Life would be a lot simpler if phone systems did not interrupt it.
You know the scenario; you are sitting at your laptop with dozens of articles to conjure up on phone systems and the very thing you are writing about starts to call you.
Sometimes it’s bad enough to construct words about them, never mind phone systems being the one issue that stops you from carrying on with doing what you are meant to be.
Half way through a masterpiece and the phone goes off and invariably it will be systems which are trying to sell you some silly insurance policy that you have rarely heard of. Or it’s a bank’s phone system informing you about a new service they are providing “for free” and then you sign up and then find out it isn’t gratis and will cost you a small fortune.
By the time three phone systems operators have called you your train of thought has all but diminished and you are left staring at an empty screen, fingers unable to type and all creative juices have gone.
And just when you pluck up the energy to write again the phone rings for the umpteenth occasion and it’s another systems getting you to talk into an automated systems operator for an additional factor you wish would go away.
Even if you are at work then phone systems can get in the space of creativity, especially if you happen to be in the field of journalism. Spending hours on a feature can feel like days when phone systems constantly go off in your ear and then you have to answer an individual’s phone and are forced to speak to a muppet about a matter you couldn’t care less about.
Other than the above, phone systems are a great commodity to have, aren’t they?