I didn't even notice there was a problem.....
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I didn't even notice there was a problem.....
Never even noticed it, you people spend/rely too much on your phones:cool:
Thanks Eevo,
Technology has certainly moved on since I was at Telstra in the mid-90s. I can still clearly remember the day when the entire Queensland network was taken down for several hours. No rebooting of switches or nodes, updating of mobile phone channels etc etc etc. It just took a backhoe operator at Mt Gravatt taking out the only fibre between the Gabba Exchange and Sydney.
And we certainly didn't free get mobile data on Sunday :D
Was there an outage :confused:
Mrs hh:angel:
So 3 hours did your life end was it the end of the world come on people get a life :censored:
Why do people let technology rule their life :censored:
Use mine for work only,without it i wouldn't have a business.Quote:
Originally Posted by Redback
FWIW,it is off after hours.:D
We use pagers after hours as we have to provide a 24 service.
Really and has you business folded because of 3 hours of silence i bet not ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by scarry
Yes you might have missed a call or email or text or 3 but honestly this mobile crap is making too many too dependant on excuses because of it :cool:
In the the good old days many a person and business survived easily with out mobile bloody phones :angel:
You will survive as well as your business dont allow your self to be so dependant on something that isnt so dependable:cool:
How it impacts people really depends what they do for a crust Chris.
I totally agree with your view for many people > they blow the whole thing out of proportion.
However for many others no mobile phone for 3 hours has the same impact on their working day that sitting on the side of the road with a broken truck and the boss not paying you an hourly rate might have on yours...;)
Is the world going to end.. or course not, is it a massive pain in the arse if your job heavily relies on mobile connectivity, bloody oath it is.
As I said on the previous page, mine was out for 2 1/2 hours and I really quite enjoyed the peace and quiet.
But as a result, 2 conference calls I needed to be at had to be rescheduled. Meaning that my mobile phone not working, caused about 25 other people, including 2 clients to have to rearrange their days.
End of the world?.. Nope..... Pain in the backside when it was totally avoidable - definitely.
Mate,you are way behind the times.:oQuote:
Originally Posted by rangieman
Who really cares what happened in the good old days,have you realised times have changed?Often not for the better,but not much can be done about that.
I actually hate the mobile,at times it is a PITA.As said,it is off after hours.
Most people have them on all the time.
But i will say it again,without it,myself,and anyone else in our industry wouldn't have a business.
That is just the way it is today.:(:D
This.Quote:
Originally Posted by scarry
As Paul said, in commercial refrigeration you mostly have to get there NOW.
If you don't answer the phone, they get someone else who will get there within the next 1/2-1hr to save their stock, keep the beer cold or in critical cases, save pathology or pharmacy stuff.
And in 'the good old days' dear old dad had VHF two way radios in every vehicle from about 1969 on so the office could pass on those same jobs for the very same reasons.
At least we had the excuse we were away from the vehicle when we didn't answer when I started working for him in 1983.
When I started working for myself as a 25yo in '91 my first purchase was an NEC in car phone so I didn't have to pay a secretary to radio me with jobs, the customers could ring directly.
Within two years it was a Motorola Micro t-a-c flip phone, and we've been beholden to the damned things ever since. :(