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I must prefer corresponding by email -

Email doen't interrupt you in the midst of something and demand to be answered immediately.

If somebody is eating while emailing you don't get it in your ear.

You can't send attachments via telephone.

You can't read a phone call (was this maybe an advertising slogan for sending letters?)

You can do other things before replying to an email.

You can't copy folk in on a phone call.

You can forward an email to another department, who can then forward it to yet another department, who can finally forward it to the correct department without the original sender complaining about 'hold music' or being transferred.

― Rumpie, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 08:41 (twenty years ago)

Email. Always. Especially at the office - I've got to the point where I've quietly disconnected my phone. So far no one has noticed...

I don't have email at home, so it's a bit harder. But that's what text messages are for, ha ha!

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 08:46 (twenty years ago)

If you want something done that isn't particularly pleasant, phone them. A phone call is a lot more difficult to delete.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 08:47 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha, I'm always the person who is being asked the unpleasant thing, hence why it's unplugged. ESPECIALLY when I have c*nts saying things like This needs to be sorted quickly. Someone has to take ownership at me.

YOU KNOW WHAT?!?!? NO ONE NEEDS TO TAKE "OWNERSHIP" OF IT, SOMEONE NEEDS TO JUST GET THEIR HEAD DOWN AND BLOODY WELL DO IT!!!

If you want it to be me getting my head down and doing it, you have to wait your turn like everyone else. Otherwise shut up with your endless emails and just do it.

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 08:49 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, that should have gone on the "bitch about your annoying colleagues" thread, really.

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 08:50 (twenty years ago)

It's so much easier to deal with 'irate' customers via email too.

― Rumpie, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 08:52 (twenty years ago)

Exactly. There are certain things that, if said to me in person or over the phone, would send me into an utter rage. When they are said to me via email, I can let them sit until I'm calm enough to respond and then respond calmly and politely.

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 08:56 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeh, I prefer GETTING stuff by email, but as for hassling other people who aren't doing their job, hpone calls are the way forward.

Not as good as actually going up and talking to them though.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 08:58 (twenty years ago)

i'm the sort of person who doesn't do any work, so i prefer emails.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 08:59 (twenty years ago)

I get this really irritating email from one of my customer's every week saying "can you phone me so that I can pay you."

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:00 (twenty years ago)

emails take too long, i end up spending most of the time checking grammar and spelling before sending them off. just phone em ferchristsake. They are useful for releasing rant rage, by typing up what you really want to say only to delete the whole thing by the time you've finished because you've actually calmed down and forgiven the other person.

at work i only use emails for people who i know will be busy (and they can attend to my mail in their own time), for group messages, and for passing on documents.

besides, we now have an internal message system and that's working fine for most of us.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:00 (twenty years ago)

With phones, you have to make contact with another human being = DUD

― BarabadabaDadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:01 (twenty years ago)

Most of our customers and other departments fall outwith the category of walking distance.

People can't tell if you're clenching your teeth and spitting nails via email. You can modulate your tone much more easily. All too often on the phone I sound as though I'm talking through wired-up jaws.

― Rumpie, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:03 (twenty years ago)

"Can I speak to Mr G Staid, please?"

At least you can delete spam email straightway, unlike nincompoop cold calls.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)

Phones are best for complaining about stuff, tho the best of all for that is LETTERS

― BarabadabaDadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)

Dear Donovan,

I am writing to complain about your autobiography, which is needlessly otiose.

Thank you for your help in this urgent matter.

Yours etc.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)

mind you i wouldn't be able to use 'pwned' in a phone call, not effectively anyway.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

email email email. for getting and receiving. for any and all types of correspondence. for all the reasons already listed.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

phoning just feels fucking archaic. people have computers! email has been invented! there is simply NO NEED to do that rubbish old-fashioned inconvenient telephone crap any more.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

also, that thing when close friends tell you: "listen, if you're ever feeling down and need someone to talk to, call me any time, it doesn't matter if it's three in the morning" - well it DOES matter and I would not suggest trying it, as you will get the invariable response of "gurglegurgle d'you know what fucken time it is cunt?" and suchlike.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha

― BarabadabaDadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

"listen, if you're ever feeling down and need someone to talk to, email me"

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:25 (twenty years ago)

i'm encouraged to use phone at work more than email, and i do get more work completion from speaking on the phone. like someone said above, emails are too easily ignored. if i've not had an answer after weeks of repeated sent emails then it's taking the piss and a phone call is the only option.

as for mates? a text message will suffice, about 99% of my friends don't have a computer.

marcello otm.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:27 (twenty years ago)

*emails shoulder to cry on*

OUT OF OFFICE:AUTOREPLY

(xpost)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:27 (twenty years ago)

I've always hated using phones, so e-mails are great. But no one ever replies (including me).

― jellybean (jellybean), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

I've got emails in my inbox dating from bloody 2003 that I've still to reply to! Terrible, eh?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:30 (twenty years ago)

I am envious of people who are allowed to use aim at work to get in touch with colleagues.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

Blackberries are stupid. You have a phone in your hand. It is much easier to dial 10 digits than it is to type several paragraphs back and forth. Get over the novelty.

― Purple People Hater, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

Blackberries ?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

I still perversely perve over them. Sigh.

I had to plug my phone back in this afternoon because I had to ring Anna and my mobile is out of credit. Bah!

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

But you can! There was one time I neglected to call you. But apart from that, you know you can! :-) I only reserve this for very close friends and I count Marcello as a "friend for life who can always call me."

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.atcommunications.co.uk/images/colour%20blackberry%20above.JPG

Blackberry. I so want one. But it's not really possible here in Belgium.

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

I much prefer email. I don't generally enjoy talking on the phone, although I do like getting calls from long-lost friends. Half the time I can't understand the other person because they're calling crackle crackle on their khhhhhzzz cell phone. I get so tired of asking "what?" that I just pretend I can hear them. I've probably uttered many inappropriate responses as a result.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

email if it's not urgent. email + phonecall if it's urgent. email + facetoface if it's really urgent and they're nearby

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/villagepeople.html

― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

email >>>> phone >!> texting

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

Right now, phone, as far as personal things.

For some foolish reason I asked a woman I've been on a few dates with for her email address after the latest meeting. She flirtatiously said something about "too many lines of communication" and how I shouldn't "abuse it." I emailed her the next day, then got a response the day after that.

Definitely taking things from phone only to email then phone was a speedbump.

― scrimhaw1837 (son_of_scrimshaw), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

Argh argh argh, even for personal stuff, I just hate phoning so much I'll rarely do it unless I know it's not going to get done otherwise.

I mean, with a boy/potential date... I would give him my email address rather than my phone. Or if I do give my phone number, I'd let him know that it's best to send me texts.

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

-- nathalie, a bum like you (stevienixe...), October 26th, 2005.

ah yes - but next year you'll probably be (waken) up most days at three in the morning, so in terms of nappy-changing etc. I suspect it will be a case of "how many As in AAAAAAARGH!" ;-)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 27 October 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)

apparently emails from a blackberry are "impersonal"

― sub-dwayne nelson (dr g), Thursday, 27 October 2005 07:03 (twenty years ago)

I love email; or rather I love email when it is crafted in the form of a letter. I like to treat personal email as if it were a hand-written letter rather than a text message (although the text message style email is good for communicating organisation).

I dislike the phone intensely, I find it very intrusive. I see no shame in not answering the phone when I don't want to or to people I don't wish to speak to at that moment in time. I should get CLI for my home phone on this basis, although no one actually calls me on my home phone. At work I try and presage any telephone converstaion with an email to organise a time when it would be mutually beneficial and so that any information needed for the conversation can be gathered. Makes it much more efficient.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 27 October 2005 07:18 (twenty years ago)

xxpost. Well, I already wake up already at 4 am each day! Or is that night? Whatever. I see it as preparation for next year. But, hey, remember you know I'm on the other side of the phone line. :-)

I'm not much of a *phoner* though. I mean, I don't like making calls to clients or wholesalers, I prefer emails. I wouldn't really call it a *phobia* because as soon as I dial the number, I'm fine. But I usually postpone making important calls, it's really crap. :-(

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Thursday, 27 October 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

Ed is OTM

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 27 October 2005 07:23 (twenty years ago)

I must say I do the same, Nathalie. Anything said to a supplier or a customer, (or important internal stuff), has to be backed up with an email anyway so why bother with the call at all.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 27 October 2005 07:25 (twenty years ago)

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