Muppetboy ([info]whiteboy) wrote in [info]b0st0n,
2008-01-14 05:52:00
Thank you, Northeastern University for the 5:50 wake up call to inform me that classes were cancelled today.

Just one question, since I don't go to, nor ever been a student or faculty member of Northeastern University, why did you decide to call me? And how'd you get my cell phone number?

I mean, I was already up getting ready to go to work early, but I'd be pretty pissed if I was sleeping like I normally am at 6 a.m.

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[info]j3ss

January 14 2008, 11:10:36 UTC 4 years ago

I got that call too. Then I discovered my office was still open.

[info]j3ss

January 14 2008, 12:15:01 UTC 4 years ago

Here's the president's email. Anyone have his home phone?

http://www.northeastern.edu/president/biography.html

[info]liamstliam

January 14 2008, 12:23:53 UTC 4 years ago

Don't you people appreciate anything?

How busy do you think the package stores are gonna be when they open this morning?

[info]rubicat

January 14 2008, 12:30:48 UTC 4 years ago

I'm personally SO HAPPY to be awake, considering I work at home and don't get up until 9 usually (because I go to bed at 1 AM).

WTF.

[info]thetathx1138

January 14 2008, 12:39:19 UTC 4 years ago

Normally I'd just say you have a cell number that's one digit off from a student's, but it sounds like you're not the only one. Weird.

[info]belladonna

January 14 2008, 12:45:26 UTC 4 years ago

That's pretty funny. Oh Northeastern with your wacky cases of mistaken identity.

[info]lucazzo

January 14 2008, 13:08:18 UTC 4 years ago

That's weird. They set up that automated call system like 2 months ago and "confirmation" was required to receive those calls.

[info]kris10_86

January 14 2008, 14:32:08 UTC 4 years ago

I got one too, and an email...I assumed it was because I am my brother's emergency contact and he goes to Northeastern.

[info]whiteboy

January 14 2008, 15:26:57 UTC 4 years ago

Turns out you're correct. I have a friend who used to take night classes and I asked and she had me as the emergency contact.

Thanks for helping me figure that out. I may have come up with that on my own latter today, but logical assumptions are not something my brain is up to before 6 a.m.

[info]whiteboy

January 14 2008, 15:27:47 UTC 4 years ago

"later today", not "latter".

Time for coffee...~sigh~

[info]punkinpixie

January 14 2008, 14:50:12 UTC 4 years ago

Yes. My mom in New Jersey got a phone call on the house phone, her cell phone, and an email at work informing her that Northeastern had a snow day today. I mean, that's great that the system works so if there was a school shooter everyone would know, but for a snow day it seems a little extreme.

[info]ttelracs

January 14 2008, 14:52:52 UTC 4 years ago

Wow that is extreme ... I wonder how many parents from warm weather called their children in hysterics "OMG ARE YOU OK?????? THERE'S SNOW?!!!"

[info]jenskot

January 14 2008, 14:58:35 UTC 4 years ago

Hahaha!!! XD

[info]closetalker11

January 14 2008, 17:09:35 UTC 4 years ago

Hah, my mother (in Louisiana) would absolutely have done that. And my grandmother.

[info]sofiaviolet

January 14 2008, 17:56:25 UTC 4 years ago

My mom (also in Louisiana) would just want to make sure I had some food stockpiled, as though I've been cut off from all grocery stores for many days.

[info]belladonna

January 15 2008, 03:26:49 UTC 4 years ago



?

[info]purrfectvision

January 15 2008, 00:15:23 UTC 4 years ago

My mom lives in MI so she sees snow but anything on the news about a storm out here and she calls me in a panic asking if I'm ok.

[info]whitefire

January 14 2008, 15:48:48 UTC 4 years ago

Maybe they're just not that smart. I mean, this is Northeastern we're talking about.

[info]ron_newman

January 14 2008, 16:02:25 UTC 4 years ago

Didn't get that, but did get a robo-call about a half hour ago from some company wanting to know if they had successfully delivered a Yellow Book phone directory.

[info]j3ss

January 14 2008, 16:57:29 UTC 4 years ago

Is that in case your Internet breaks?

[info]weezercrazed

January 14 2008, 17:41:32 UTC 4 years ago

lol

[info]absinthetic

January 14 2008, 17:14:56 UTC 4 years ago

Ha ha, that's nothing. A few years ago, I was in my senior year of college in Florida. I was walking to class, and I got a call on my cell phone saying "Hi, this is so-and-so from School of the Museum of Fine Arts. We're just calling to let you know that you missed your scheduled portfolio review with Professor So-and-So, so you need to reschedule." I had applied there 4 years ago and was accepted, but I ending up going to Ringling School of Art and Design. I guess my phone number must've stayed in their system and someone with the same name as me must've missed their portfolio review.
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