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What the fuck is up with people who don’t return your phone calls, emails, etc.
I’m in a business where communication is key and time is of the essence. So why does it take people days to return a simple phone call or pop off a quick email? —Losing My Patience
This article appears in May 26 – Jun 1, 2011.
17 Comments
Maybe YOUR urgent business isn’t someone else’s urgent business and they have other priorities?
Stop being so fucking entitled!
I’m in a similar situation as the OB. At work if WE don’t send an email saying your server is boned, we get shit on. But they don’t need to check email so we still get shit on because they don’t read. Arg, so angry making.
WHen you get a ton of email….for me, it becomes a prioritize issue.
What is important, & what isn’t….& people I don’t do face crack for a reason… do you really think the growing Bullshit “Linked IN” is any fucking different !
And god damn it but they’re pushy. reminder after reminder Jesus H Christ, I don’t need no stinking reminder ! Where is the FUCK OFF button, that’s what I want to see.
I worked a 15 hour day yesterday & when I got in last evening/late afternoon, the last thing I wanted to do was answer each & every person in a group of over 60 new emails !
some people might actually be busier than yo o.p., or they might not get mail right away, or are just plain fucking lazy. you decide.
I tend to take care of the important stuff right away……apparently I do not think your phone/email/notices etc. are of any importance so you are at the bottom of the list………don’t hold your breath!
I work in an environment where i get tons of emails and calls all at once, sporadically. It’s either a situation where I’m bored to tears (this week, in fact), or everything’s coming at me at once. One day I put my phone on forward because I just couldn’t handle it constantly ringing while I had a million and a half things to do. i checked it after an hour and I had 47 voice mails! No fucking way I’m going to get back to 47 people immediately. Most had to wait a day and some had to wait two days.
Basically, YOUR emergency isn’t necessarily MY emergency, so just because you send me emails all “RESPOND ASAP!!!!” or call me five times during my lunch hour when I’m not here to answer the phone all “OMG THIS IS URGENT CALL ME BACK” doesn’t mean I can get to you right away. I try to accommodate everyone, but my GOD sometimes I’m busy!
I get students, too, who expect me to snap my fingers or wave a little wand and have their transcripts ready instantaneously or bump someone’s registration in a course because they were too lazy to register before the class was full (especially when it’s two days before the course starts and you had at least 8 months to register!!!).
The people I work with don’t realize that shit takes time and it’s not always possible to expedite requests when people, who actually have their shit together, are higher up on the “to do” list.
We’re not the ones being rude and we’re not purposely trying to fuck with your day/life/whatever — we just have priorities that may not include being your personal bitch at your beck and call.
HOWEVER, today’s my friday and I get to leave in two hours so it’s all good 🙂
Here’s a fun game to play with those phone answering systems that want you to say the name of the person you’re trying to reach.
Machine: “Say the name of the person you are trying to reach.”
Me: “fucking machine fuck off”
Machine: “I’m sorry. I didn’t understand you. Please say the name of the person you are trying to reach.”
Me: “I said fuck off and get me a human”
Machine: “I’m sorry. I didn’t understand you. Please say the name of the person you are trying to reach.”
Me: “go fuck yourself already”
Machine: “I’m sorry. I didn’t understand you. Your call is being forwarded to an operator.”
Me: “it’s about fucking time”
I know I’m merely wasting my time but I do find it very satisfying on those days of the week when the .50 cal machine guns under the hood of my car are out of ammo.
I have nothing else to do at work but wait for YOUR phone call, so try me…
I do kinda feel OB’s pain; I have to call vendors all the time and at least 50% of the they say they never got the e-mail or phone msg. LOL
“Your emergency isn’t necessarily my emergency” -Petty K
I agree 110% , with you on that….& I believe the vast majority is onside with you there .
I swear, when it comes to this site, for some people it’s ALWAYS the other person’s fault.
I hate leaving detailed messages. Whenever I do, I always get a return call that starts like this “I see you called, what’s up?”
Another call center bitch…..
Your call is important to me. Please stay on the line until one of my representatives becomes free to answer your call. If that doesn’t work for you, please feel free to GO AWAY.
I still can’t figure out how I managed it, but while working through the menus of an automated answering system (‘press 1 for schedules, 2 for reservations, etc.’) I somehow made my way to administrative mode. I think I pressed 2-3 keys at the same time. Unfortunately I didn’t have the imagination at the moment to exploit the huge opportunity for mischief that it would have offered. v_v
I’m horrible for this. I don’t get that much email, but I despise sitting there and trying to formulate a perfect response, fretting over whether I’m being professional enough or whatever — so I end up procrastinating, bad.
ok, now everybody say this together with me….
“A lack of proper prior planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine”
– Old English Proverb
Maybe this is the problem:
http://work.failblog.org/2011/05/26/job-fa…