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Edited on Fri Apr-23-10 03:05 PM by ClusterFreak
Are you sick and tired of emailing business contacts/friends, and they either take their sweet time getting back to you...or don't get back to you at all?
I am. Really sick of it.
I emailed a guy three days ago and after making some nice chit chat at the beginning of the message, I got down to business. It's not pressing business, but it's stuff I'd like for he and I to discuss in person at the next mutually convenient time. That's all. Doesn't require a phone call - either to discuss this business, or to inquire whether or not he got the email in the first place - and it doesn't require an immediate response. But it requires A response.
I don't think three days is an acceptable length of time to make someone (i.e. me!) wait for said response. I understand busy, I am busy, but in this day and age of hyper-connectedness (this guy has his iPhone attached to his hip, and therefore immediate access to his email) I don't see why it should take so long to get back to someone.
This person is a good person, and is someone with whom I am comfortable discussing business, but he - and my I say many I know like him - are one of those email/phone message screener types. "Who's this from? Oh, it's from so and so...no problem, I'll get back...whenever..."
No. No whenever.
How about 24 to 48 hours? How about we make that the rule. If it was really pressing business, I'd call you. I'd come to your place of business, I'd ask to meet you, etc.
Now I know what many of you will say. Why don't you tell him about your frustrations? I have. I do, to him and to others like him whom I've encountered in my sphere of business friends/contacts. But ya know what? I don't WANT to poke you in the ribs about it. Why should I? You're an adult, aren't you? Do unto others...it's in that vein.
Anyway...I feel better now. Well, a little.:P
Nothing is going to change I'm sure of it, but sometimes you just have to get it off yer chest!
:argh:
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