June 09, 2004
Jury Duty: Over / Phone: Dead
Jury Duty was a complete waste of time for most involved. While I (and 49 others) had been selected for a trial yesterday, today it was postponed. As a result, I was held (and the other 49 people too) in the initial selection and thereby not in the master pool to be selected for anything else today. End result: 16+ hours I will never get back (but I *did* make $10).
Not that I am always running at full-steam doing important things, but after spending two absolutley fruitless days at someone else's disposal it can get particularly infuriating. Kind of like a bad job, with less pay. At least I won't have to do it again for 3 years. Unless I move...
Around 3:30pm today I thought my cell provider (T-Mobile) closed up shop... turns out their system has whacked certain SIM cards based on their IMSI numbers... resulting in the inability for the SIM/Phone to make any sort of connection with anything. I'm sure they'll fix it as soon as they can... or something -- I have pics to post, dammit.
Wouldn't it be incredible if they (or anybody else) would have a 'STATUS' web page like so many places used to have? You could go and look and see: "Outage due to blah blah blah... Be back up soon..." and not have to give it a second thought (or navigate stupid voice prompts, or get the run around from customer service people). When the problem is resolved or updated, it would be right on the site... Financially it would seem to be a much better method to update a web utility than having to tie up a call center with people trying to see what's wrong. But what do I know (other than how to complain about EVERYTHING)?
Oh well. Things break. It is the way of the world. Things get fixed too.
Posted by tsg at June 9, 2004 10:55 PM