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• kayohtie@pawb.social ⁨49⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I hate random calls but I’m also usually very time efficient with answering things, so despite my own usual aversion to calls I find work is the only place I’ll ask if I can quick demo/show something to get input. Lasts a total of 3 minutes, keeps me on-topic to my work, and takes less time than waiting for their slow typing back while I’ll be distracted in typical ADHD fashion and start trying to discover if my laptop dock can make my hand cream melt.

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• wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I can literally feel myself deflating when I get these, like it’s a huge involuntary sigh accompanied by the classic heart-sinking…

  …followed by a deep breath and a “Sure! 👍”

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• Localhorst86@feddit.org ⁨47⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  “Yeah, so I’ve got an issue with my computer, and I am getting an error message”

  “What does the error message say?”

  “Dont really know, lots of gibberish”

  “Would you mind reading that gibberish to me”

  “I’ll send you a screenshot”

  “Allright, I’ll look at it once I got it, and come back to you”

  At which point I will hang up, wait 10 minutes for their email, look if its something urgent and if it isn’t, wait about an hour or two before emailing them back my answer.

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• IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Either send me an email and you’ll get an answer when you get an answer, or come see me in person. Phone calls and text messages are annoying as shit.

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  • obinice@lemmy.world ⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    How is a phone call any different from speaking in person?

    You’re talking to each other, only the phone call is more convenient as it can be placed from anywhere :-D

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    • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works ⁨40⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      the phone call is more convenient as it can be placed from anywhere

      And that’s half the problem. My job deals with things that physically exist, and if you can’t be bothered to get your ass in here to actually look at it, I can’t be bothered to deal with whatever your problem of the day is (yes I’m getting bitter about engineers sitting at home telling me “BuT iT wOrKs iN CAD”).

      Also, in person conversations are far more effective than phone conversations. Human communication is far more than just purely verbal.

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨49⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I’ve upvoted you but it’s different for me. I hate ad hoc calls but have no issue if someone comes over to my desk. Terrible is I’m basically remote full time…

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  • FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    How is an email that different from a text? aside from desktop acess I guess.

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    • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Email tends to have less expectation for immediate response and doesn’t have unavoidable “message read” notifications. Most importantly, in my experience at least, people tend to put more details into an email. Texts, teams messages, etc seem to cause people to try and speak in single sentences, and then I have to play 21 questions to drag the info out of them.

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• cogman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I had that recently. The call and meeting “here’s x, can you do x?” Me: “yes”.

  Was a bit crazy.

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