Seriously, what the hell? (vent)

Re: Seriously, what the hell? (vent)

• JCbride2015 member

  

  March 2014

  Yeah that's really shitty of the school to blow up his emergency contacts list, and then not call to say everything's okay.  Although really, Josh should have been the one to do that.  You'd think if everyone is panicking enough that your school is calling all your contacts, you should probably give your family and friends a call to say you're okay.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  "I'm not a rude bitch.  I'm ten rude bitches in a large coat."

  
  

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• pinkshorts27 member

  

  March 2014 edited March 2014

  He didn't actually know they called anyone until just now when I told him on the phone. They got a hold of him while he was buying his ticket apparently and said "oh we were looking for you, glad you are okay" and that was pretty much it. They didn't say they had called anyone so he didn't know. I talked to him after he went through security, now he is calling him mom and sister (because apparently his mom told his sister-soon to be bride- and now she is in panic mode, which is understandable). I don't even know how Stanford knew he missed his flight. It was a personal flight that he booked. Maybe the airline called someone? 

  
  

  ETA: the whole thing was crazy disorganized, I'm just mad about how the whole thing was handled. I'm sure he is embarrassed that everyone who works with him now knows he overslept and missed his flight.

  
  

  

  
  

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• mysticl member

  

  March 2014

  For the school to start calling people I feel like someone who knows him would have had to have contacted the administration and expressed concern for his whereabouts.  I really don't see the airline calling anyone over a missed flight.  I've missed flights and they didn't even call me about it.  Flights get missed all the time, airlines don't have the resources to start calling friends and family to notify them of a missed flight.  

  
  

  

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• phira member

  

  March 2014

  That is all kinds of whaaaat. I'm really sorry that you had to go through it. It's really stressful thinking that someone you care about might be in danger.

  
  

  Also, I don't think you should feel bad about feeling intensely alarmed and worried for several hours. A few months back, my partner was VERY sick with what was probably the flu, and he stayed home sick from work. He can be kind of bad about taking care of himself, especially when he's sick, so I was already concerned I was going to come home and have to take him to the ER for IV fluids or something. All day at work, he wasn't on GChat, which wasn't too weird (he doesn't usually chat online when he's home). But he wasn't answering calls or texts either, and he hadn't been active on social media.

  
  

  I basically ended up cutting corners at work so I could leave early, and I rushed home because I was 99% sure I was going to walk in and find him dead in the bedroom.

  
  

  He was fine. I mean, not REALLY fine (flu!), but I basically panicked over nothing.

  
  

  The good news is that you all are going to be able to tell this story about Josh forever and honestly, it's probably going to be very funny in retrospect.

  

  now with ~* INCREASED SASSINESS *~
  
  

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• pinkshorts27 member

  

  March 2014

  Yea sorry about venting so much. We finally determined that someone from his family figured out he hadn't checked in to his flight (though he had emailed his mom to tell her change of plans) and then managed to get a hold of our front office at 6am and she called his research adviser who gave out the names of his friends to call.  So that was all odd, but I completely flipped and was super worried because I thought they had something more concrete than "we think he missed his flight". So it was an emotional morning.

  
  

  

  
  

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