You mean, no one of you folks had a boss, coworker or customer - or
close relative - treat the old land-line phone (or faxes) exactly the
same way?!?!?
On 9. Oct., 2009, at 23:11 PM, James Fraser wrote:
> I've always wanted to ask (and I guess this is as good a place as
> any): is this expectation of a (hyper) prompt response a
> generational thing? Or has it now become much more of an across-the-
> board expectation that people of all ages hold?
>
> I used to believe (in my haste, if not fervor, to hold one
> particular group responsible) this was something that people under
> 25 years old were the most guilty of. But now, with computers and
> mobile devices being cheap and ubiquitous enough that people of all
> ages can abus^H^H^H^H^Hutilize them, I'm not so sure that's the case
> anymore (if, indeed, it ever was).
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