So my 20th high school class reunion is coming up, and one of my classmates just sent me a link to the school’s alumni page, which has reunion info. Every other class that’s planning a reunion has an e-mail address for information.
Not my class. Oh no. Our esteemed :rolleyes: class president wants us to call him personally for the details (only date and location are given on the page). He has graciously given out his direct and mobile phone numbers.
IN EUROPE.
Yes, the nearly 400 members of our Wisconsin graduating class are supposed to call Mr. Big Shot in EUROPE and incur international charges. He has even neatly “disguised” the fact that they are international numbers by grouping them in US style – XXX-XXX-XXXX rather than XX-XXXX-XXXX. Only the country code gives it away. And I’m guessing that many of my classmates won’t recognize it as an international number, and won’t know to dial 011, which he conveniently forgot to include.
Yeah, there might be a mailing or something coming up, but what a great way to say “Don’t call me” while seeming to be all official. He’s smart enough to know better, but arrogant enough not to care. What a prick.
I did some Googling and found his e-mail address (on his company’s Web page, with his bio and picture, so it ain’t exactly private), which I forwarded to my classmate (I can’t stomach the thought of contacting the guy, and neither can she), which SHE forwarded to the teacher who runs the alumni page, along with the comment that we might not all want to have to call EUROPE to attend the reunion. Surely Mr. B.S. (heh, I like that) can put his minions to work setting up an e-mail address for the class, if he doesn’t want to despoil his precious personal address.
Par for the course for this jackass. Some people never change.
You positive it’s a European number? There’s plenty of country codes which overlap with American area codes. The only difference being not dialling 011. For example, my Hungarian number was 361.316.1298, (or+36.1.316.1298, in Hungarian style) which is a number in Texas if you leave off the 011. Somehow, I really doubt that someone would leave a European number with instructions to call without putting in the 011 prefix or putting in a “+” before the country code.
Are you absolutely certain? Because my bet is that you’re mistaken.
Actually, if you’ve looked up his company’s info, then you probably do know his locataion and then I’m the one who’s mistaken. I just want to be sure. I apologize if my last post sounded snarky.
I wanted to be wrong, but I knew I wouldn’t be. Yup, his company is in Europe (says so explicitly on the page with his info, which says he works in a specific European city), and he did use the plus sign with the country code.
Oh, fuck it. The purpose of those reunions is to see and enjoy the friends from HS.
Maybe provide a bed and a biscuit for someone from out of town that one likes. Not to revisit all that pain and scarring and elitism etc etc etc that was prevalent in those HS days (At least mine).
Quit worrying about that fucker. I imagine you didn’t like him then either.
This was the reason I didn’t run for senior class president after my very successful term as Junior class president.
It’s a lifetime post of planning reunions.
But you know there is a bit of a time difference from the US to Europe. I think you could have fun with that.
The time for my husband’s 10 year high school reunion came and went, with no invitation. The half dozen or so friends from his class with whom he’s still in touch didn’t hear anything about it either. No big deal.
Recently, he ran into an old classmate I’ll call X, who is friends with a classmate I’ll call Y. Back in school, Y was a bit more popular than either X or Mr. sugaree. One night, X was sitting at home when she got a phone call from Y, who asked, “Where are you? Why aren’t you here?”
“Where?”
“Here at the reunion!”
Their class had about 250 people. Less than 100 were at the 10 year reunion, and it turned out that this was because less than 100 were invited. The class president and vice president only invited their friends, the people in the popular crowd whom the prezzes liked.
That’s a good question. I’m coming up on 10 years, and I still haven’t heard a peep out of anyone I went to school with. Of course, I’ve also had a falling out with one of my old pals, and so maybe I’ve been relegated to the “more uncool now than in high school” group.
I was vice president of the senior class, and my pres was a nice girl (of course you’re thinking, of course you think she’s nice, she was in your clique–no, not really. I hung out with all sorts of people).
We had to run the reunion, and anyone and everyone who could be reached was invited. We had a pretty big turnout.
That’s pretty bad when that sort of thinking extends beyond high school.
My sister was in charge of her HS 10-year reunion - and she tried. The school would not help at all in locating people (they refused to even say “Call amarinth’s sister” if someone happened to call up asking about the reunion.) At the end of HS, she tried to get contact information from everyone, but of course, not everyone would give it to her, so she had a partial list of names and former addresses. She sent out postcards from that list more than once. She organized a team of people to search on the nationwide phone directories for last names and cold call the people who might be you. (If your name was unusual, they’d call - if your name was more common, but one of two or three in the area, they’d call. If your name was John Smith, and one of a hundred in the area - probably not. They got more than a few doing that.) She kept a running list of who they’d found and who they hadn’t found that was accessible to everyone, and constantly sent out email saying “If you see or hear of anyone who’s on the ‘not found’ list, send me their information or have them contact me.”
After she sent out the invitations, she got even more names (“Jeff said he didn’t get an invitation, why not?” The answer was that no one had sent her Jeff’s contact info, nor had Jeff written to her, and his name was right there on the ‘not found’ list…) and kept sending out more invites. Still, there were more than a few people she just couldn’t find.
If you’ve cut off all ties to people from high school, you might not get invited to the reunion, not necessarily out of spite or pettiness, but out of just the difficulty of finding you.
Nope, I just made sure that all over the internet my E-mail is listed, and my local white pages should also have a listing in a few months(my old phone number is listed but not my new one). It could just be all an innocent oversight or that they haven’t yet begun to set something up.
Whatever. I’m not particularly interested in going anyways.
My 20 year reunion should be coming up … only we’ve never had a 10 year reunion. The class leaders are nowhere to be found. Classmates say they’ve never heard anything about a reunion, either. Googling my name gets about 200 hits.
Gee…I don’t even remember when I graduated. Oh, 1995. I forgot. So, my ten year reunion would be coming up.
Course, I would be next to impossible to find since I’m nowhere in the phone book and seldom give out my name online. Even if I were invited, I still wouldn’t bother to go because, I just don’t care enough to bother. shrugs
