A desperate, pitiful, embarrassing plea

I don't want to rush to judgement or anything but this sounds like a pretty shitty deal. Company going to lay off 3000 people tries to make you all feel better by giving one person tix and jet ride to Superbowl? Do you work for Enron?

No shit. I'd be pretty pissed off that I knew I'd be sacrificing my employment for one dude to get the royal treatment for a day.

Its going to happen anyway so I WANT TO BE THAT ONE DUDE

and, no, its not enron. its just a normal corporation who got offered too much money to turn down. business, hey?

**sniff** This is such a beautiful story.

Are you still getting a full redundancy package, and wouldn't a wee thank-you to everyone rather than a great big thank you to one person be a better gesture? Are they making any money off the text message thing?

not that this is going to be an issue for everyone else competing, and a couple of us going "fucking morans" isn't going to stop this happening, so if you can't beat em, join em, eh?

How can foreigners like me participate in the Put Sunny In The Jet competition?

Stan is the only one talking sense here!

Yes we are all getting better than full redundancy packages PLUS retention bonuses PLUS end of year bonuses. Its cool. No one is ready to load up their AK47 just yet.

None of those bonuses mean I can afford the superbowl btw so pls text

does your snowman get to go to the superbowl

ILL DO IT

Alltel: Thanks for pre-registering! Boarding begins 8/30. Alltelfootball.com. Txt HELP for info or STOP to quit. Std/other rts apply.

Oh, "STanDard."

8/30???? I guess thats tomorrow.

I GOT YR BACK SUNNY HAVA AWZOM SUPERBOWL

alltel gridiron getaway. sorry this program is not supported on your carrier.

:(

What the hell!!!!!

i will take the snowman if he returns but more likely i will take beeps because we do not doubt her green bay packers will be competing.

Imagine going to your first superbowl before the age of 2!!!

Err..i dont know where that leaves PP.

Deez I knew I could count on you xxxxxx thx kingkong and fore trying icecreamery

done and done

i would take a trip in a private jet over super bowl tix to be honest (saying this as a football fan)

sunny i texted for you!

Just to keep it near the top.

thx guys!!

does anyone know if as a Canadian I can text this as well? cell is at home so I can't test but I have never texted a # that isn't a regular phone number :P

when does sunny find out if she won?

create loads of web-based email accounts that let you send free texts net to phone

I don't have a cell phone or I'd help you out. :(

Didn't Dan get an iPhone through a similar plea to ILX? Or a jacket or something?

Yeah he did! Thats what gave me the idea to ask you guys. so c'mon and TXTXTXTXTXTXTXTTXTXTXTXTTXT

deez....i have no idea! october maybe?

if anyone else has any ideas on how to drum up support for my selfish cause pls let me know

Staggeringly douchey company, but I did it and see how many other phones I can do it from here at the RNC (we all got free phones here).

But apparently it does not work from sprint.

can we use those web based texting program to do this?

"wtf? how can one of our employees have so many fans abroad? terror alert!"

you got two texts on saturday afternoon from the 479

I fell a bit bad about my first post and I really want to see Sunny at the superbowl...so..er..how do we do this from the UK?

Thanks, ED!

Ken, I think as long as it comes from something linked to an actually phone number its good

Thanks KIA and MIA!

Ned, I have no idea but I think Ken might be onto something.

Yeah Sprint is the only company that refuses to have a peer-to-peer thingy with 4lltel. ie: they wont let
4lltel work out the charges of their customers roaming on the others network. Theyre actually trying to fix it now so I guess that will be good for like 3 months.

Staggeringly douchey company, but I did it and see how many other phones I can do it from here at the RNC (we all got free phones here).

-- Ed, Monday, September 1, 2008 10:34 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Actually 4lltel was sold at the beginning of the year (or maybe late last year) to an investment co which everyone was happy with because the investment co werent going to make any changes because they know fuck all about telcos. In less than a year, the investment co turned around and sold it to Veriz0n. So we'll all be retrenched because they already have people that do our jobs. I dont care. I WANT SUPERBOWL!!!!

doing this now

done and done

Thx Roxy <3<3

Why did you google-proof the names of various cellular phone service providers?

i dont know why i do 99.999% of what i do.

oh yeah and were not supposed to be talking about it

How is this going?

I had to go back into work to reboot my comp late Friday night and there in the deserted lobby was a new poster advertising the comp. Before it had just been in a little box on our intranet and it had disappeared after a day. It was all I could do not to take that poster and destroy it to stop anyone else finding out.

As for the numbers, I dont know. I bet some guy in Wilkes-Barre is doing his best to kick my ass.

I sent a text.

Hope you get to go to the Superbowl, sunny.

Thanks!!

Guys I think we did this too early! they sent out the leasderboard on friday and it said WEEK 2. wtf. I was nowhere to be found :(

START TEXTING

how did this turn out?

well they sent out another leaderboard and I was...8th? maybe but it said i only had 4 texts! maybe I started everyone texting too early?

just texted, got back a message:

"Alltel Gridiron Getaway. Sorry, this program is not supported on your carrier."

Sprint, btw

DAMN YOU SPRINT! Thanks anyway, JJ!

I think the guy in the lead had like 245 texts. this seems real easy to win if i just put some effort in

is it "p zero zero zero" or "p o o o" that we're texting

(and done) (as long as it's zero)

its zeros. thanks, roxy!

i'll do it from my bf's phone, too. so we can text once a day? you've totally got this

done! it told me i am now registered and can enter once/day? did i do it right?

can i do this from like Skype or something

is this still going

yes

iust did this - but it's saying i registered for something. um, can i ignore that ?

or should i "reply "HELP / STOP to quit" as it suggests?

i did this also and got the regstration message. i hope it's not entering ME in the contest.

cuz fuck man i don't wanna go to no superb bowl.

x-post yeah, coz i hate private jets

yeah that's what i was worried about, too

i got a message telling me that "57533" is not a valid destination! :( any chance there's another number?

oh man. i dont want to mess up anyones monthly message quota with crazy spam or anything. its an employee contest for 4llt3l where i guess mostly customer service people will be asking customers to do it so i really really really doubt spam PLUS 4llt3l wont exist in a month (V3riz0n takeover) so that makes me doubt it even more.

Unless im just doing this completely wrong. Ill double check but im sure the the rules say get people to send yr position number to 57533.

You guys rule, btw! Thanks!

horseshoe, i couldnt find a long version of that number :(