On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:26 AM, tjpa <t...@tjpa.com> wrote: > > I have been sending emails to people who sit right next to me for over 20 > years. It is effective and considerate. I'm not barging in with a demand > that my question come first. It lets them queue me up and reply as > appropriate.
Fine. My work environment almost always requires face-to-face and hands-on discussions of issues directly related to work being done. We deal with tangible things that you can pick up and look at and touch and feel. We do not sit or work in cubicles. Our work does not exist in the ether or on hard drives or other media. No one "barges in" where I work either. We mostly share one big work area, undivided by walls and devoid of doors or other entryways. When you have a question to pose, you approach the other person, and if that person is not too busy updating their Facebook page or text messaging her boyfriend for the seventh time that morning, you can usually get a prompt audience. Connecting with others as you often do in your workplace would just be silly and a waste of time in my workplace. There are actually things that are best taken care of the old fashioned analog way with eyeball-to-eyeball, human being direct to another human being without going through a digital filter or conduit. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
