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I'm sure you are familiar with the idea that family members often don't know your schedule, so they can't/don't, say, decide not to call just to shoot the breez
by Poiesis 16y ago
I'm sure you are familiar with the idea that family members often don't know your schedule, so they can't/don't, say, decide not to call just to shoot the breeze in the middle of your presentation.
Do you handle this by letting every call from family interrupt whatever you're doing, however important? It's mostly impossible to determine the importance of a call before answering it in my experience.
- patio11 16y agoI let them make the call (literally). I have a phone secretary (Twilio app). It parcels the day out into ... and you just got bumped by Mom in the middle of this post... times when I'm available, sleeping, and busy. If I'm available, it puts the caller through to my house or cell as appropriate. If I'm sleeping, it gently reminds them what time it is in Japan and asks if I should get woken up. If I am at work/etc, it tells them and asks if I should get taken out of whatever I'm doing. v1.0 of this app was on my blog a long time ago. I've enhanced it a little bit over the last couple of months, but as a tech demo for the phenomenal life-enhancing power of Twilio it still works: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/01/15/deploying-sinatra-on-ubuntu-in-which-i-employ-a-secretary/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/01/15/deploying-sinatra-on-ubu...