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I find calendly depersonalizing and extremely insulting. I.e. the shift of power when someone says "Hey, let's find a time to chat" and the answer is "Here is m

I find calendly depersonalizing and extremely insulting. I.e. the shift of power when someone says "Hey, let's find a time to chat" and the answer is "Here is my calendly link, good luck". I usually break off the conversation there.

Yiin 5y ago
I am slightly confused, why is saving time for both parties considered insulting?
- hansel_der 5y ago
  my take from parents post is that he finds "the shift in power" insulting. while i agree that saving time is a worthwhile goal, i can sympathise with the unhappiness over beeing deferred to an (online) form for stuff that could be tackeld here and now.
  - neoncontrails 5y ago
    This unhappiness seems to me why it's so important Calendly exists: if it's not important enough to merit a visit to an online form, it's sure as heck not important enough to merit interrupting my flow.
neoncontrails 5y ago
You're the second person I've heard say this lately. To me, using Calendly feels like demurring to the reality that you have times that work for you, these are the times that work for me, my respect for you is so strong: pick any one of them, and I'll be there. If anything, the posturing seems submissive.
- kortilla 5y ago
  Nope, because if you are a heavy calendar user there are tons of things that could be trivially shuffled. A calendly link is “I will fit you in only if it’s extremely convenient for me”.
  - 2arrs2ells 5y ago
    “Here’s the link to my calendly. If you don’t see anything that works in the next week or so, just send me over a few times that would work for you & I can reshuffle things to make one of them work.”
    - ivan_gammel 5y ago
      Exactly. From my experience Calendly works 99% of time, and remaining 1% is where it is better to handle it personally than through PA.
ivan_gammel 5y ago
If someone says "Hey, let's find a time to chat", would you refer this person to your PA to schedule a call? I hope not, and just like normal people you would look at your calendar and find time slot right away. This is not a use case for Calendly. It is good for asynchronous conversations. Breaking the conversation at the point, where you are being offered to pick a convenient time looks like a good question for AITA on Reddit.

Yiin 5y ago

I am slightly confused, why is saving time for both parties considered insulting?

hansel_der 5y ago
my take from parents post is that he finds "the shift in power" insulting. while i agree that saving time is a worthwhile goal, i can sympathise with the unhappiness over beeing deferred to an (online) form for stuff that could be tackeld here and now.
- neoncontrails 5y ago
  This unhappiness seems to me why it's so important Calendly exists: if it's not important enough to merit a visit to an online form, it's sure as heck not important enough to merit interrupting my flow.

neoncontrails 5y ago

You're the second person I've heard say this lately. To me, using Calendly feels like demurring to the reality that you have times that work for you, these are the times that work for me, my respect for you is so strong: pick any one of them, and I'll be there. If anything, the posturing seems submissive.

kortilla 5y ago
Nope, because if you are a heavy calendar user there are tons of things that could be trivially shuffled. A calendly link is “I will fit you in only if it’s extremely convenient for me”.
- 2arrs2ells 5y ago
  “Here’s the link to my calendly. If you don’t see anything that works in the next week or so, just send me over a few times that would work for you & I can reshuffle things to make one of them work.”
  - ivan_gammel 5y ago
    Exactly. From my experience Calendly works 99% of time, and remaining 1% is where it is better to handle it personally than through PA.

ivan_gammel 5y ago

If someone says "Hey, let's find a time to chat", would you refer this person to your PA to schedule a call? I hope not, and just like normal people you would look at your calendar and find time slot right away. This is not a use case for Calendly. It is good for asynchronous conversations. Breaking the conversation at the point, where you are being offered to pick a convenient time looks like a good question for AITA on Reddit.