• thatradomguy@lemmy.world
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    My manager is like this. I don’t know how to him it’s easier to talk about something technical over the phone rather than in chat or email. When talking to people about IT crap, you have to sugar coat and use euphemisms which I don’t have to do as much in email and the benefit with email is I can convey literally what I’m trying to do. My manager just doesn’t want to fucking ready my emails.

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    It almost never is. Plus I probably have to write the info down anyways so just send me a text. If you have to call to explain it, I’ll call you.

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    7 hours ago

    If they need to call me it’s either actually complicated, or (much more likely) they haven’t spent enough time to refine their idea to where they could just write it down.

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    I used to be like this, then realize when I die, all these moments will just be erased to history, so I’m like, whatever man. Can’t escape it, banking problems, job interview calls, etc…

    But online multiplay game voice chat? Nah fuck that, aint touching that radioactive shit, I aint playing multiplayer if that’s a requirement. I’ll die on this hill.

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      6 hours ago

      If you have a male sounding voice and you are open and friendly and communicate well, gaming voice chats can be a good experience, depending on the game. Mostly they aren’t, though.

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      Honestly today I’m mostly thinking “I have other shit to worry about, like the pie in the oven”. Ain’t nobody got time for worrying about phone calls

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    9 hours ago

    “did you leave the milk out of the fridge?”

    Usually such a simple yes/no answer in my experience.

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    It’s a pretty standard bandwidth/latency tradeoff in my view: email is high bandwidth (it’s in writing, you can re-read, etc.), whereas phone is low latency (several back-and-forth explanations can happen in seconds). Each has its place.

    If social anxiety is a factor, that’s a perfectly valid, but separate, issue.

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      email is high bandwidth

      I don’t think the reasons you stated are about bandwidth, and considering writing an email is IMO more effort than explaining on a phone call and will take me longer, I’d argue phone calls are higher bandwidth than email - at least in one on one conversations, since things change when you want to inform multiple people.

      Though of course what you listed is important, and it sucks when people refuse to write out basic details that you could come back to later or forward to somebody else.

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      I think my main problem is how disruptive it is to your focus. With text I can write a semi quick response then get back to what I was doing. Whereas a phone call requires me to drop everything and give a fellow human my full attention in realtime. It tends to drain my already small social battery.

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    I disagree. It really is just way simpler and also in most cases it solves whatever problem you have much faster.

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      The trick is to not respond for an hour and hope their next message is “nvm, fixed it”

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        Unironically works. They start typing the email and rubber-ducky themselves half of the times.

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        No irony, this is a core skill when you’re in tech leadership. If you’re the people pleasing type, always replying immediately is a classic trap.

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    I used to be like this until I got a job that required constant phone calls. Now if I have to explain something using more than three sentences I’d much rather just talk.

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      6 years of tech support and I dread email troubleshooting because I know it will take two weeks and 13 exchanges before we can actually start troubleshooting.

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        Hello otacon239, thanks for contacting lemmy technical support. My name is tja, I love dogs and I will be thrilled to help you today. I understand that you dread email troubleshooting because it will take two weeks and 13 exchanges to actually start troubleshooting, is that correct?

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      I’ve worked as phone support for a year and I hate phonecalls even more.

      I’d rather send an email with detailed steps and let people follow the instructions at their own pace. If they fail - remote.

      Phonecalls are a weste of everyone’s time.

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    Easier if you send it to me in writing so I can properly digest it instead of having it immediately spill out of my ears.

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      You assume that you are talking to a competent person who has a real difficult problem, which is not the case in 95% of the time and they have some bullshit trivial thing that you already told them 5 times.

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      I’m with you on this. I prefer important conversations that require me to make a decision or remember something in writing. Just general conversation about what you got up to on weekend? Fine let’s talk it out.

      I understand so many more people prefer verbal communication because it’s easier for them to not have to type or put their thoughts into written words. I just wish more of them understood that it’s not the same for everyone and come to a compromise.

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      Okay, but this is less of a question and more of me having 10,000 choices to make that I’m not actually allowed to decide.

      So can you just sit on the phone with me and tell me which buttons I can press without getting fired?

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    That’s my sister. Good fucking god. I don’t care about the supposed drama of your workplace. It is not interesting. You’d think that my tone would be enough to get thru her thick skull that I HATE TALKING ON THE PHONE but noooo…

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    At work this request means “I’m going to ramble for 45 minutes because I don’t understand it enough to form a question”.

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      This is exactly what my dad does. “It’s easier” means “I can’t be bothered to spend five minutes figuring out what the question I really want to ask is, and write it out in a ten word text. So instead I’ll ramble for fifteen minutes and hope you figure it out for me.”

      When people say “it’s easier” they mean for them, not you.