Today I arrived in Poland where I’ll be for a couple of due to personal reasons. I flew from Chicago to Dublin and then on to Warsaw. In Chicago I went through hell where Aer Lingus staff was taking their sweet time and took over an hour to issue one ticket. The ground experience sucked as it seemed like nobody cared about anything. The flight on the other hand was quite nice however i though I’d never say it but it was too short (only just over six hours). When I fly directly yo Poland at least I have enough time to sleep. This flight on the other hand departed Chicago at 4.20 pm and arrived in Dublin, Ireland at 5 am (which made it 11 pm Chicago time…WHICH is the time I go to sleep) and after arrival I had the whole day ahead of me. Two hours wait for my connection to Warsaw. After arrival in Warsaw I did not make it on yet another connecting flight to my hometown due to weight restrictions on the aircraft…that’s the joy of employee travel so now I have to wait five hours for next flight. I’m barely awake and the only way to get on the net (besides depleting completely my prepaid sim card by running on 3.5G) was to connect through hot spot at the airport hotel (Marriott) for PLN 35.00 which today equals $13 for one hour. This is a total robbery but what’s a geek to do….. I’m surrounded by a load of business people…some are negotiating deals other is interviewing a girl for some kind of job…and all are on their smart phones…So far only one on BlackBerry and about 10 with Nokias…ranginf from the new slim 6300 (ok..not so smart..after all it’s only S40) then some on 6630, a couple of N70’s. As far as the laptops…only one is the fashion conscious Mac user. The rest are using PC machines….. I just peeked at the girl that’s being interviewed by the businessman…she’s a wreck…chuckles and giggles from time to time but stress is showing on her forehead…poor thang… I hope she gets the job (or at least that the job is worth the stress).
Back to phones….I’ve noticed that the businessmen around me have funny ring tones on their devices…noting that comes preloaded on the phone. Mr. “Interviewer” has Mission Impossible theme, another one had some funky song that sound familiar but I can’t recall the title…and here I thought Euro Businessmen were so stiff and serious. I’ve had three cups of tea already and if I have another one I’ll be jumping up and down so I better stop. Ooopppss…just spotted another crackberry….
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