You are telling me there are people out there who when they want to make progress on something that is blocked by another person, or where whenever some kind of thinking is best aided by another person, just… wait for hours or days at a time until they respond? Juggling 15-20 different messaging threads without getting any focused work done, instead of simply calling the person, resolving the issue and moving on? Do these people spend most of their days just waiting on other people to get back to them, or being in pre-scheduled calls all day that are scheduled for 30 minutes despite being resolvable in a 5-minute phone call?
I love spontaneous unscheduled phone calls!
You are telling me there are people out there who when they want to make progress on something that is blocked by another person, or where whenever some kind of thinking is best aided by another person, just… wait for hours or days at a time until they respond? Juggling 15-20 different messaging threads without getting any focused work done, instead of simply calling the person, resolving the issue and moving on? Do these people spend most of their days just waiting on other people to get back to them, or being in pre-scheduled calls all day that are scheduled for 30 minutes despite being resolvable in a 5-minute phone call?
No, we don’t wait hours or days, we text you asking, “Hey, when would be a good time to follow up?”
But like, they then might take hours to respond, or the scheduled call might happen hours or days later? That’s what I am referring to.
Also to be clear, this is all in jest. I have lived in both cultures. I have updated towards phone call world over time.