Alliant Energy, Janesville WI Customer Service, Female Supervisor Disconnected our service, when bill had been paid in full, charged me an extra $180.00 to have service reconnected, and said our meter had been tampered with. They tampered with it Janesville, Wisconsin

Seem to be left out.

You pay the past due bill at 8am and according to you on that same day(well actually a couple hours later) you go to work only to find that the Electricity is off.  You just paid your bill and according to how you wrote this the power should not have been cut off at 8am,  but you don't call the company to find out why it is off.  What do you do?  You leave to go shopping for 2 hours because you needed a break, and who doesn't need a break after 5 minutes of work. 

Then we skip ahead two days where they come to really turn your power back on, but because it was already on they figured you tampered with it so they cut you off.  I guess the "Power Fairies" just came down and turned your power back on after a couple of hours.

Here is what probably really happened.  You were delinquent and had to pay the bill by the previous day but didn't, so by 8am Tuesday it was already cut-off. 

You seem totally upset about your products and business now, how come you didn't seem to worry about all of your products on that Tuesday?  Perhaps it is because you decided to conveniently leave for two hours knowing your power would be magically restored without calling anyone.  What a great alibi after all if you are not there you have no idea how the power got turned back on.

So what's the whole story?