codfanglers
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Technology and I don't get along. I am still in my 30's but I might as well be in my 80's because I just can't keep up with the times. Oddly enough, approx. 20 years ago, it was estimated that technology would make our lives easier and that we would actually work less. How has that been working for us???
I won't even begin venting about the need to keep 50 different passwords, instead I will discuss phone service. I always joke with my wife whenever I am tied up with automated systems for a while and I finally get connected to a direct line to a person. I say excitedly, "Honey, I am getting a real human being!".
I remember travelling a lot in the 1990's and very early 2000's. In order to make hotel arrangements I would get the phone number for the hotel and call. A desk attendant would answer the phone and put me on hold for a minute as they checked for vacancy on certain dates. I traveled to Pittsburgh this weekend and I looked up a hotel online. I had to type in the dates as well as the location to get the hotel. It stated that it was completely booked for the whole week and I just needed one night. I thought to myself "let me call them directly and speak to a person just to make sure" (I know, I am still very naive). Their 1-800 numbers were all over the website but I had to look further to find the NUMBER of the ACTUAL HOTEL. I called the number and a desk clerk answered. I knidly asked about vancancies and immediately she said "Let me connect you to the reservations line" (which was probavbly overseas).
How did things ever get this bad? Do things have to be with way now? I guess as long as I am in the industrialized world this is what I have to deal with,.
I won't even begin venting about the need to keep 50 different passwords, instead I will discuss phone service. I always joke with my wife whenever I am tied up with automated systems for a while and I finally get connected to a direct line to a person. I say excitedly, "Honey, I am getting a real human being!".
I remember travelling a lot in the 1990's and very early 2000's. In order to make hotel arrangements I would get the phone number for the hotel and call. A desk attendant would answer the phone and put me on hold for a minute as they checked for vacancy on certain dates. I traveled to Pittsburgh this weekend and I looked up a hotel online. I had to type in the dates as well as the location to get the hotel. It stated that it was completely booked for the whole week and I just needed one night. I thought to myself "let me call them directly and speak to a person just to make sure" (I know, I am still very naive). Their 1-800 numbers were all over the website but I had to look further to find the NUMBER of the ACTUAL HOTEL. I called the number and a desk clerk answered. I knidly asked about vancancies and immediately she said "Let me connect you to the reservations line" (which was probavbly overseas).
How did things ever get this bad? Do things have to be with way now? I guess as long as I am in the industrialized world this is what I have to deal with,.