Life as I know is over

Ok this stinks.
with my job I am on call one week out of 4. I get "calls" all hours of the day while on call. So they need to get in touch with me. up until about a year and half ago the company gave me a cell phone. They then changed policy and said they will only pay 25 bucks a month to a cell phone, there thinking was you will use your cell phone mostly for personal use and they shouldnt have to pay for that.
Well "The Man" was not getting away with that with me.
I dont need nor want a cell phone for personal use. Its one more way the "man" keeps you down.

So my co. said they would give me a pager. fine with me.
So for the last year or so I have not had a cell phone and all was right with the world.
I still have yet to hear a valid argument on why you must have a cell phone.

well my smart co. did an audit and found out they are paying about 120 bucks a month for my pager....OOOPPSSS
needless to say they quickly came up with a solution. get a cell phone and we will reinburse you for it. No dont go get the 1000 minutes blackberry enabled one, just get the cheap one be resonable etc.

So today I got the evil thing. My voice mail is "you have reached my cell phone, I dont answer the cell phone and I dont respond to voice mail, if you need me page me thru "XXXX" (our co's ticket generator) .

Basically means if there is a ticket I need to work, our ticket generator will page me and I will respond as I normally do.
You want to talk to me call my home phone or my desk phone.
I wont have the evil GW empire pumping there microscopic zombie drugs into my ear!

and cell phone co's do whatever they can to get every nickle out of you. What a scam. But if you know how to read you can keep above water. Dont let the man get you!

ok carry on