What made you smile recently (2025)?

Nokia as well, the brick, in 95 or 96.
I do remember as I was supposed to go work on a project in India.
Terminated the lease on the place I was living & my phone (land line) as well.
Then everything got postponed and I had to find another place to live & pay quite a lot for a new land line connection. So I bought a cell phone instead
 
TastyReuben said:
I still do. One week out of three. What’s just as bad, even when I’m not officially on call, I still have to work nights and weekends most days for one reason or another.
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When I was on call for CBRE it was a different matter. If you answered the phone you were obligated to get in the service van. I wouldn't answer the phone. I'd wait 5 minutes then redirect the work order on my iPad and put down 1 hour of WO mgmt. time. Everybody happy.
 
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I carried a pager right up until…2007. Then I had a work-supplied BlackBerry, then a work-supplied flip phone, then we were acquired by the company I work for now, and it was, “Yeah, we’re not paying for that. You’re required to have a phone, you have to pay for it, and we’ll call it any time we like!”
 
TastyReuben said:
I carried a pager right up until…2007. Then I had a work-supplied BlackBerry, then a work-supplied flip phone, then we were acquired by the company I work for now, and it was, “Yeah, we’re not paying for that. You’re required to have a phone, you have to pay for it, and we’ll call it any time we like!”
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Used to be an app where you could "insert" text messages. Worked well in the wee hours...
 
Barriehie said:
When I was on call for CBRE it was a different matter. If you answered the phone you were obligated to get in the service van. I wouldn't answer the phone. I'd wait 5 minutes then redirect the work order on my iPad and put down 1 hour of WO mgmt. time. Everybody happy.
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All our business cards had a/h numbers.
It was not unusual for me to go and fix a belt at 9 o'clock at night.
Then home and shower again.

Russ
 
rascal said:
All our business cards had a/h numbers.
It was not unusual for me to go and fix a belt at 9 o'clock at night.
Then home and shower again.

Russ
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I was on a retail account so the doors shut at 9 and didn't open until 11 the next morning. Weekends were like I described above. The mines were a different story. They never shut down and were open ended. Fix it right quick and we'll worry about the money later.
 
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