Posted on 03/23/2012 12:06:48 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
Sad yes but? I copied the voice mails I wanted to save off line.
That sucks.
There had to be a better way to back something like that up than just leaving it on a proprietary voicemail system.
SnakeDoc
In fairness to the company, there is no way for them to know the value of old voicemails. . .in hindsight. .there are ways to record them and get them in MP3 format for your own archives. . .but sad, nonetheless. . .he’s grieving over losing his daughter. . nothing sadder than a parent losing a child.
Dad has a voice mail from Mom that is similar. I really need to record that before something happens to it.
But the phone company is really being insensitive here. They have that backed up some where. They should make the guy a disk of the voice mails, and charge him $20 or $50 or whatever it costs. They guy would pay and that would be the end of it.
How much ya want to bet that the Phone Company is looking for these Voice Mails via BACK-Up tapes right now.
But Butler, who works for a labor union, said compensation isn't enough. He's hired attorney Chris Crew to file a negligence suit against the company, demanding them to tap into archives and retrieve the voicemails.
You know, I'm sorry you lost a link to your daughter. But suing for negligence is way beyond the pale.
It’s sad but it’s not proper for a lawsuit. Data stored elsewhere isn’t forever, if he wanted it forever he should have stored it locally. My cable/ phone company has an online interface, I can download things straight, probably something similarly easy for him, he didn’t bother, not their fault.
Sad? Yes. But it will probably be good for him in the long-run. The man needs to get used to not hearing his daughter anymore. She’s gone.
Wish him the best!
I am so sorry for this being erased, but the guy was not wise in not recording multiple copies. I would have done this for the very reason of it getting erased.
Sad. A family member deliberately erased my dad’s last message to me off my answering machine. She meant well, but I’ve always wished I could have that back.
wow... he didn’t save copies... that is whats really sad.
I have a video with my wife on it (she died of liver cancer at 29). I’ve kept it since the mid 90s. It’s gone with me in every place I’ve lived since. It’s also unwatched. Because I know she is gone and that’s the way it is. I don’t need to watch it to get through the rest of life. But I know it’s there. And that’s good enough for me.
If this man needed his recordings to do what he has to do, then so be it. I’m sorry for both of his losses.
I saved my copies by recording them on a cassette player. Not great but it worked.
I had a voice-mail from my wife who died. I listened to it every so often for a year. There does come a time when it is time to move on.
When our son was stationed in Japan while in the navy, I would listen to his voice mails. Yes, he called when he could, but on those long weeks when the ship was out and he couldn’t call, it was a comfort to hear his voice.
I grieve for this man. Several family members have lost children. I can only imagine what a blessing it would be to be able to hear their child’s voice again.
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