I’d better arrive at the office Monday to find an e-mail saying “We have approved your new cell phone” — or, better yet, a box with said cell phone sitting on my desk — or there will be hell to pay.
The current device works between 1 second at several hours at a time, without shutting the phone off (or rebooting itself), the time being directly infuenced (negatively) by my actually doing anything with it. This has led to multiple instances of hilarity as people have called me, I’ve hit the button to pick up the call, and gotten the cheerful “Good-bye” picture and tone.
Grrr.
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*sigh*
No new news. Pursuing …
And … denied.
Rats.
And, I’m informed, I can’t buy an 8300 myself and get the e-mail service to it activated from the corporate servers (even if it’s a corporate phone account, or a corporate expensed phone).
Unless, of course, I was a VP or something. Then, of course, the rules get appropriately bent.
*sigh*
So my alternative at the moment seems to be to get the 8700 and lose my cell phone camera capability (but gain a phone that actually works most of the time). Which sucketh mightily.
Pondering.
So Margie says, “Have you talked to the Boss Man?”
“No,” I say, because I don’t want to be an asshole about it, and, honestly, I realize I’m bucking standards, and I’m Lawful Nice, so I don’t want to go pulling strings, especially since I’m not sure what the Boss Man would say.
So not an hour later I’m on the phone with the Boss Man regarding something completely different, and he’s going on about how he’s now joined the Cult. I ask him casually what model he got, did he get the 8700 that the telcomm folks are pushing, and he indicated, no, he’s got an 8330 ’cause he’s on Verizon.
Except that’s a Curve, and that’s a Forbidden Model.
Now, the Boss Man is, in fact, a VP. But I did some minor “Oh, those whacky telcomm guys, they’re trying to stick me with this other model” whining, and he says, “Well, tell them to give you what you want.”
Well.
Now I need to figure out how to do that without sounding like an asshole. Because not only do I sympathize with those folks (having been tech support in my time, and quite fond of standards), but I also know that it simply never pays to torque off the support groups — IT, Accounting, Payroll, HR, Office Management — because, sooner or later, it will in fact bite you in the butt.
So … pondering.
Offered up to the local telcomm lady the above dialog (toned down a bit), and she passed it up to her supervisor, with no result, based on policy from her boss.
So I’ve approached him directly on it, promising to be good and so forth, but noting that, while I’m not a VP, I do have a VP suggesting I should be able to get the same model he has.
The suspense mounts …
Little does Our Hero know that the phone he seeks contains the nefarious Mind Control device!
Will Dave get his phone?
Can he avoid being brainwashed?
Tune in tomorrow! Same Bat-time, same Bat-blog!
And what about Naomi?!
Glee!
The manager in charge of such stuff (basically a peer manager of mine) has given the nod, conditional on:
1. I let them know how the model works. (Does it function well? Is it sturdy? Any gotchas they should know about?)
2. I don’t flaunt it around (i.e., don’t let them be bombarded for requests for that “cool phone like Dave has”)
3. I don’t bombard them with support questions for my non-standard phone (to which I asked him how many support calls I’d made for my Treo?)
So … woot!
Should be in Monday.
Pretty website: http://www.blackberrycurve.com/