Joy

I have just been Telstra’d.

A euphemism for being fucked over by our former national telephony carrier and their obscure (to them and us) customer management systems.

They need to start from scratch rather than continue to upgrade their systems (that probably have vestiges of filing cabinets therein).

The only upside to the experience is that the operator that I chatted to was pleasant and very knowledgeable about footy.

He has temporarily patched the issue.

But I know as surely as the sun will rise tomorrow that this issue will repeat on me.

I know this because one question asked was “are you still using your BlackBerry?” in reference to my sixth last phone.

I suggested to him that this was a non sequitur to rival all others.

We both laughed.