If only a hooker can fix my GE fridge

(So the busiest stretch at work is finally over, which means I can go back to writing a blog that nobody reads.  Hmm.)

My GE fridge has been wonky for a while.  You’d think I would have clued in when the ice cream started getting soupy.  Anyway so I finally had the GE repair guy came over on Friday.  Now being technologically savvy, I googled this GE freezer problem thingy already before I called GE, and apparently some other people have the same problem – something about the defrosting unit not coming on.  It could be the heater, or as big as the computer part the controls the timing of the heater coming on.

Well GE dude came over on Friday morning, pull out his portable computer thingy to diagnose my freezer (it’s a Panasonic, btw; you’d think GE could make one too, but more on that later.)  Dude promptly announced it’s the heater.  Whew, not an expensive repair – or so I thought.  Well, the final bill came out to $240.  $40 was for the heater part, and the other $200 was pretty much for the 30 mins that dude a) showed up at my door ($80 service call), and b) diagnose and swap the part in 30 mins ($96 labour)  $200 for being blessed 30 mins with a GE repair guy.  At that rate, a hooker is less expensive!

Which got me wondering if that’s why the GE repair dudes are using Panasonic built diagnostic machines then a GE one.  GE breaks, and when they do it’s cheaper for them to give each other blow jobs than to fix their own diagnostic machines!