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This Wednesday felt like Monday.
Nov. 4th, 2009 08:46 pmI woke up at 7:30 this morning the Green Hornet theme song, a sign that someone I didn't know was calling me. I checked the ID and since I didn't immediately recognize it, I sent it to voicemail and tried to go back to sleep.
Unfortunately, for the past several nights, I've reverted to a newborn's sleep schedule and keep waking up, so going back to sleep after being woken up by Kato was pretty pointless, but I did try.
My alarm goes off a couple of hours later and after laying in bed watching TV for a little bit, I check my phone. I go to retrieve the voicemail I was left and...nothing. My phone says I don't have a voicemail number programmed. Except I do because I programmed it when I got the phone a couple of years ago and have used it on occasion since then. But for whatever reason this morning, that number had totally disappeared from my phone.
As I was already predisposed to not being in the mood, I set the phone down lest I hurl it through the wall and decided to eat breakfast and read the paper before I dealt with it.
I came back to the situation much calmer. I searched my paperwork and my account online to see if I could find the voicemail number and came up empty. So, finally, reluctantly, I called customer service.
I hate making phone calls and I was going to put it off until later except my friend called and told me that the phone call I got this morning was a place she applied to looking for a personal reference and could I call them back as soon as possible because she really wants this job.
So I called and a very nice lady helped me out and gave me the voicemail number (which when I saw it, I recognized it and I know I've got it written down somewhere, but I can't for the life of me remember where, of course). Once that was done and I reprogrammed it into my phone, I listened to the voicemail and called the place back and did the personal reference. It took all of five minutes and the whole time I was thinking, "Why would you call people so early in the morning to do this? Not everyone is up and pleasant that early in the morning. Cranky people will not give favorable references. Do you not want to hire people?"
But, I did give my friend a good reference and I got my voicemail working again, so happy ending all around.
And yes I realize how silly it is for someone who doesn't like to make phone calls and doesn't really ever talk on the phone to be so pissy about her voicemail not working. Yeah, that wasn't lost on me.
Unfortunately, for the past several nights, I've reverted to a newborn's sleep schedule and keep waking up, so going back to sleep after being woken up by Kato was pretty pointless, but I did try.
My alarm goes off a couple of hours later and after laying in bed watching TV for a little bit, I check my phone. I go to retrieve the voicemail I was left and...nothing. My phone says I don't have a voicemail number programmed. Except I do because I programmed it when I got the phone a couple of years ago and have used it on occasion since then. But for whatever reason this morning, that number had totally disappeared from my phone.
As I was already predisposed to not being in the mood, I set the phone down lest I hurl it through the wall and decided to eat breakfast and read the paper before I dealt with it.
I came back to the situation much calmer. I searched my paperwork and my account online to see if I could find the voicemail number and came up empty. So, finally, reluctantly, I called customer service.
I hate making phone calls and I was going to put it off until later except my friend called and told me that the phone call I got this morning was a place she applied to looking for a personal reference and could I call them back as soon as possible because she really wants this job.
So I called and a very nice lady helped me out and gave me the voicemail number (which when I saw it, I recognized it and I know I've got it written down somewhere, but I can't for the life of me remember where, of course). Once that was done and I reprogrammed it into my phone, I listened to the voicemail and called the place back and did the personal reference. It took all of five minutes and the whole time I was thinking, "Why would you call people so early in the morning to do this? Not everyone is up and pleasant that early in the morning. Cranky people will not give favorable references. Do you not want to hire people?"
But, I did give my friend a good reference and I got my voicemail working again, so happy ending all around.
And yes I realize how silly it is for someone who doesn't like to make phone calls and doesn't really ever talk on the phone to be so pissy about her voicemail not working. Yeah, that wasn't lost on me.
