People Stealing Fiber Optic Cables Are Costing Me Thousands Of Dollars And I’m Getting Warnings At Work. Is There Anyone I Can Sue For This?
So for the past year and a half, someone has been stealing the internet cables, which causes the internet to go out for my entire area.
Location: Kentucky, USA.
They usually hit between 12 AM and 5 AM, and Kinetic will not get the internet fixed until somewhere between 7 PM and 12 AM.
My fiance and I both work from home. Every time this happens, we either don’t earn any money or we have to sacrifice our valuable sick time or vacation time (which is equal to losing money). So basically, we are losing out on TWO incomes, and we have less vacation time to use for an ACTUAL vacation.
On top of this, my job works on an attendance point system. We start out with 20 points and every time we have an unexpected absence or tardy, we lose points. My last two absences have not been excused because kinetic keeps sending me the wrong outage time. It basically looks like I’m lying about the outage times. Therefore, I have went under 10 points and have received a written warning at work about my attendance. WHEN THIS ISNT EVEN MY FAULT.
Is there anyone I can sue for this because I have lost THOUSANDS of dollars due to this shit.
Kinetic? The person responsible, if they’re ever caught??
I am sick of this shit. Losing money and having MY livelihood threatened due to some little thug.
Edit: I don’t have an exact number of how many times this has happened, but I’m sure I could get the information from kinetic. I know it has happened AT LEAST over 20 times, most likely more.
Edit 2: I don’t get cellular service at my house so that is not an option. Going to a cafe or library is not a solution because I work on a government contract with classified information. I’m only allowed to work at my home address. I can only be wired in through Ethernet, no WiFi.
I’ve never heard of starlink but I’ll look into it and see if it’s offered in my area.
The people coming at me like this is my fault are weird af. You’d be upset too if you either had to lose out on money or spend more money to be able to work. The fault is on the person stealing the cables and on the police and kinetic for doing nothing to stop this.
Edit 3: So it seems my option is to gather evidence and sue the perpetrator(s) if they are caught. Thanks for everyone who reached out with ACTUAL legal advice. To all the weirdos, I suggest you find something in your life that makes you happy other than leaving rude and snarky comments on Reddit. Reddit karma will never fix your ugly personality.
Edit 4: starlink is not secure enough for my job.
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