It's amazing how much we rely on technology; even something as simple as the phone.
Out of curiosity, I looked up the time period in which the telephone was invented and discovered that Alexander Graham Bell invented the first official telephone in 1876! (Yes, I'm truly amazed that it's been so long. I mostly stared out the window during history class.) With that much time to develop and update the telephone, you'd think we'd have it down pat today. But no. As we all know, there are glitches and moments of kaput-ness that happen all the time (besides dropping a cell phone in the toilet or a lake).
Today at work, my telephone and internet lines were out for about 3 hours. Nurses couldn't call doctors or families and vice versa. I had our wonderful IT guys on it almost instantly (thanks to my handy, dandy cell phone), but something had gone wrong in our server's server (details of which I honestly have no clue about) and we were stuck for that stretch of time. Three hours really isn't that long, but with those families, doctors, and other important people checking in or needing to be informed, I'm sure there was more panic outside my silent little island than I realized.
For myself, I couldn't do much since our internet went down with the phones as well. Most of my work is done through documents saved on an internet-powered server, so I did what I could without it. My cell phone sure did get a workout though from the important people who needed to contact me while we were out of service.
After our phones came back up, I got a call from a sister community who informed me that a concerned family member had called wondering what was up. So, I called this sweet lady back. She was worried that maybe we had had a fire or something terrible had happened. Needless to say, she was very relieved that it was only a phone outage.
It's amazing what one short lapse of communication can trigger.
Out of curiosity, I looked up the time period in which the telephone was invented and discovered that Alexander Graham Bell invented the first official telephone in 1876! (Yes, I'm truly amazed that it's been so long. I mostly stared out the window during history class.) With that much time to develop and update the telephone, you'd think we'd have it down pat today. But no. As we all know, there are glitches and moments of kaput-ness that happen all the time (besides dropping a cell phone in the toilet or a lake).
Today at work, my telephone and internet lines were out for about 3 hours. Nurses couldn't call doctors or families and vice versa. I had our wonderful IT guys on it almost instantly (thanks to my handy, dandy cell phone), but something had gone wrong in our server's server (details of which I honestly have no clue about) and we were stuck for that stretch of time. Three hours really isn't that long, but with those families, doctors, and other important people checking in or needing to be informed, I'm sure there was more panic outside my silent little island than I realized.
For myself, I couldn't do much since our internet went down with the phones as well. Most of my work is done through documents saved on an internet-powered server, so I did what I could without it. My cell phone sure did get a workout though from the important people who needed to contact me while we were out of service.
After our phones came back up, I got a call from a sister community who informed me that a concerned family member had called wondering what was up. So, I called this sweet lady back. She was worried that maybe we had had a fire or something terrible had happened. Needless to say, she was very relieved that it was only a phone outage.
It's amazing what one short lapse of communication can trigger.
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