Ah, #agl you continue to test me. Not only can you not read my meter due to the presence of the nonexistent dog, but you won't let me do the work for you. Not only does it fail, but it won't let you retry until the next day!

"That didn't go to plan

Something went wrong processing your read.
Please try again tomorrow."

Whoa, this just gets better. Rang the #agl help line, went through phone menu fun, including sending DOB, recieving a 2FA PIN via SMS and re-entering it, then got placed in a queue for a person ...

... who then "is required to verify my identity" and needs full name, DOB, address, to send a PIN to my phone via SMS and have it read back, then to send a PIN to my email and have it read back!

FUCK 'EM

@ajft
Security theatre and winnowing out anyone who can't last the distance.
@ajft
Feel your pain! Performative nonsense! What a shame we can’t report them to an Unproductivity Commission. 😐
@ajft There's a reason we moved off AGL. Alas, the company we moved to has been bought by AGL, so as of the 30th of this month, we'll be back with them (until we find somewhere else to go).