Never ever
before, during almost six years of blogging, hasn’t my temptation to commit my
thoughts to the blog had to be suppressed by auto-censorship. No matter how
preposterously it sounds, self-imposed constraints are the price to pay to stay
in the charmed circle. The heading of his post could have contained idioms such
as “to throw in the towel”, “put oneself out of misery”. Some of you are able
to read between the lines, however haphazard visitors are quite likely to be
kept guessing and may it stay so.
It is
Scatts who excels at writing rants over crappy customer service, breaking down
brand new cars or defective electronic devices. He has a gift of depicting his
tribulations in amusing and quaint way. I do not wish to take away the primacy
in grumbling he undoubtedly deserves. I need to get off my chest how irritating
Szajsung Galaksi Srent might be.
From the
word go… I actually don’t need a company mobile phone. Back at the Employer’s I
didn’t have one and held dear being deprived of such perk. Many times I had to
use my private phone to handle work-related stuff and my private number was
spread around the company, but I always had the right (hardly ever exercised)
not to pick up the phone when I was off work. At the New Factory everyone can
theoretically expect to reach me at any time and it’s a nuisance.
I actually
should be contented. The limit for private calls and text messages and 2GB data
transfer package could easily allow me to give up on the private phone
(something I won’t do since private stuff and work need to be separated) and
actually the opportunity to check something online, such as timetable or tram
route, is immensely useful. I also appreciate built-in GPS which consumes
little data transfer. It all comes in handy and is convenient, but…
1/ GPS can
locate you well, but before the phone finds your location, it needs to spend
between two and five minutes searching, not very practical when you’re short of
time.
2/ Despite
running on 4G/LTE Internet connection, pages in the web browser load more
slowly than with my shitty 3G Cyfrowy Polsat modem plugged to my laptop.
3/ The cell
phone switches between “silent”, “vibration” and “sound” modes at its own
discretion. Consequently either I do not know the phone is ringing or the ringtone,
resembling flushing a toilet (called ‘waterfall’), resounds at least
appropriate moments.
4/ Whenever
I shake the phone (and screen is unlocked), it asks me to set up the starting
display. It is quite bothersome and if I put the handset to the pocket or lay
it somewhere, I need to do it gently, otherwise the request pops up.
5/ I have
absolutely no idea why it randomly chooses what to display after unlocking or
after entering the menu.
6/ The
prediction mode does more harm than good in assisting writing. I eventually
turned it off, since after the phone guessed a word, making the handset change
its mind required too much effort.
7/ Due to
restrictions, I haven’t downloaded any applications, so memory and operating
system of the phone are nearly empty and despite this the phone tends to think
very slowly and sometimes simply crashes and I need to wait a few minutes
before the device comes back to life.
Besides,
it’s a quite fancy device. Everyone in the office has the same model of
Szajsung and almost everyone whines about its ample shortcomings. There is a
rule that you should not look gift horse in a mouth, therefore maybe the rant
is out of place. I don’t wish to blame the corporation which has equipped its
staff in such devices, as they’ve done it in good faith and it was probably the
best model they’ve negotiated with the telecom operator at reasonable price.
It’s rather about the producer, opinions on whose products vary considerably,
but the term “Szajsung” repeats disturbingly often.
The other
story is that myself I can do nothing about faults of the phone, because it is
not my property. I can of course report defects to the sourcing department,
setting a huge bureaucratic machine in motion and embarking on more trouble
than it’s worth. One workmate’s Szajsung totally broke down and he went through
veritable hell to have it repaired… Shit happens, but the future seems bright
anyway ;-)
For the
record – today temperature topped over +19C, one could bask in the rays of
autumnal sun in the afternoon. Although the weather is to break soon, October
2014 stands a chance of going down as one of the warmest in history of
measurements. Until yesterday, average temperature was +12.7C. It eventually
will be lower, but so far it beats October 2000 when temperature over the whole
month averaged out +11.6C, but falls short of October 1907, the warmest since
records began, when average temperature stood at +12.9C. May the warmth stay
with us long!
2 comments:
"...I can do nothing about faults of the phone, because it is not my property."
Well, I suppose being the new kid in the office, the IT department might not be so happy to learn that you rooted the phone to get rid of all the 'advanced' crap that Samsung inflicts on consumers, and installed a clean version of Android instead. Unless of course you learn that the IT guys hated them too and already did the same thing...heh heh.
Still trying to figure out the first paragraph. I guess I don't read regularly enough.
DC, I would not dare to tamper with the phone's software...
If you don't figure out, I've disguised the message well ;-)
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