CenturyLink is my current phone company. I haven't had any problems with them, but my unlimited-long-distance-flat-fee just went up to $77/month, and that feels like an awful lot to pay for seven-eight phone calls a week to my sister and my BFF.
I know, world in peril and we have to work together. This is my last office romance, I'll tell you that.
Buffy ,'End of Days'
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Zenkitty - Mar 13, 2015 4:03:22 pm PDT #22182 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Maria - Mar 13, 2015 4:04:58 pm PDT #22183 of 30000
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
I'd be wary about only having a cell phone if you work from home
That's me. My work cell is my only number for work; no landline. My personal cell will always stay separate. It was a pain in the ass to regain financial responsibility after I left my first job, and I lost my awesome grandfathered plan at the time.
Connie Neil - Mar 13, 2015 4:14:40 pm PDT #22184 of 30000
brillig
I got rid of the landline last year, but not many people actually call me. I do a lot more communication with locals via Facebook, actually.
Zenkitty - Mar 13, 2015 4:15:42 pm PDT #22185 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I'd be wary about only having a cell phone if you work from home
Calls to my work number already get routed to my home number anyway, because the softphone on the laptop never works right.
Burrell - Mar 13, 2015 4:21:07 pm PDT #22186 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Today is a perfect example of why I can't cancel it: old childhood friend -- her father and my father were BF back when they were in middle school -- called me just to say hi and catch up. But I also have a better understanding of why he wants to switch it over to VoIP eventually.
Jesse - Mar 13, 2015 4:24:23 pm PDT #22187 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You guys find the cell phone is clear enough? I feel like they are still enough less-good than a landline that it's noticeable. Of course, at my job, it's usually a conference call with six people on cell phones in other countries, so extra barriers....
Maria - Mar 13, 2015 4:30:49 pm PDT #22188 of 30000
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Burrell, I don't get why you can't cancel it. I wouldn't doubt I'm missing something (see the no good, lousy week I had), but if it was switched to VoIP or Google Talk, you would have still gotten the call. Old childhood friend would have never known the difference.
Jesse, I do. I often use a headset though. I haven't had any issues with my conference calls, but we're all in the U.S. GM was starting a program just as I was leaving to get those that work from home or in the field exclusively on cell phones. It's now spread to those who work in the Ren Cen.
Jessica - Mar 13, 2015 4:34:12 pm PDT #22189 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
We used to have a landline so DH could record interviews, but these days he does everything via cell. The call quality has really improved tremendously.
Zenkitty - Mar 13, 2015 4:41:15 pm PDT #22190 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Call quality concerns me, too. My (Sprint) cellphone is acceptable, but the sound is still not really good.
Susan W. - Mar 13, 2015 4:43:29 pm PDT #22191 of 30000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
So, Annabel's latest favorite thing is to suspect that in an alternate universe, she and her friends are characters in a TV show. She's got it all worked out who'd be shipped, what their ship names would be (hers are all the friend's name with "abel" tagged on the end), what the fanart might look like--you'd totally have to have the version where everyone was a werewolf, or maybe some were werewolves and some vampires, or they could be demigods--and so on. I made a crack about people waiting for Season 10 of the Annabel Show, to which she replied there's no reason to assume she'd be the central character.
I like her humility...
When I mentioned how hard it was to make a ship name for me and her father--Dylsus? Sudyl?--she said we'd be an established couple so there'd be no need to ship us anyway.