[sdiy] Futurelec - BAD experience.

[Bob Weigel]

Well...that and we have a generation of people who love to blow things 
off and don't basically take communication seriously.  I never ignore 
emails NOR do I let my answering machine pick up for me unless I'm dead 
tired or something.  Because people are important to me.
     Near everybody I call anymore it's their stupid answering machine I 
get and they rarely call back in any kind of reasonable time...even if I 
have my bench cluttered with a complex mess that I'm working on for 
them.  It's so irritating.  If I could blow up every message machine and 
message ID on the planet...man would I do it.  Then people could decide 
"ok do I want to communicate at all or not?" again.  I have an idea 
that..if people had phones...they would answer the thing then :-)
      The LEAST people should do is rap off a quick "I'm really busy 
now, I'll keep this on my desktop til I can get to it".
  -Bob

Richard Wentk wrote:

> At 10:26 28/07/2005, Rainer Buchty wrote:
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>> >I reccomend using a phone for all this.  Email is inherintly
>> >'unserious'.
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>> And why would that be?
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> Because you get someone's undivided attention, and the interaction 
> bandwidth is much higher. It automatically puts you at or near the top 
> of the 'To do' queue. And you can pressure them directly and check 
> their responses.
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> Emails are like writing letters. If someone's busy or not very 
> together, they just won't bother.
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> Richard
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