This is such a boomer comment. Literally nothing is better as a phone call. Having to deal with shitty connections, accents, not being able to think for a moment to prepare a reply, not being able to reference anything, not being able to proof read your response. It’s absurd.
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snooggums@kbin.social 11 months agoSome things just lead to a bunch of questions that are annoyingly slow to sort out via email. Or the sender is clearly starting with a wrong assumption that will make any text communication come across the wrong way and a phone call could sort that out quickly.
Do you respond well to an email reply that asks to do a call instead?
Fal@yiffit.net 11 months ago
snooggums@kbin.social 11 months ago
I guess I just work with more complicated topics.
Fal@yiffit.net 11 months ago
Yeah. That’s why the most complicated topics, like astrophysics, are always described orally, rather than writing written reports
snooggums@kbin.social 11 months ago
You know they discuss things orally at conferences and while reviewing those written descriptions right?
Right?
Arthur_Leywin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Making an appointment for a call is the way I would do it. Otherwise I’ll just assume it’s spam because most calls are.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Asking for a call to clarify would be a much better approach. I should preface that I am in IT. My workplace had no help tickets or IT help voip lines when I got here. I worked very hard to be able to take these calls all day. So I have less time for phone calls than the average office employee. I’m like Help Desk 1-3 and SME for a few programs at my workplace.