Mini shocks are definitely poor grounding. Any reasonable electrician will know how to put in a grounding rod at the house and connect it the neutral side of the feed of the power connection to the house. (It must be done at the house by grounding the neutral in the power fuse box) If he picks the wrong one he will soon know about it when he turns the power back on believe me so he cant leave you with the wrong side grounded.
The aspect of lights being live when the switch for the light is turned off is a common error in the Philippines where the installer never bothered to maintain proper color coding of the lighting connections and switches. They very often get them mixed up so that the switch actually turns off the neutral leaving the active live and still connected to the bulb socket. This is dangerous and can be corrected easily by simply reversing the connection to the switch but again get an Electrician to do that for you. It's not a matter of removing the switch and turning the wires there round the other way. The actual wire down to the switch must be reconnected so that the active feed is switched and not the neutral, or , if all the lights are affected this way, it will be easier to identify the active at the fuse box and correct it there by altering the connection to the lighting fuse. But again, don't do this yourself unless you know what you are doing. Get an electrician because it is possible that fuse is supplying something else in the house if a bodgey electrician did the installation in the first place.
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Unannounced brownouts are due to a failure of the grid. (Take a look at the rat nest of cables on the poles for one example of why this "grid" constantly fails. If that garbage is what they let everyone see just imagine what is going on with the stuff that is out of sight and out of mind.)
Mismanagement/incompetence/don't give a f*ck.
A combination of universal power supplies, generator and backup internet options (if your ISP goes down during brownouts...but most don't). Infrastructure has long been a problem in the developing world. It has improved quite a bit since I first got here but it is still something you should have factored in to your decision to work online from the Philippines. While it is annoying it really is nothing new.
I guess you better get a few UPS, power regulator and a generator then. NORECO certainly isn't going to give a crap about your business or loss of it from their negligence and incompetence as it seems they barely give a crap about their own.
Wish in one hand, sh*t in the other, see which one fills up first.
Yeah, you will or you won't have electricity.
Oh? Can you post that contract here? I would bet money there is language in there that makes sure you have a 0% chance of winning any civil lawsuit.
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