Why I Quit Vodafone

5 Months ago I did something I haven’t done in years – I changed my mobile phone provider. This wasn’t because I found a better deal elsewhere, had reached the end of a contract, changed where I lived or anything of that ilk. I left Vodafone Australia for a multitude of reasons that essentially came down to the fact that they couldn’t even provide me with the basic services most people take for granted. Since doing my own reading around social networking I’ve realised that the term ‘most people’ needs to be redefined to ‘people who aren’t on Vodafone’.

I joined Voda a while ago, from Optus. My ex girlfriend worked for them and could get me a good deal on a prepaid package and a new handset when it really was time for me to get one. I should have seen it coming then to be honest. I got the phone home and within a week I could barely get half a bar of reception in my own house. The ex and I returned to my local Vodafone store to receive no analysis of ANYTHING, I was just handed a new handset. For a while this seemed ok until it all started again. I know from back in the early Optus days that my house seems to be at the fringes of about 4-5 different reception areas, and the phone constantly changes between them depending on what room of the house I’m in and no doubt which way the wind is blowing. I ended up taking my SIM card out of the phone and putting it in an older model I got off my brother, and for a while things were fine..... For a while.....

Enough With The ImPOTUS

It’s been a while, but I’m still here. I have a multitude of blogs to write and there’s a chance that many of them will probably seem outdated and irrelevant by the time I finally get to post them, but today I felt the need to say my piece before the world celebrates/commiserates/whatever. As with most of my writings I don’t know where I’ll be going with this, but I’ll see you on the other side:

The last few weeks here in Australia, and no doubt in many other countries around the world, have seen an abundance of information, reports, statistics and much more regarding the soon-to-be-held US election. On the internet this is even more rampant. I’m not sure what the reaction is on Facebook but on Twitter it’s practically non-stop. Everyone is an armchair American. I don’t blame the majority of people – the media saturation has almost been enough to make us forget what country we’re living in, but I’ve come to a point where I feel the need to say something to people who are getting on social media and distinctly telling Americans, or pleading with them, how they should vote.

‘Why?’ I hear you ask? Well, if everyone else gets to have an opinion and wars with people on Twitter and such, I might as well try and get my piece in before the results are in.

I’m not pro-Republican or pro-Democrat, I honestly don’t give a shit how their country is run. Given the reaction of many other people I would, however, seem to be in a minority. Perhaps I should contextualise first.