I hate my work phone.
For any number of reasons.
The reason I hate my work phone today is that when I picked it up this morning it told me I needed to change my device password.
So I did.
I entered my current password. And then I entered my new password (which is just my old password with one digit changed). And then I entered my new password, with its one changed digit, again.
When my phone patted me on the head and said “Password accepted” (indicating that I had successfully entered the same thing twice in a row), I closed it, took my shower, then went downstairs and made a coffee and put my lunch together before heading to work.
At the end of the day I walked up to the bus stop and, while waiting for the bus to arrive (it was very, very late!) I tried to open my phone.
And it laughed in my face, taunted me, and proclaimed that I had entered the wrong password.
Mistakes happen…so I entered it again.
And it gave that little vibration and said, (in its more polite way) “No you stupid moron, that is not the correct password.”
Try again.
So I did.
With the same result.
Alright you hateful device, you have my attention.
I tried several more times until the evil thing had a snit fit and told me that I now had to wait 1 minute before trying again.
Kirk and I boarded the bus and I shoved it in my bag to show it who was boss.
Apparently I am not the boss.
Because when I came home and tried again, it upped the ante and told me I would have to wait 5 minutes.
Then 15.
And then we were up to an hour.
I give up.
I’m screwed.
Ticket submitted. Reset the damned password please.
Only issue?
I am off work tomorrow and Monday. I will clearly not be checking my phone over the weekend.
Wait…that’s a good thing, isn’t it!
It’s not like IT will actually get back to me by tomorrow anyway.
I was trying to figure out how it had taken me until the end of the day to discover that I had screwed up my password entry this morning when I realized I’d used it once, but only to take a call, not make one, and that I’d been in the office near my computer all day and so had done everything from that instead of my phone.
What have I learned from this day?
Don’t change your work device password before you’ve had a coffee in the morning.
