Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Where have you been all my life?!?!

Whew, you thought I fell off the face of the earth didn't you?! I had you going for a minute too but alas, here I am. It was a great summer even though we never got the nice warm weather like normal. I bet we didn't even get close to 100 this summer and we usually get at least a couple days pretty close or at least upper 90's. However the fall is here and I love the fall. The jeans and sweatshirt weather, the crisp air, the colored leaves, everything, just love it!

Work is going well, it's been about 3.5 months since I've been there and I like it. Before I go in I still get that ugh, work feeling. You know, that feeling like I would just love to stay at home today but once I get to work I usually feel pretty good and get into the swing of things. I don't have too heavy of a work load though so it's boring some days but I like it. I learn something pretty much every day so that makes it enjoyable.

Well my current issues I'm having is with my dang cell phone. I don't have a phone line, like the 'old fashioned' home phone, I have my cell phone and that's it. So it's not like I can take it lightly when it doesn't work or is acting up. We had AT&T (I shouldn't name names, but I'm gonna!) and it was good while I was in school. And we never were in roam. But I could sit on my couch and the phone would cut in and out and I had to stand by my window if I was on an important phone call. With Verizon (who I've had for about a week now) I can sit anywhere or be anywhere and it works great, BUT when I go back home it's in 'extended network' and I'm worried I'm being charged roaming fees. I called the main customer service phone number and got a woman who couldn't even tell me if I was going to be charged roaming or not. You're told one thing when you're at the dealer and then when you get the bill it's another. I'm trying to nip the roam charges in the bud before we get the first phone bill.

Now the other thing, I'm worried that if we have to drop the contract, we are out the set up fee, about $110 for the four phones and we will be charged for every minute and text we sent on all four of those phones! That's going to over $200 dollars! How are you suppose to know if the program works or not if you don't use the phone but if you do use the phone and it doesn't work, you're charged for every single thing you did on that phone!? Does that make any sense at all b/c I don't think it does. So right now I'm worried it won't work and we'll have to be just out over $200.00 or if we do like it and stick with it then here comes the first bill and it's like $400 for all the roaming fees!

I feel like it shouldn't be a guess if I'll be charged in roam or not. Don't you think that should be something like a yes or no answer? I can see they can't tell me if I'll get reception or be able to talk when I'm in one place or another, I get that- towers are different- but you can't tell me if I'm going to be billed for something? It's just extremely frustrating b/c we need phones and it's like not one single company has worked great for us and been able either 1) allow us to keep our numbers or 2) worked in all the areas we are. My fingers are crossed that these phones will work w/ no roaming fees! We'll find out tomorrow when I call the Verizon dealer!