100% y2k-compliant, 93.82% bitch

i remember when we first moved here and i dialed 411 one day, to get a number. well nothing happened. it said "your call cannot be connected." [pause] "0278" or some crap where they number the recordings or some shit. my friend later told me that you have to dial a 1 first, so the # is actually 1-411. NOW WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T THE RECORDING SAY THAT? [note: in addition, why aren't the woodruff schools listed in the spartanburg county school listings? (different phone company that's why. gte & prtc are separate companies and decided not to list some of each other's numbers -- BASTARDS!) but that's another subject...] back to 411 and why the recording is SO LAME!

i called the phone company to see. i had to call asheville and was on hold for over ½ hour before i hung up. why are people so stupid? how do they keep their jobs? and why is stupid shit allowed to penetrate society and perpetuate itself making an eternity of misery for intelligent people like myself?



i was in greenville on monday and desperately needed to contact the wdrf post office. i called information, which is now just 411 (see?) and they gave me a number...232-something. i called and got ace hardware. i said i needed the post office, and he said he could transfer me, which he did, only this wasn't the woodruff post office, it was a greenville post office. so i called back, the operator couldn't help me so she gave me to the supervisor WHO TOLD ME I NEEDED THE "OTHER" WOODRUFF OPERATOR. i shit you not. she said to call information back, and just tell the operator that i need the "other woodruff operator." i told her that 411 states that it can help you find a number ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY, and i thought woodruff was a pretty damn small city for the united states to split off into regions covered by other operators, but she insisted. the two operators i called after that told me they HAD NO IDEA WHO THE "OTHER WOODRUFF OPERATOR" WAS and that they HAD NEVER HEARD OF THAT BEFORE. i thought maybe the wdrf po simply doesn't list their number, much like the DMV (don't get me started on them), although i KNOW i've seen people there answer the phone when i've been there in line. so anyway, i came home and looked up the number. 476-2221 DUH how the fuck hard was that?

now that i have the number, should i call back from work tomorrow and totally fuck with somebody until they find the same number and/or then proceed to bitch them out completely?

what would you do?

posted by y2kira @ 7:23 PM