Hot Tips on Phones
I recently left the firm I was working for and took a new position with a new employer at a much higher salary. My business is IT, and I left the comfort and stability of my old job to work for a start up firm which I think will be a big success. They knew they were going to have to pay for quality personnel so they had no problem meeting my demands in terms of salary, benefits and stock options. What I didn’t realize is although they aren’t skimping on compensation, the workplace environment they supply leaves a great deal to be desired.
I am in a position to put up with the miniscule cubical. I am able to live with the absence of natural light (although I feel like a cave troll). I can also do without the cafeteria, water cooler, and coffee maker. What I really miss is my old phone.
You see, my old phone was indeed, not an old phone. It used to be a multi-line handling, LCD displaying, caller ID monster that gave me more options than a new car salesman. My new phone has none of those comforts. There is no transfer or hold button, no screen to display who is calling, no headset and no electronic directory. In short, the only difference between this phone and a Garfield phone you may buy at Spenser’s Gifts is that this phone isn’t shaped like a cartoon cat. My job would be so simpler and my days so more productive but only if we’d a genuine office phone system in place. The on-going system is so poorly automated that only a very tiny percentage of the calls I get are actually meant for me. Likewise, I get several Emails a day asking why I haven’t returned calls in regard to messages I never received.
I guess the old adage that you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone really holds true in this instance.
Since I came here, I have actively lobbied to have the old phone system replaced, but a waste of time. I think I may be the only one here who knows what he’s missing. Oh well…I’m sure I’m not the just one out there who has experienced this. Perhaps you too have mislaid a beloved phone in a career move. I sympathize with you. I’d leave my number so we could commiserate, but you’d probably never reach me anyway.