I’ve written in the past about how I love technology but the feeling isn’t mutual.
Update: Nothing has changed beyond it potentially getting worse.
I’m continuing to experience more dislike for my new phone (with what’s allegedly the most advanced Android OS available but which is bizarrely glitchy and rough and unintuitive compared to previous versions), while our printer has of late decided it will print some stuff just fine but will no longer print PDFs (different files from different sources as sent to it from different machines including different OS platforms), and while my phone carrier continues to do an ever-deepening dive on why it is that for what’s getting into years now, I get some text messages repeated to me around the same time every day. Not all texts from everyone, but certain ones from a small group of people, again and again, each around its own unique time of day, for weeks or months at a time. Those stop only to be replaced by others.
That, despite my changing texting apps, the SIM card, and even the handset itself.
They just keep on coming.
And to answer what you’re likely asking yourself, yes, it’s as maddening as you think it would be.
The phone carrier–Bell, one of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies–has escalated the issue to higher and higher levels of tech support a number of times, because of course this isn’t your run-of-the-mill “How do I make the Facebook go?”-type question they likely deal with all the time.
How far has it gone? Well, try this on for size: Today I got another call from that high-level tech support asking if it’s still happening and saying that they’re now going to get Nokia on the phone for a group discussion with me about what’s going on. Nokia is the Finnish telecommunications giant who evidently manufactured the relay tower that serves my phone. Bell alone can’t crack this one, so sometime in the very near future I’m going to be on a group call with high-level tech support from two countries over what the hell’s happening that’s making this relentless series of text repeats keep rolling.
So for anyone who still thinks my saying technology hates me is overstating it, I say again: Reality defies you.