoice!) and we would pay him as soon as we could. Without notice, we got our line cut off by him (mind you, it wasn't Singapore Power that cut it off.. Signcraft themselves still had their own electric supply runnning) this morning. When we confronted him in-person immediately after failing to talk sense to him over the phone, we found a shivering, cowardly guy who admitted he was childish and angry. durrhh??? Ridiculous chap continued to refuse to turn on our electric supply and eventually, we had to call in the police (whom he even tried to get to throw us out of his shop - much to their rolling-eyes amusement), the landlord (who gently - so as not to hurt his fragile pride and as if talking to a stubborn child - told him it was wrong of him to do that) and also Singapore Power itself - in front of all of whom he made a public spectacle of himself as he demanded an apology from us for "ignoring" his repeated calls and still continued to think he was right. What a rigmarole that cost us a whole morning of work!

Such people make working a pain.. grr...