Luke ‘n’ Kim

no waking, only sleeping

21 August, 2008 – 6:38 pm

i’ve been putting off this post for a while, saving a choice rant for when i could articulate it properly… unfortunately i doubt that’ll ever be possible, so;

what is the worst alarm clock noise you’ve ever had?

“worst” is an interesting word, because it may translate to “most effective”

insert invader zim quote here

i’m yet to find an alarm that has me springing out of bed happy to be alive, further, my first thought in the morning used to be “what time is it” but now it’s “no waking, only sleeping”…

did you ever use that old school “beep beep beep beep” on your clock radio? i have in the past, just so i would get up to watch motorbike racing when we didn’t have a VCR (hardcore huh) , but otherwise i’ve used my mobile or the radio… which is fine… and then I started having to be “oncall” for work… it’s like having an alarm clock that could ring at any time, sounds FUN huh.

answering the oncall blackberry isn’t optional, it is, for all intents and purposes, a wake up call. so it needs to have a ringtone that is so loud and obnoxious you cannot sleep through it… with all this in mind, the default blackberry ringtones are abysmal.

the loudest, most likely to wake a person up ringtone is the default “old timey bell telephone” ringtone.

…but this is where we run into problems, this ringtone is the default for incoming voice calls for every blackberry on the planet.

imagine for a moment, every “manager level” desk jockey having your alarm clock noise, as their ringtone.

**shudder** is an understatement…

“so why don’t you just change the oncall phone ringtone?”

yeah, i know, next time i have the oncall phone i will, but the noise is so ingrained now, it’s a little bit late.

the fact that they don’t change it, feeds into another theory i have about middle-management, but i’ll save that for another time…