Ranting CAN make a difference!

Just as a goof, I showed a printout of my cell phone rant to my boss, since there's a couple new temps at work who are the ones who inspired the rant, and I figured he'd get a kick out of it. Only I didn't tell him why I wrote it. I just said something like "here's your chuckle for the day."

Sure enough, he comes to me later and says "I read your piece, and the first thing I thought of is those two new girls who sit in the break area with those damn chirping phones," to which I replied, "Why do you think I wrote it?"

So he says something to the extent of "Well, we've had several people complain about that noise, so I'm going to mention at tomorrow's [pre-shift] meeting that everyone needs to use their phones normally, and if they have to use the chirping feature, to take it outside."

Just when life has you on your back with its hands around your throat, you get to kick it in the nuts and get it to say "uncle"...even though you know you'll only bask in the amusement for a short time.

;-)