Alltel for my Girls

Oh, Alltel, oh Alltel!

Wherefore art thou Alltel?
Why do you forsake me so?
Why do you mislead me so?

Ok, this one’s for my girls.

Jill- you apparently called me 3 times yesterday and NOT once did my phone ring or show me that I had a missed call.

Rachael- You apparently called me back, after my phone hung up on us, and after I called you back and got your voicemail and again my phone showed no missed call.

This morning, I checked my voicemails.

The phone said I had 2. When I got the voicemail lady’s voice she said, “you have 4 unheard messages.”

I am beginning to have love-hate relationship with this cell-phone-forsaken-state of South Dakota, and I will flatly tell you that ALLTELL SUCKS BALLS! and they do a poor job of it at that. They are by far, the absolute worst phone company on the ENTIRE planet earth, and their technology sucks ass and I hate them. However, they are the only choice. Cell service is spotty, yes, and there are only a few places here that I can actually talk on the phone (which is completely torturous for those of you that know me!). I understand that there are only a *handful* of people where I live, like 100 in 850,000 acres. I get that, I really do. But the fact that their phone or service or wherever the breakdown is can’t:

1. show me a missed call
2. show me that I’ve got a voicemail
or
3. show me that I’ve got the correct number of voicemails just goes through me.

I know. I know. I can’t control it, but I’m wondering if I call them and say, you suck, your phone sucks and this is what it’s doing (or rather not doing) if it would improve the service any?

Probably not. I’ve learned; not a single corporation anymore, really cares about keeping people happy. They only care about making money.

Asshat Alltel. That’s what I think about you.

So girls, as much as you don’t want to leave me voicemail, my phone doesn’t let me know you even called so please do, because I can’t return a call I missed if I don’t know I missed it.