AT&T is royally pissing me off right now, too, enough that I'm considering switching to Verizon or possibly Credo (non-iphone smartphone, oh noes!).

amyth and I once attended a team-building customer service training that involved Fear Factor-style eating contests (during the SARS epidemic), the trainer suggesting calling customers "ma'am" while you really mean "bitch" as good customer service, holding hands while listening to Clay Aiken singing about god, and the Electric Slide. We typed the whole thing up on lj but I can't remember in whose journal, couldn't find it in mine, and amyth's is gone.

We don't have contract phones, either. I use Net10, and it's simple and pretty cheap for the amount I use either the phone or the text function. I have a slider with a full keyboard, which I like, and while it's not easy to use the web on the phone, I sort of like that.

Last team-bonding thing I was involved in we were throwing eggs at each other, but that worked out pretty okay.

I keep thinking about downgrading my cell service, but I can't decide if I'd rather keep my current number or get a 617 one. And now I realize I could do both via google voice, right? And I am even more paralyzed by indecision.

Not that I want to play any goofy games, but I'd like to know who is on my team and if I have a team leader. You would think that information would be pretty basic in such a corporate environment, but not in my case.

I'm stuck with AT&T for another year and a half, I think. We already have the $30 messaging plan, so that won't be a change for us.

AT&T Wireless subscribers. ATT is doing a bit of a dick move and forcing everyone who starts a new account (or decides to change their messaging plan) to have an unlimited messaging plan which is $20 for individuals, $30 a month for family plans. They used to have 3 different messaging plan tiers, then they went to 2, now just 1.

If you're not switching anything up, things will stay the same, right?

Hmm, at that differential, a phone would pay for itself pretty quickly, especially if, like me, you're happy to keep it for years. Who do you use for service?

We use Virgin Mobile.

Go team Google Voice! I can't work out what they get out of it, but it's cheap and convenient for me.

Why does my face swell up the morning after a bad night's sleep? Is it tossing and turning, or is it sleep deprivation? After I went back to bed last night, the dreams were all about race-motivated sexual harassment. I have no fucking idea. It was pretty horrible, and I ended up getting out of bed again just to make it stop.

Oh man, Nillybaby! He might be the happiest little dude I've ever seen.

Kate, I've often witnessed similar scenes, without the soundtrack. I've found Loki with his head shoved in the toebox of a size 9 platform sandal, nose peeking out.

Heh, I can totally picture Worthington doing that too. Cats, why the weird foot fetish?

We switched to no contract plans. I hardly every use my phone as a phone, so I have limited minutes, but unlimited text & data for $25/month. The best part about the no contract plans? No taxes, so the $25 is actually $25.

I also have a no-contract plan, with Tracfone, and I've been pretty happy with it. It's a pay-as-you-go service, with no monthly fee. Whenever I'm running low on minutes, I pay around $88 (with taxes) for a 450-minute card, and then since I bought a double-minutes-for-life card a few years back, that turns out to be $88 for 900 minutes. Texts cost .3 minutes both to send and receive. I don't have a smartphone so I don't know anything about what they charge for accessing the internet. I think I paid around $25 for the phone itself.

I didn't wake up until 4:00 this morning!

Which isn't actually much of an improvement since I went to bed later too, but still, it's something.