January 25th, 2011

I spent most of my morning on the phone making a ton of phone calls I have been putting off for weeks.  Technically the first one I actually talked someone through their online support chat box thingy.  That was amusing in its own right though.

The person was basically copy and pasting everything they typed to me.  I even called them out and had asked them if they were copy and pasting everything and they replied "somethings yes", aka yes, yes I am.  I mean is it really hard for someone to type to me?  I wish I had saved the conversation so I could have just 'copy and pasted' it. :P

After that fantastic conversation I went on to a much more interesting and useful one about some 401k business.  I didn't quiet understand how it all works so I had to call and get somethings clarified and cleared up for me about it.  I think I understand what is going on with it but I have to decide where I want to move it or if I want to at all.  No use having a 401k that isn't making money, right?

Then my last phone conversation I had was stupid and annoying.  I was just trying to refill my birth control but noooo that's can't be simple.  I called the place I usually go to and they reply "Oh we don't have that kind anymore you need to go somewhere else".  Fantastic.

So I call another location and because I wanted to do a switch on what kind I was getting the person had to talk to someone else and put me on hold.  Long story short me getting put on hold some how after so long sent me to their voice mail and hung up on me.  Super Fantastic.

I call back, it happens again.  I call back a third time and I'm pretty much fed up with the situation and get put on hold once more. I laid in bed thinking to myself "oh please don't let me go to that voice mail machine one more time..." To my delight and surprise the guy came back and told me it was all good and I could make my order for the birth control.  Wonderful-tastic.

Thus, my morning of making phone calls ended.  I really hate phone calls.  Sometimes I prefer when I can do an online chat but sometimes even those can be as bad as a phone call.  At least I didn't have to call about my router again!  As much as I enjoy calling India about my router and talking to nice and not so nice Indian ladies, I think I will keep my router working.