• Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Calling someone out of the blue is rude nowadays, because mainly we only get spam calls.

    Texts and emails are better, and if you just want to talk for a while, schedule it with a text.

    Hey, call me when you can tonight, nothing urgent.

    This is the new Way.

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      11 months ago

      My inbox with >1000 inread emails says otherwise. You want something from me? Call me. Emails are just for meeting notes and other information for archival. Fuck every single one asking me to do something via email.

      Instant messaging is the absolutely worst by the way. Nothing is archived and its way less efficient than a quick call.

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                11 months ago

                Haha. I’m a mechanical engineer and I completely agree with you.

                Sometimes there are 5 email responses in a chain with long comments from different people. I just want to have a 5 min call to sort it out. Also, I get a lot of emails while in a meeting and later need to get to work instead of checking all my emails. If you need something urgent, pick up the phone and call me or wait for a week until I clear my inbox.

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                11 months ago

                Bless ya. Logistics here. I run equipment designed to be staffed by 4-6 people. We run it with 2-3. All the C-suite at my corporation can say about that is that we don’t clean enough, lol.