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So, the phone at my house rang this Sunday morning at 7 AM. Which would be an acceptable reason for such a call at that time of day?
A) Being unable to perform scheduled lectoring duties at church that same morning at the 9AM mass, due to an illness or family emergency, and you need to call the schedule coordinator because you couldn't find anyone else who could fill in for you.
B) Being unable to perform scheduled lectoring duties at church that same morning at the 9AM mass, because you're at the airport about to leave on a vacation that has been planned for the last two weeks (or probably much more), and you couldn't find anyone else who could fill in for you during the whole previous week, because you were too busy to make any calls at all, or even to write any emails.
As a result, everyone in my house was woken up, and now we're all damn cranky. Because, you guessed it, the reason that some little teenaged twit called this morning was reason (B). Don't the young ones these days learn any common courtesy?
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quote:Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: B) Being unable to perform scheduled lectoring duties at church that same morning at the 9AM mass, because you're at the airport about to leave on a vacation that has been planned for the last two weeks (or probably much more), and you couldn't find anyone else who could fill in for you during the whole previous week, because you were too busy to make any calls at all, or even to write any emails.
sounds like this scheduled lectoring duties, if it was a teen to do this, is more akin to EMI or extra duty, in the service. Too Busy = Didn't bother, since i'm at the Airport already.... I'd kick his ass, personally but that's Christian Me speaking .
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I sometimes get phone calls at 3 AM from drunken nitwit's trying to order a Pizza. Sometimes I tell them to Leave me the Fuck alone and learn to read a phone book. and sometimes I play along and pretend to take thier order, and if thier stupid enough to phone me again complaining about thier pizza not arriving, THEN I tell them to Leave me the fuck alone and learn to read a phone book.
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One does have the option of refusing to answer the phone at unreasonable hours. More often than not, that's what I do.
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Just don't have a phone. The wife and I only have a cell and we turn it off at nite. Solves that problem before it begins.
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It usually takes less time to answer the phone and send em an F-bomb than to let the phone ring 6 or 7 times while I'm trying to sleep. I wish it was as simple as turning off a cell phone...
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quote:Originally posted by Pensive's Wetness: sounds like this scheduled lectoring duties, if it was a teen to do this, is more akin to EMI or extra duty, in the service. Too Busy = Didn't bother, since i'm at the Airport already.... I'd kick his ass, personally but that's Christian Me speaking . [/QB]
Well yeah, except that this was purely a volunteer job. (I just used the word "duties" because once they volunteered for it, it was their responsibility.) If you know you can't do something that you volunteered to do, then you tell whoever's in charge as far in advance as you can, not at 7AM on the same morning when you're at the fucking airport heading to Florida or whatever.
As for answering the phone versus ignoring it � have you ever experienced the adrenaline rush of the phone waking you up early in the morning? For me, at least, it's even more effective than my alarm clock (though I expect overuse would lessen the effect). Once it rings, there's no reason to not answer, IMO.
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You could always make your lecture on something like responsibility or, you know....courtesy.
Or get radical and dwell on forgivness in the face of such obtuse behavior.
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You serve on a 15 member Democratic endorsement committee and are told to keep quiet about who is endorsed for a week... and end up telling a candidate that they got the endorsment after the meeting.
Thanks a lot bitch for keeping quiet...
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Well, that's more of a blabbermouth kinda thing. I have one for ya though: I deal with morons too busy talking on their cell phones to pay attention while I'm giving them a bid for hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars in printing. Big suprise when they show up (as today) and their end-product they signed off on is not what they had in mind....even though they recieved an exact proof of the completed order.
Really, I want a cell-jammer more than anything else.
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I despise getting phone calls that, when you answer, a computer immediately puts you on hold to wait for the "next available agent". I usually hang up because that's just rude. If you want to talk to me, then dial the number yourself! Occasionally, I like to mess with them since the wait is only a few seconds. Since they usually come on saying "Hello?", I'll answer with something like "Is Bob there?". Or to get them really panicky, something like "96 Rock you're on the air!"
quote:Originally posted by bX: One does have the option of refusing to answer the phone at unreasonable hours. More often than not, that's what I do.
True, but when you get a phone call in the wee small hours it might be something serious that you don't want to ignore...it may just be me having a bit of a pessimistic outlook, but when the phone rings at those times my first thought is "What's gone wrong?". I just don't like the idea of turning up to some relative's deathbed ten minutes late and apologizing to a weeping great aunt Ida that I thought it was a crank call!
I would tend to agree though, the guy should have sorted out the cover before he left - and to call you at that time was out of order.
quote:Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: I had some twit ring my buzzer at 3:30 in the morning.
The buzzer in my flat has a button that blocks anyone from buzzing my door for six hours. When the engineer was installing it he said it was a new feature to give people in flats some peace in case any local neds thought it would be fun to press buttons and wake people up. The technology exists! Seek it out for your door.
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My interactions with cold callers have becmoe a popular spectator sport at work. Highlights include:-
"No, I can't be bothered. Fuck off. *click*" "Judging by your accent, your name is no more Peter Smith than mine is Shirmanesh Vijaygupta. Do try harder. *click*"
And then there was the IT survey I actually agreed to participate in (it was a slow, boring Friday) then spent 20 minutes answering "No Opinion" to every single question. . .
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