You’d think at this stage we could at least operate a desk phone

Our regular job had a whole new phone system installed and today was the day of the actual switch. It was several months coming and the change was epic.

At noon things started moving.

By the time Ava and I came back from lunch, the new phones with their spiffy computer screens and flashing lights sat hunkered down on our desks. Even though we’d been in a training class for it, we’re totally intimidated.

It kept making noises–strange beeping and musical tones–especially when I wasn’t even touching it. And randomly paging people. All of a sudden someone would be saying, “Amy? Amy?” and before I could pick up they were gone. Mysterious.

It took my fifteen tries to figure out how to dial out. Add nine? Don’t add nine? Oh yeah, add the area code. Dammit add the nine too. BAH!

You’d think the voice mail system would be fairly simple, but I don’t know what the hell was going on there. The blinking lights merely mocked me.

Tomorrow is Friday and hopefully that means another day of telephone hijinks. Honestly, we could use the laugh.