My mobile phone…
Mobile phones are about as personal an item as it gets. Right up there with my knickers and vibrator, to be honest.
I have, therefore, a major issue with people using my phone, fiddling with it and I have a particular issue with people using my phone to contact the other people in my household. I have stuff on my phone. My Artist and I are very respectful of eachother’s phones. It’s a privacy thing.
Yesterday, a colleague of mine, found he could only reach my voicemail so called My Artist’s phone to reach me. I was nowhere near my artist. I was enraged and my colleague could not understand it.
Surely I cannot be the only person that feels like this? My mobile is the way to reach me. I don’t use landlines and my cell number is available for all the world, really. But I can choose who I do and do not want to speak to. I can let people leave a message. I can choose not to answer if I am doing something that is more important than a call.
When people start stalking me with other numbers… I hate that. It actually tips me right over the edge.
I told my colleague this morning, that he had no clue where I was or what I was doing. I told him I could have been having a quick shag with someone else and there he is trying to reach me for business purposes through my boyfriend. Uncool. He still doesn’t understand.
Connectivity
A while ago I bought iBurst for all of my employees, believing it was the answer to their need to be home at a reasonable time and work from Vida if they wish. My iBurst works fine from home, not so the other people. Amandla tells me she has to hold the modem in the air to get signal in Parkhurst and Jack was pissed off because he can’t work from the airport. So today, I got MTN 3G modems etc for some people and passed the iBurst along to other new guys that can use it.
I am currently online with 3G modem. 3G is better. It is faster, cheaper (scary huh?) and much better range. I loved my iBurst. It has let me work from the hair salon, school sportsdays etc… But this is a lot more slick.
Plus, no dial up bullshit… I didn’t get a 3G card which was a mistake. It’s a usb modem. Looks very cool, like a little black pod, but a bit clumsy cos it needs a cable. Anyway, I will live with it, or trade it in. Dunno yet.
Best of all, you just plug it in and it installs everything. No hassles, no codes, no server rubbish. It just does it all.
Am sure Vodacom offering is the same. I just have issues with using them because Telskum is such a big shareholder. I won’t give that beast money. We all have mobile phones at home and work (the work ones the company pays for) and I am happy for the kids to be on Virgin and I keep MTN.
Anyway, enough of this.
If you don’t have a 3G modem – really it’s worthwhile.
