Text- respond whenever
Call- attention now
It’s a call to responsibility, and I hate those
What do you fear?
That you’re not up to the task?
That you’ll dissapoint your peers?
Pick up that phone and face your fears
For you will never miss
the paths you failed on
but the ones you never dared to tread.
I’ve basically ceased listening to music, so if this is a song, it’s fallen out of memory.
But anyway, It’s not fear, it’s exasperation at my limited daily free time being sectioned by someone else. The comic doesn’t reflect my personal feelings. (Pretty poem or lyrics)
Oh, it was impromtu poesy lol
In what world do you live that time sensitivity is never a thing? Also it’s just a helluva lot easier sometimes to talk for one minute instead of write for 10 and still get the wrong tone.
Never a thing? It seems like you’re conflating what I have to do with what I want to do. I want freedom to answer at the time of my choosing. Doesn’t mean I’ll always get it, but that’s what I prefer
Well the way you expressed your preference sounds like you don’t accept time sensitivity as a valid thing.
I’ll write with all the nuance of Michael meyers in an orphanage, if I think it’s a little funi
If you take 10 minutes to write, there is something wrong ig also, calls never last only 1 minute
I’ve definitely logged <1 minute calls. Usually to order take out.
Lotta pretending not to get the point to justify a phobia, but you do you.
Or that your point was fucking stupid and they were rightfully discounting it.
A third party voter AND afraid of answering the phone?! You must be exceedingly popular.
And establishment sheep and an ableist twat? You must be even more popular.
No one believes your ideals are real. You are a fraud.
Can always decline the call and text “I’ll call you back in x minutes,” giving you full control over your own life
But that requires a commitment! Can’t be put into that box!
But you still don’t know what they wanted, so the extra thinking time isn’t worth anything. (Unless we’re comparing to those nut jobs that just text “hey” and then wait without continuing to describe their matter)
I guess, but if it’s a friend, I feel rude treating them like a part of my workload
Except if I’m taking a two hour nap for sleep I desperately need. They can deal with voicemail.
I used to make fun of people who didn’t answer unknown numbers. Like they had something to hide. Like bill collectors were after them or something.
Then my number got into some kind of spammer / scammer database. Sometimes I was getting 10 calls a day from the same assholes spoofing different numbers.
Now pretty much all unknown callers go to voicemail. I have missed a couple of slightly important calls because of this. And those idiots didn’t leave a voicemail or follow up text. Like if you are a stranger making a legit call, then leave a fucking voicemail? What makes you think you are so important I will risk letting scammers know they have an active number? That YOU can’t be bothered to leave a voicemail to verify your identity? The world is all backwards now. Get off my lawn.
Yes why does nobody use voicemails? I never get it. Same number calls me 3x over the course of a week - brother if you can’t even leave a message for me to call you back or pick up the next time it can’t be that important.
Nowadays I use call screening on every call unless I know the person. If they say their name and what they want, it shows on my screen and I pick up if I’m interested. But most don’t do that and hang up as soon as the voice starts. Eh, write me an email then, I’m not gonna respond if you can’t even say your name.
I find checking voicemail so tedious and inconvenient as someone worth audio processing issues and the quality is usually so bad I have to listen to it several times and still can’t 100% understand. Voicemail transcription helps but I ain’t paying a subscription for that shit when that person can just send a text.
I don’t check my voicemails because I keep getting spammed by different numbers and they also leave voicemails.
I used to make semi-sensitve phone calls from my personal cell so of course I blocked my number. I would however leave a voicemail stating my name, my work location, that it was not an emergency and that I would call back again within 5 minutes. 90% of the time people answered the second call.
You might consider altering your voicemail recording to say that if you don’t have the number saved, a voicemail is required for a call back.
Mine is, “Due to a dramatic increase in scam callers, I don’t answer calls from numbers I don’t recognize. If this is a legitimate call, leave a message or send me a text and I’ll get back to you.”
God I hate text messaging. Instead of pissing away half a day or more sending text messages back and forth, call me and I will solve the problem you texted me about in less than a 1 minute. 5 minutes if you require a technical explanation.
Fookin’ waste of my time and day.
♪ Feeling unknown and you’re all alone
Flesh and bone by the telephone
Lift up the receiver, I’ll make you a believer ♪
Fuck cell phones and cell towers, unironically. Fundamentally incompatible with both software freedom and privacy.
I need your immediate answer. If I knew you’d answer straight away to a message I’d be fine with that, but I can’t be waiting for the zoomer on the other end to muscle up courage to check my message and maybe answer it at some point
Tbh you have the same issue with people in general with emails.
Tap for spoiler
we’re apparently all just painting hypotheticals/anecdotes so here’s mine
You probably didn’t need an immediate answer, but you wanted one. You also pressured me into making a quick decision based on 2 paragraphs of new information you just dumped on me, expecting me to not only remember all of it, but immediately understand and integrate it into my decision making process.
I’ll probably remember half of your info dump at best and the likelihood of you getting the answer you were hoping for just went down hard because I feel slighted by your ambush and because I don’t feel informed enough to give you a “yes”.
If I did say “yes” we might be in bigger trouble though, since I likely misunderstood or forgot something.Put it in writing and make both our lives easier.
You can still call if I didn’t reply after 10 minutes.
You can even include your deadline in the message if you have one.I’m sorry I inconvenienced you while I was down in the dig, waiting for the hole to fill up with mud. I should’ve taken off my gear and typed a whole ass messages, to be answered whenever, because you want to take your time.
Lol. Sometimes shit needs an answer right away
Absolutely agreed, there are situations that call for a call. Some people seem to think that’s every situation though.
It’s still faster for me to tell you that you are an idiot for calling me with a phone call you made to me than it is for me to type out a reply as a text message.
What is that saying, ‘lack of planning on your part doesn’t constitute an emergency on my part’ or something.
My friends know that they only call me if their house is actively on fire, they are being robbed at gunpoint, or they just won the lottery and want to split the winnings. Family also includes lunch/dinner plans. Only exception is when we have planned a call for a date and time, otherwise you’re greeting my voicemail. Landlines is the exact same situation. I might be taking a shower, asleep, taking a dump, getting freaky with a friend; it doesn’t matter. Leave a text message and I’ll get back as soon as I’m done crying from taco tuesday, or finishing waking up the neighbors with moans and screams, or whatever else.
Email is ‘sometime today’ communication, and gets handled at the beginning or end of the day, or whenever I’m on the can. Anyone expecting a rapid response via email is a proper dunce.
These emergencies come up because the planners (the people I’m trying to urgently reach) haven’t planned properly. Everything is fine if the situation on the ground is the same as they think in the city office or the consulting firm, but once something unexpected comes up that hasn’t been accounted for, I need to reach certain people, quick. We could make decisions on our own but the that’s often specifically not allowed without consulting those certain people…
So plan better or be around to pick up the phone.
weird I’m an elder millennial and you just sound unprepared. do I need to hold your hand? why can’t you find the information you need yourself with the resources everyone else uses? why are you always in this state on immediacy? why is your failing someone else’s fault because they didn’t answer “immediately”? why do you sound like my abusive father? it’s almost like you don’t think ahead and blame others for your shortcomings. I have a shit memory and ADHD and I don’t need to “get someone on the horn”.
git gud n00b
Boy a lot of projection going on here, lol.
There are many many pieces of information that you can’t just Google/LLM bro. Sometimes (though usually not often), that info needs to be known urgently. Expectation of many jobs.
So you need someone else to do your job, too?!
Uh no, different people have different responsibilities and ownerships of parts of a process. That is a hallmark of any job where you work in a team. Occasionally, that elevates to an urgent level where a phone call is necessary to ensure a loop is closed.
that’s what it sounds like to me too. I can feel the Peter principal through the screen
I should’ve brought my laptop to the bottom of the dig and studied a whole ass different profession so someone who has actually studied and works to provide the info I need doesn’t have to answer the scary phone lol
“who should we hire to answer emergency technical calls?”
“hold on let me call someone to find out… no one answerd”
“we need to act IMMEDIATELY! just hire anyone”
::hires phone phobic person, no training, no probationary period, full send::
It’s not a specific emergency phone operator position, rather just the relevant consultant or someone from the city. It’s their fuck up if they aren’t hiring someone who can actually handle the calls.
My mate fell in the acid tank.
I am calling you. Immediately.
I swear if you don’t call emergency services immediately I’m going to never stop bringing it up
what sort of friendships do you have where you’re routinely running into extremely time sensitive important decisions?
sounds like you just plan poorly tbh
if this is about work, then same goes. phone calls are undocumented and I’m not gonna give you any proper answer via phone on the spot unless it’s a very simple yes/no
Usually it’s a case of documentation and plans missing something you notice at the actual site/during digging. Could also just stop working waiting for answer to a message (lol and how many days does that take) but that’s going to cost everyone a lot and can even be dangerous.
It’s always the same with people who do the planning and people actually working at the site…
“We have an issue, this and this are here instead of here and now this doesn’t work”
“Well they should be there, have you checked the documentation?”
“It’s not mentioned”
“Well something has gone wrong, it should be there and mentioned”
Lol no shit but it isn’t and now we need to know how to proceed or shit gets fucked
you know what, I’m with you on that. some people deserve to be called on the spot
not me, though. very very rarely is it warranted.
I’ll give an example of how this typically goes in my experience. yesterday I wasted several hours investigating a “critical issue” on site. it turns out that this issue was addressed 6 months ago, and well documented by email and chat, with handoff of responsibilities to the appropriate parties. those parties didn’t do fucking shit with that information. so yesterday the guys on site call in about 10 of us to have a group call, and we’re all just sitting there wasting time waiting for files to open so that the designers can look into the issue. lots of man-minutes wasted in that call alone, when the guys on site could have just sent a message saying “hey this thing is over here instead of over there where it was expected, what’s the deal with that?”, and we would have gotten back in an hour with what was going on. but instead, we all sit through as a group on this very important call listening to somebody explain something that they clearly don’t know the context for, because their own superiors neglected to give them the information on it. so it’s up to us to dig back through over half a year of documentation to come to the conclusion that this is the same issue that we already preemptively addressed six months ago, and here’s all the information that we handed off at the time that your department did nothing with and fucked over the guys on site by not telling them shit.
so yeah, don’t fucking call me. send me a message and I’ll get back to you with a concise response, or call your own superiors because they’re the ones who fucked up and I have the documentation showing that. you guys just set back three other projects for this bullshit. repeat several times a week and oh now my week is spent and new projects are going to have shit quality stuff in them because I had to spend my time dealing with bullshit.
so that’s my pov lol. I’ve been trying to spend time designing a new project every day this week, and I’ve spent a grand total of 3 hours on it so far because of shit that I keep getting dragged into, about 50% of which is dumb shit from somebody else not doing their job
Sounds like a you problem.
It’s potentially an issue for everyone if the work is delayed. Me, others working the site, people living there, the city if they don’t want the delay etc.
Yep, reading your other posts about it, this is definitely one circumstance when someone needs to pick up the damn phone. I was falsely limiting my thoughts on the subject to casual situations, not serious projects like the ones you work on.
For casual situations and non-urgent stuff I agree that there’s usually no need to insist on a call
I like the phone. I was born in the wrong time. I miss hanging out in the kitchen, twirling the curly phone cord, just chattin’.
Come on, y’all, buck up. The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!
I got a buddy who texts me “Give me a call when you get a chance”
Always allows me to finish up my work and call them when the time suits me.
Meanwhile, coworkers just call me a minute before I’m supposed to go into a meeting and expect to have my attention for a half hour. It’s on the calendar you dipshit.
Indeed, but only with a rotary dial.
Hell yeah.
Macaroni is calling.
every time i am trying to fast
I’ve slowly gone from being in this meme to being the person that starts calling especially for things that are even a little time sensitive or spontaneous. I will generally only do it with my closest friends except for the rare occasion, and family and no longer feel that way if they call me back. If they don’t pick up I of course don’t take it personally and respect my friends that have said they just prefer texting, but I’ve found since making this change I feel closer to people and have looked forward to chatting with them and hearing their voice.
People afraid to talk over the phone, but also complaining about being lonely. Time to step up the social game or become grass-eaters.
I downvote cause I feel concerned about this.
Hi, I know this is just a shitpost, but I feel the need to say something serious about it for a sec. I find the image unsettling. Deliberately violating a child’s personal space boundaries like that, where they can’t escape the situation, for a pic and a laugh at their expense, I see as a form of child abuse. Like, if you look at the kid’s face, you should be able to see it. Right? It just feels bad to see a pic like that being used as a meme template. And I’m not saying anyone is a bad person for using or enjoying the meme/template. I’m just asking and hoping that you please think on it and reconsider how you feel about it.
Aww c’mon, what’s the worst that could happen?! He gets bit by a camel? Man dies of camel bite in Ahmedabad … oh wait
He just wants to know what day it is
You think the person taking a pic deliberately lured the donkey/camel in there?
I hadn’t considered that, but it’s possible. The vehicle is parked with the window open while the person in the driver’s seat is taking pics of the child hiding from the large animal whose head is entirely inside the vehicle. So yeah, I can see how the driver could have also intentionally lured the animal to approach in the first place. But regardless, they seem to be intentionally abusing that child. Otherwise, why leave the car parked with the window open as a large animal approaches, and why take pics of the child instead of helping them? Like, if it somehow happened so quickly that they couldn’t have prevented it, why start taking pics instead of pushing the animal back out? Why not drive away?
It looks like a stock photo and likely staged.
Doesn’t look that way to me, but I’m not here to argue about it. Idk what else to say, so I’ll probably just leave it there and hope my original comment was worth sharing in the first place.
Autism and crippling shyness, yeah
You just need the right soundboard. This is a personal favorite: https://soundboard.com/sb/angryblackguy1.
Don’t caaall my fuckin’ house
🏆
I got a call today from Ireland
I immediately knew that it was a scam, especially when the guy on the other end was speaking Chinese
I just repeatedly burped into the phone until he got pissed off enough to hang up on me
For a while I kept getting a phone call around like 8am while I was at work id just let it ring because it was so bizarre. Finally one time I decided to just one word text back saying they had the wrong number at like around 4am and finally got a response saying it was some uncle my mom had given my number to for him to get in contact with her for some reason
That’s hilarious
We never knew who might be calling. Now the phones tell you who is calling before you answer and still some people are freaked out. I don’t get it, but I think I’m becoming that way myself.
if somebody calls me and I have their number saved in my phone: 50/50 if I pick up, depending on how social vs anxious I’m feeling.
if somebody calls me and I don’t have their number saved in my phone: block, forget, move on.
Presumably, if they call, you’re in some sort of personal relationship with the person, so whether or not you answer says something about how much you value that relationship. No? You trust that they only call if it’s something important.
I only refuse calls from unknown numbers, never from someone in my contacts.
