Digital Analogue
Comments: All I want to know is...
This is a universal problem, I fear. We have any number of users at work who feel that it's perfectly OK to call my direct number to ask me a technical support question that, by rights, was supposed to have been emailed to the helpdesk (which I am not a part of, or at least wasn't until October). Some people just prefer to use the phone. I think it's because they feel that they're personally more important that the rest of us, or that their situation is sufficiently dire (kinda like that one person who always sends every mail with "Priority: High" set on it) as to justify the use of excessively intrusive means of communication.
Posted by kelly at 1:22am on 23 Jan 2004
Heh. One of my quadmates senior year called an IMSA math prof at around midnight for help with Mathematica. She wasn't asleep, but damn. Speaking of which... are you teaching CS142 next term? *evil grin*
Posted by drlynn at 12:19pm on 23 Jan 2004
Alas, no. Dooley is teaching 142; I'll be teaching 305 and two half-credit language courses in C++ and Perl.
Posted by blahedo at 12:30pm on 23 Jan 2004
If I got a call at 10:45, my hints would not be subtle. I'd figure this was something of a "teaching moment."
Posted by Kimmitt at 5:39pm on 23 Jan 2004