> Solution: If you have to tell me something really urgent, you can leave a message
If it's urgent, the caller needs (or maybe just wants) to have it passed
synchronously. Text message is asynchronous, so there's no indication of
when you have received the message. This is totally unsuitable for urgent
things. You got it backwards.
> Many phone calls I receive are for planning a meeting, or asking me to do something. But callers seem not to realize that [...]
It's your problem, not the caller's. Buy a tablet, or a bluetooth headset if
you resist device dedicated to planning. Or insist on asynchronous
communication to schedule things (this is actually mentioned in "solution"
section).
dozzie|10 years ago
If it's urgent, the caller needs (or maybe just wants) to have it passed synchronously. Text message is asynchronous, so there's no indication of when you have received the message. This is totally unsuitable for urgent things. You got it backwards.
> Many phone calls I receive are for planning a meeting, or asking me to do something. But callers seem not to realize that [...]
It's your problem, not the caller's. Buy a tablet, or a bluetooth headset if you resist device dedicated to planning. Or insist on asynchronous communication to schedule things (this is actually mentioned in "solution" section).