Sometimes I think that in timezone-distributed corporations it’s a not so subtle way to procrastinate at scale. You start with “Hello” when the other person has

Sometimes I think that in timezone-distributed corporations it’s a not so subtle way to procrastinate at scale. You start with “Hello” when the other person has 4AM. When they answer with a hello of their own, it’s past working hours for you. Then you follow with “can I ask you a quick question”, and by the time you receive your answer it’s already weekend. With skill, you can have not one but several concurrent conversations, each just like this one. All the time you’re working hard and waiting for answers, of course, dreading to think just how difficult would the life be if all this got condensed into 15 minutes as it ought to.