Dedicated to anyone who knows what 143 is.
Why is it that we are supposed to be accessible all times by our work and friends? I would like to be able to shut everything off and just enjoy solitude and quiet for even a weekend. Unfortunately technology has brought us closer together and ironically all we want to ever do is "get away."
Let's take my work for example, and I love my job, let me start with that disclaimer. Yet as an employee I need to be on call for them when they need me. So what do they do? They give me a pager, yes that is right I said a pager: can we say low-budget non-profit? They like to know that they can page me on my handy dandy beeper when they need me. Um, 1993 called and would like its mobile locating device back. Sadly enough I have been away for the beeper industry for so long that I barely know how to use the thing. Pretty embarrassing to have changed the batteries and the things buzzes incessantly. Won't stop, like a permanant vibrating pain in the arse. So what did I do? Drove my happy self down to the communications store and proceeded to tell them all the issues I was having with this fine piece of machinery (which belongs in the Museum of history if you ask me...) They then went on to explain to me that I had the batteries in upside down.. Such is life. Guess the pager is actually smarter than me. What a pity and blow to my self esteem.
Its funny because even though I have been with my company for a while now and I always carry my trusty pager I have never once been beeped, the whole staff reaches me on my cell phone. Sign of the times I suppose...
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