Just got another phone call that went like this.
"Hello, Mr. Knight, I'm Miss Jones with the Department of Redundancy Department. We're registering someone to attend your conference in September. I'm calling to let you know that we'll be sending you a fax later this afternoon. Goodbye".
OK. This caller has managed to waste her own time -- and, more importantly, mine -- by calling me to tell me something that I'm already going to know pretty soon anyway. They did not request any additional information or anything else like that. To me, this means that the phone call is, in Star Trek parlance, "dunsel" -- it serves no useful purpose. And what really surprises me is that I get calls like this all the time. To me, this would be like me calling Shaw or Denise and saying, "Hello, this is Parrish. I'm still living in Silver Spring, and my name hasn't changed. Christmas is still on December 25th. Goodbye."
Why do people do things that are completely pointless and that just waste everyone's time?
Posted by Zathras at August 1, 2003 03:18 PMMaybe she called so you can make sure the fax machine is up & accepting calls? I know a lot of places I've had to fax have told me to give them an approximate time to expect the call, because otherwise they'd either have the fax off, unattended, or have the line tied up doing other things.
Then again, it might just be a social thing.
Posted by: Moggy at August 1, 2003 04:56 PM*Why do people do things that are completely pointless and that just waste everyone's time?*
You mean, for example, like me dating a b*tch that I knew back in college? Gee, I dunno . . .
Just came back from Brat. - feel a shitloads better.
Posted by: Shaw at August 3, 2003 07:27 PM"You mean, for example, like me dating a b*tch that I knew back in college? Gee, I dunno . . ."
Nah, you had to give it a shot, otherwise how would you know it wouldn't work, right? You might have spent the rest of your life convinced you missed out on being with an incredibly cool woman -- instead, you can move on knowing things can only get better from here. (Or so I try to tell myself when I consider the years I wasted on my last relationship. ymmv...)
Posted by: Moggy at August 3, 2003 09:08 PMYea - well, that's true. I honestly have not thought about it at all this past week - and I feel much better 'cuz of it. But yea, at least I tried. Just glad I never got married to her...which I almost did, I believe.
Anyhow - I'm callin' Parrish now just to leave that whole redundant on top of rededundant
Posted by: Shaw at August 3, 2003 09:28 PM#~!$!$!$!$
So, Parrish actually ends up answering the phone (for once).
Can't even play the tinest crank right anymore.
Posted by: Shaw at August 3, 2003 09:58 PMWell, of course he answered it...his blog emails comments from us directly to him as soon as we hit the Post button. He had warning. *snicker*
Besides, doesn't he usually answer the phone if he's in? (He always does when I'm hanging out there.) It might just be that he's not usually there...in which case what you need to do is be on IM in away mode, so you can see if he's on one of his IM accounts or not. Or just call when it's blatantly obvious he won't be there, like noon on a Monday. *grin*
Posted by: Moggy at August 3, 2003 11:50 PMI just thought: it's Sunday. It's night. The ABC Sunday Night Movie is on. He's gotta be away.
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Posted by: Shaw at August 4, 2003 12:00 AM