Next time send me a pigeon!!!
I know most of you are very intelligent people; that much can be easily inferred from the comments you have been making in this here blog thingy.
But maybe, just maybe, there is someone amongst the souls who come across this thingy who doesn’t quite understand that an e-mail does not need to be preceded by a herald.
I am talking about people the likes of those who phone you just after pressing the “send” icon on their e-mail client.
And what do they say when you answer the phone?!
“I’ve just sent you an e-mail, please answer back fast, bye. Click”
Yes, if it weren’t for those phone calls I would never dream of checking my f!”#$#” e-mail!!!
Imagine how many messages would have gone unread, un-replied, if it weren’t for those phone calls.
(for those less savvy creatures who actually make this kind of phone calls: the last two sentences are S A R C A S M, you can check out what this word means by clicking this L I N K)
At first I would simply make fun of these calls. Then I started getting mad at people for doing such idiotic things. Afterwards I started pitying them. Some time later I started pitying ME for having to put up with them.
Now I only wish we could ship’em off to a different planet (I know, I know, Douglas Adams' theory is that is exactly how those idiots got here in the first place).
But maybe, just maybe, there is someone amongst the souls who come across this thingy who doesn’t quite understand that an e-mail does not need to be preceded by a herald.
I am talking about people the likes of those who phone you just after pressing the “send” icon on their e-mail client.
And what do they say when you answer the phone?!
“I’ve just sent you an e-mail, please answer back fast, bye. Click”
Yes, if it weren’t for those phone calls I would never dream of checking my f!”#$#” e-mail!!!
Imagine how many messages would have gone unread, un-replied, if it weren’t for those phone calls.
(for those less savvy creatures who actually make this kind of phone calls: the last two sentences are S A R C A S M, you can check out what this word means by clicking this L I N K)
At first I would simply make fun of these calls. Then I started getting mad at people for doing such idiotic things. Afterwards I started pitying them. Some time later I started pitying ME for having to put up with them.
Now I only wish we could ship’em off to a different planet (I know, I know, Douglas Adams' theory is that is exactly how those idiots got here in the first place).
19 Comments:
Using some more sarcasm:
my manager told me once:
"I repeat all the time: phone, phone, phone. E-mail is a definitive solution which seems to be an escalation which shouldn't be a common behaviour in bilateral, industrial relations"
and some time later he says:
"You should confirm every phonecall by an e-mail"
your co-workers have another behaviour - to confirm every e-mail with a phone :)
How very odd. I can understand this happening at work to a degree because there are some folks who aren't good at checking their work email. I have no idea why, but they aren't. I'm the opposite. I rarely get calls here at work so if someone leaves me a voice mail, they are doomed. I never look to see if my message light is on at all! Maybe someone needs to send ME a pigeon when they leave me a phone msg!
I was thinking a bit about this issue and... I think there are some situations in which this is ok. Our customers are ones of them who needs such kick. Let's say that's some problem/error. We are sending them email in which there are details and then we call them to kick them to take further steps. They usually have to meet to discuss the problem so these aren't the problems which could easily be solved just by phone.
It happends, but it's the special case.
isis: I actually don't mind when people call me, after all if I can't answer the phone I simply let it go to voice mail, and we finally have caller id in Portugal so sometimes I just check who is calling and then ignore it. But sending a mail AND calling drives me nuts.
shyha: If there will be need for explanation that requires a call it's ok. Sometimes I do things the other way around, explaining things by phone and later supply comprehensive info by e-mail. But what I’m talking here are simply calls to let me know there was an e-mail sent. Some time ago I had this dumb impossible to train monkey who would call me and ask me if I had my outlook “open” so she could send me an e-mail. I told her several times over two years that she could send the damned e-mails anytime and why this was so. She calls ‘til today.
Glitzy: Maybe they are trying not to be ignored… Who cares!!!
rjm: Never!!! Not in a million years!!! Then they would call me to ask what that meant… and afterwards they would com in person so I could explain it again and again!
BTW, is there any meaning to that???
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This is getting to be a culinary blog, dcver!
Chicken yesterday, pigeon today?
What's cooking for tomorrow?
Word verification:
qrrhow...is this a promise?
I just sent you a pigeon to let you know I'm leaving this message here. Please reply when you get the pigeon or this message.
Are you going to cook the pigeon?
OK... I'll admit it. I've done this. But ONLY to my drummer who doesn't ever bother to answer his emails. And most of the time doesn't return phone calls. I figure if I hound him, eventually I'll get him to call me back. It's not that he's not interested, it's just that he's a drummer!
LAST GIRL ON EARTH
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tall glass and GG: Your replies have been sent by smoke signs, hope you were watching the sky.
cream: Thought you wouldn't be the one complaining about all this food... ;) I didn't get the promise thing though, what do you mean?
last girl: Maybe the bulk approach works with him. It wouldn't work with me though.
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shyha: LOL
Can you send your phone number Dc??
Word verification: qrrhow...Sounds like CROW...
Chicken, pigeon, crow...
Just a daft idea...
kris: I've just sent my phone number! In smoke signs...
cream: Nope. Does anybody eat those? Anyway, the word verification is the sole responsibility of the blogger team, I've got no choice over that.
Eating crow... huuummm. Where did I hear that before?
I watched the skies and I saw some big fat cloud spiders heading for Portugal :-D
GG: Hadn't met your vindictive side before... guess now is as good a time as any other to get acquainted. ;)
Just hope those spiders make haste, so I can get rid of'em before Good Half comes back. Hehehehehe.
That drives me bananas. For the sake of preserving what little sanity I have just tell me what is conveyed in the email.
bent: The e-mails sometimes contain work files, sometimes contain lame old jokes, pictures, whatever. These idiots do this for EVERY single mail they send everyone. I know it does not make sense. That is exactly why it drives me nuts! LOL
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