Wednesday, October 27, 2004

We’re having some serious technical problems with our cell phones at work. We can’t make or receive any phone calls. Our direct connect feature works (thankfully). Apparently the problem has been building to today’s complete meltdown for several days.

At first people weren’t able to get into their voicemail. Then people were receiving random phone calls from strangers. Then when they were calling people, they were either getting through to random strangers or the call was being dropped after about 25 seconds.

So we called our provider and the technician had a couple of us try to call a number to him there. No go. Then he tried to call the four of us who were congregated in my boss’ office. The weird thing was that our phone would ring, we would answer it, but on the other side was not the provider dude but someone else answering their phone. Most often it was a pizza joint, but she couldn’t hear us when we tried to ask what her phone number was and she’d hang up.

Weirdness.

One poor deputy’s girlfriend has been trying to call him for the past couple of days, but everytime she did some lady answered the phone. Girlfriend called the deputy’s mother to find out the deal and she got some random guy when she called her son. A call to his landline revealed the problem, but the deputy is still in hot water with his girlfriend thinking he’s been stepping out on her. Poor fella.