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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
My business partner bought one of the first cell phones, the Motorola brick. It was crazy expensive and calls were 25 cents per minute. He had to have it.
He moved to smart phones as soon as they were available.
I hate all the political text messages, and I just delete and report as junk all of them. I have 4 email accounts, and my phone gets them all. Still, I prefer to use my computer and Outlook to read and send email. It is all synced to all my accounts as well. It is handy to build a new contact in Outlook, put it a folder that it should be in, and it just appears on my phone. Same for appointments.
Like most of the people on this board, I lived most of my life without a cell phone. It is now my second brain. I can't imaging going back to life without it.
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It's funny, I'm a "techie" but I never had a pager and held out on cell phones as long as possible. Now I have a cell phone, but keep it years before upgrading. It's weird because I feel like I'm the kind of person that would want/have to have the latest and greatest.
Yep, hate the political crap. I don't get much, but trash any that I do get.
Yep, didn't have it for a long time, but wouldn't want to be without it now. Hell, I have myself in my phone, and have all of my addresses (work and home) for the past 20-30 years (which is several). Having all of that helps with filling out forms sometimes.
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Originally Posted by KC911
If Joe will get off of that soapbox .... then I'll step up on it  .
Didn't get called a lot, but when needed, I was needed .... during my corporate gigs I carried a pager & started with a bag phone, then cell phones, and it was 24x7x364 (Thank You Jesus  ) .... a necessary evil ... no mas. I check my phone more regularly now.... but it's rarely on me.
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I've had some jobs where we had "follow the sun" teams so I didn't have to be on call. I've had some jobs where I was on call (often in rotation with someone else, so for 1-4 weeks at a time with the option of being called at any time). Fortunately in my gig for the past several years, I'm not really on call. If there's a problem that I'm particularly well suited to solve, I could get a call as an escalation, but, fortunately, that's rare. I had a job once where the on call was so active that my group complained. We asked either for an "on call pay" when we were on call or the ability to stay home when we were on call. I was shocked when they approved both things. In that case, we got called pretty much every night, often 2-3 times per night. I always figured if "they" saw emails from me at 9pm, midnight, 3am, and 5am, that they shouldn't expect me in the office until I rolled in, usually around lunch.
I'm glad I'm not having to deal with that crap now.