I've waited twenty years for this
This may seem like something of a nothingburger to most people, but I just made a phone call. I've avoided the phone for most of the last twenty years. The most frustrating moments in my life have been trying to hear and understand on the phone. It affected me personally and professionally (I actually used to have people who worked for me come to my conference calls with me so we didn't miss anything). Once I was on a call about a contract that directly affected my site, and the legal team was asking me questions about how to structure it and I couldn't participate in the call functionally. I had to pass it off to my colleague from corporate sourcing - and then I hung up the phone and quietly lost my %$# for a few minutes. I've had co-workers on calls with me, and when I was trying to schedule my CI surgery, I had our HR manager, who was a friend, on the call so I could hear. I LOATHE telephones. But I needed to make a call today. We booked a t...