Technology

The worst part of technology, in my not so humble opinion, is that the more advanced it seems to get, the more attitude it tends to give you. Case in point: just the other day, I was leaving somebody a voicemail when the stupid system cut me off mid-message. Not wanting to sound like an idiot by only leaving half a message, I selected the option to record a new message, to which the system bitch replied “to re-record your voice message, start speaking at the tone” – as if to say, “because you’re an idiot who screwed this up the first time around, I now have to be burdened with recording your message again.”

I’ll admit it: that nasty tone really pissed me off. It’s bad enough that I get attitude from GPS every time I make a wrong turn, but now the voicemail lady is giving me crap for wanting to leave a message that doesn’t end in the middle of a word? And the best part: the voicemail bitch was the one who cut me off in the first place. It’s not like I decided to randomly just stop talking. No, bitch, you cut me off, so not only should you not be giving me attitude about leaving a new message, you should actually be programmed to say something along the lines of “if you’d like to re-record your message because I am a dumb bitch who ran out of patience, then start speaking at the tone.”

Maybe I’m way off here, but shouldn’t technology serve to make our lives easier and not frustrate the piss out of us? And with that, I’ve got some phone calls to make. Wish me luck.