Thursday 27 March 2008

Select Option 111 to get back in the virtual world

I felt I had to post this otherwise it would have been a whole month without one.

I seem to have spent the last month in single handed combat with various large corporations after my office phone and broadband were mistakenly disconnected. I have been trapped in a nightmare world of 8-level phone menus and telling the same story over and over again.

It is behind me now, thankfully. But reflecting on it I wonder whether there were times when I was actually addicted to the fight. I definitely got lots of energy, well rage, out of it and of course have hours of funny stories to relate. But I know that there were times when I went into battle knowing that the person on the other end of the phone was as helpless as I felt. I even tried to recruit them into my battle - although strangely that never worked!

All that energy - and to what end? What else could I have achieved with that level of commitment?

Time to redirect it, I think.