“I’m going to ring those fcuking tosspots up and tell them exactly where they can shove their poxy 3G card, especially after that bill they just sent.” Muttered by yours truly mid afternoon today after realising that my 3G card wasn’t working, whilst urgently needing to get online to solve a major issue a customer was having. (Why do these issues occur when I’m having lunch and so not near the safety of my office network?)
I unplugged the 3G card, plugged it back in and nothing happened. Nada. Zip. Not even the merest hint of a signal. I may as well have been in sub Saharan Africa for all the connectivity I had.
As I contemplated throwing the quite useless dongle into the half empty rice bowl in front of me. I thought back to the £2,600 bill we’d just received for our mobile phone costs in the past month (for eight handsets is all) and was ready to have a good old fashioned strop.
For some reason I decided that before I did that, I’d just check the dongle again. I took it apart to find that the SIM card wasn’t in there, so no wonder I couldn’t get a signal!
The SIM card was still in my bag, for some unknown reason the last time I used the dongle, I must have taken the SIM card out afterwards and had clearly forgotten that a) I’d done so and b) to put it back properly.
Ordinarily I wouldn’t be so worried, but seeing as I am now rolling out technical solutions out across Europe for that business, I may need to write a process to save any future dongle embarrassment.
Doh! Well I don’t think you need to worry about future embarrassment, I dubt you’ll be forgetting this lesson in a hurry!
*Chortle* ;o)
It was obviously 3G’s fault that you had forgotten, though, don’t you think?
ha ha, yeah, moments like that are pretty funny !
£2,600 for a month?!?! Dear goodness.
Oh, I do love a good old fashioned strop.
Dongles don’t work in my house, either