{"id":9434,"date":"2009-02-17T11:48:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9434"},"modified":"2009-02-17T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"i-really-dislike-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9434","title":{"rendered":"I Really Dislike Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the guys in the office is going to be working from home a bit over the next while and called in today asking that his desk phone be forwarded to his mobile.\u00a0 Fair enough.\u00a0 Reception asked me to do it as I walked in today.\u00a0 I sat down and tried it.\u00a0 A recurring thought came to mind: Why are all desk phones that I see based on software that was obviously written by someone disconnected from humanity and in the 1950\u2019s with punch cards in mind?\u00a0 In the end I gave up.\u00a0 Someone else had a go and gave up too.\u00a0 We had to call in a phone support engineer to get the damn thing to do a simple call forward operation.\u00a0 After playing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twister_(game)\" target=\"_blank\">Twister<\/a> with the phone\u2019s keypad and hitting combinations that would make Mortal Kombat look simple the issue was finally sorted out. <\/p>\n<p>Isn\u2019t it about time that phones joined us in the 21st century?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the guys in the office is going to be working from home a bit over the next while and called in today asking that his desk phone be forwarded to his mobile.\u00a0 Fair enough.\u00a0 Reception asked me to do it as I walked in today.\u00a0 I sat down and tried it.\u00a0 A recurring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9434\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Really Dislike Phones&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.5 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One of the guys in the office is going to be working from home a bit over the next while and called in today asking that his desk phone be forwarded to his mobile. 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