Today I arrived at work, started my day as usual & at approximately 9:20 am we lost our phones and computers mid call, mid work. NO phones, NO internet out of the office although we did have about 7 clients manage to get a call through to our office. I don't know how and neither did they. The basic rumor as I have heard it is that someone somewhere cut one of Telus' fibre optic lines. I have not been able to confirm it on any newscast anywhere and I have watched at least 4 different ones now hoping for clarification on what happened. Even now that the phone and internet lines are up, even Telus themselves aren't reporting in on their own newspage.
Other rumors I have heard:
1) All of Alberta & BC are out
2) Only Cold Lake is out
3) Cold Lake and part of Bonnyville are out
4) From Cold Lake to Lloydminster is out
5) Its a virus in the Telus system
6) Terrorists
7) The west coast finally fell into the ocean (this one I tried to start, as my coworkers know I always use to explain any unexplained occurance).
I dislike when people run around saying things they heard like they are true.
Whenever someone says something of the sort to me, I always ask where did they hear it from? And when I repeat something I am not sure of as the source is unconfirmed, I try to always include that what I heard was a rumor and I don't know how true it is. If I do have a confirmed source I will include that in my statement. I used to find rumors kind of amusing, knowing that 99% of it is just that a rumor, but now they annoy me.
A lot of things that used to amuse me now annoy me. Like the Simpsons, King of the Hill & laundry. And things that used to annoy me, I now find amusing, like the wind, rain & bees.
Funny how maturity changes you, if that is what is changing me....
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I admire people who are comfortable saying "I don't know." It's also a huge pet peeve of J's when people say they know something just for the sake of sounding knowledgeable when really they don't know shit. As far as he's concerned, sometimes the most intelligent thing you can say is "I don't know." I agree.
With the whole pregnancy/baby thing it's amazing how much "information" is attributed to the omnipresent 'They' (THEY say...). Most of it's a bunch of hogwash.
That was me
-Chair
(damn post anonymous thing)
This is Jenn. You used to find laundry amusing? Good thing it's moved to the 'annoying' list where it belongs.
That was back when I used to enjoy grocery shopping too.
Rumors suck. More or less when they are about you. Or your friend. If you know that the rumor is not true you want to just scream at people to stop.
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