Ring Tone Intervention
Today while having a conversation with my boss a coworker walked by just as his cell phone began to ring. His ring tone…Dixie Chicks. My boss and I exchange horrified glances and I yelled to said coworker that he was kicked out of the department. His excuse for having such a terrible ring tone…no one would have the same one.
As music enthusiasts, Seth and I understand the importance of flaunting one’s musical tastes by way of a hip or obscure ring tone. Or one might choose to go the humor route with, as Seth suggested “I Like Big Butts.” But no, my coworker decided he could get by with the Dixie Chicks.
He was subsequently called multiple times over the next hour by my boss and other people with whom the information was shared.
05.27.08 in work
Dixie Chicks?!
No!
I think I can beat Dixie Chicks. My boss, female 50-something mother of three and former flower child of the 60s, for a year had Jay-Z’s “Big Pimpin’” as her ringtone. She said her daughter did it as a joke and she had no idea how to change it back to the default ringer. Joke or not, it was pretty darn hilarious.
Hmm… I just watched Office Space last night. I think “Damn it feels good to be a gangsta” would be a great ringtone! I’m on it…
oooh i should get an mcs ring tone….it’s about time to change things up.
I’m the nerd with “This is For Real” as her ringtone. HA.
Stage a grander intervention – surely this Dixie Chicks ringtone warrants it!
I thought it’d be hilarious to use the opening of Falco’s “Rock Me Amadeus” as my ringtone because (besides being my secret jam) it’s sooo obnoxious. That is until someone called me while I was at the library and I couldn’t find my phone in my purse. I felt pretty cool.
And thanks for the Diane Arbus tip. Somehow I’ve never seen that picture. :)