This is a little story, a life lesson if you will, about how a mobile company can fuck you if you aren’t careful!!!
It turns out roaming DOES in fact cost a shit load of money and if you aren’t mindful of your usage you may run into this situation. Lisa, my co-worker, got a call from Rogers today claiming that my mobile usage was unusually high and it was primarily used in Italy. Well according to Rogers I had used enough data and minutes to rack up our company bill to $10,000….HOLY FUCKING DONKEY DICKS! Apparently that was only my share of the bill. You see, Ryan, another co-worker of mine, and I recently went to the MIDEM Music Conference in Cannes, France to do some business and post conference decided to take a couple of days to chill and visit Italy where we checked out Cinque Terra. I’m well aware of roaming charges, but unbeknownst to me, I was accumulating some serious charges by what seemed to be infrequently checking emails or maybe sending a text here or there. The funny thing is I barely used my phone while in France and Italy since, as those who own iPhones know, the battery is terrible and dies within the hour. That’s why the obscenely high amount was really strange to me. Lisa finishes her heart pounding call with Rogers and comes out of her office half flustered, half painfully smiling, “HOLY SHIT SERGE YOU ARE SO LUCKY”. Before any explanation of that statement was made to me, the news that I accumulated almost $10,000 worth of charges during my trip to MIDEM and Italy came from Lisa’s face. My stomach almost exploded out of my mouth. The prospect of me having to pay such a gross amount of money back to the company on top of dealing with my own personal debt, was not something I was seemingly looking forward to…who the eff would. Alas, there is a happy ending to this monetary nightmare. Lisa miraculously managed to get those charges removed from our account and essentially got Rogers to wipe the slate clean. I don’t know how she did it but thanks to Lisa I basically averted a premature midlife crisis! By the way, did I tell you I sold my iPhone just yesterday? Welcome back Blackberry!
At MIDEM at our Canada Stand after the Obama inauguration!
