I don’t ask for much… I have my little cubicle, in it is my little radio. I keep the volume quite low, not bothering anyone… just some quiet tunes to help pass the day.
Oh no I might miss an important e-mail while I take a piss… Fucking Batman utility belt BORG motherfucker… I just have to cart around this stupid electronic leash to make me even more a slave to my fucking E-mail… wanker!
I hope that 20 years from now it is conclusively proven that carrying a blackberry causes ones dick to fall off… or if your a self important ass ferret Woman middle-manger… then for you to grow a dick only to have that fall off.
Now I shall return to my work… in silence… thanks to all of the interference spewing jackasses I’m surrounded by.
I don’t have a Blackberry now, but did have one at an earlier job (and then later a Treo 650 with software that was similar to Blackberry). I rode the train for an hour to and from work, and it was really useful to be able to read and respond to email while on the train. And frankly, it’s a lot less disturbing for me to tap out a reply to an email message on the device than to have a cell phone conversation on the train.
And I think that RIM (manufacturer of the Blackberry) uses the pager network instead of the cell phone network, and as a result, service coverage for the Blackberry is much better than for cell phones.
But your rant is really about people who have the audible indicator that they’ve received a message and are annoying the office with the noise.
All it means is that your radio is a typical “made in Drekistan” piece-of-shit, designed to be cheap to produce, with lots of shiny bits to appeal to the unwashed masses, who wouldn’t recognize a well-designed radio if it was dropped on their head from 20,000 feet.
Him, his radio, the consumer electronics industry, and every idiot who complains about RFI when the problem isn’t the transmitter, it’s the poorly-designed POS that’s their pride and joy.
Useless? It’s not useless. It’s more useful to me than you are. Let’s see, while I’m commuting to and from work I can put out 3 maybe 4 fires all by using my Blackberry device. I doubt you’d a) rest in my hand comfortably, b) fit nicely in my purse or briefcase or c) send and receive email fairly efficiently without me having to initiate a connection to my email server.
The sort of interference being described sounds like the type I’ve experienced with GSM cell phones, so it’s nothing specific to Blackberry devices. And yes, it’s annoying. The recommendation I was given was to move the radio/speakers/desk phone away from the offending GSM device, or to reorient the device.
While I might’ve missed the point of the “BIT-BIT-BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ-BIT-BIT-BIT” the first couple of rounds, that in no way gives any indication of the quality or make of the OP’s radio. He/she could have one of those pricey Bose Acoustic Wave radios, for all you know.
I must be getting old; I thought this thread was going to be about rubus fruticosus - I was confused though, as the usual complaint in that case is that kids don’t know what they are.
I was just doing some auditing work at the Blackberry people’s place in Waterloo last week. RIM has their campus kind of nestled between two universities, Waterloo and Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
Last year, for their 20th anniversary, they threw a party for the employees. At this party, the Barenaked Ladies were the opening act.
The main attraction? Aerosmith. A private concert. Just for the employees.
These people deserve to have you buy their product.
