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>"Email is probably most invasive form of communication yet devised" Oh, I find unscheduled phone calls much more invasive. They require that I make myself av
by esw 13y ago
>"Email is probably most invasive form of communication yet devised"
Oh, I find unscheduled phone calls much more invasive. They require that I make myself available at that moment, and if I'm not in an immediate position to talk, then I need to similarly inconvenience the caller when I return the call.
- lostlogin 13y agoYeah, the writer of that statement hasn't done years of on call work. If there is any form of communication more invasive than your third phone call after midnight (and before 6am) after weeks or months of the same, I'd be surprised. Instantly awake, instantly angry. Have a civil conversation, hang up the phone and swear as you get dressed, drive in to work swearing, swear as you work, drive home, swear into bed, rinse and repeat. And if one of the calls is poorly worded or a mistake (>>oh good, you're awake<< or >>I was after the house surgeon, not you<<), the instant ability to conjure up new sarcastic comments was amazing. I quit and became mostly human again.