people who call/email repeatedly to ask the same thing, until you respond

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a woman at the place where i volunteer has the habit of emailing me several times in the space of a few minutes with either the exact same query, or a variation on the same query, or maybe the same query with an additional comment amended.

12:15 PM: "do you know where the ___ DVD went?"
12:20 PM: "do you know where the ___ DVD went? i can't find it."

etc.

today she surpassed herself by sending me seven emails in 30 minutes.

happily my volunteer job ends very soon so i won't deal with her any more (i think i may even blacklist her email address once i quit).

but anyway i've known other people who do this, who are so impatient (or something) that they will email or call you several times before you have an opportunity to call back.

i think i've done something like this once in my life, and it was in the context of a relationship, where i think some weirdness is occasionally expected.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

i think these people do nothing but send messages, and feel somehow that if they've replied to a message or sent 10 of them, they've "done something" even if, in fact, they've done practically nothing.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

I have a friend who will im me, text me and call/leae voicemail in less than 5 minutes. I don't even see the point of leaving voicemail if you just need a call back.

― Jon, remind me again why you haven't drowned in your own vomit (ex machina), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?

Where's my spy camera? Where's my spy camera? Where's my spy camera? Where's my spy camera? Where's my spy camera? Where's my spy camera?

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Maybe they think because you haven't replied you haven't got the message?

still a silly thing though.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

i mean, sometimes if someone hasn't replied to a query i'll email them again... in a few weeks. not in five minutes.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

i know people like this. they all work in pr.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

I hate these people, and sometimes, their persistence puts them at the bottom of my to-do list.

― Hukl, Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

i check for wedding rings right before i fuck them.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

After receiving their half a dozen emails about the same thing, send them an email asking them a question and don't refer to ANYTHING in any of those emails. And put in the email an animated gif of a kitten being skullfucked.

― matlewis (matlewis), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

I'm bouncing around on threads a lot, and betwen Alex's Blog, Geoff/Gorf with the cock in his mouth and the kitten skullfuckery gif/golf, I'm getting very confused.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

madchen to thread

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

12:15 PM: "do you know where the ___ DVD went?"
12:20 PM: "do you know where the ___ DVD went? i can't find it."

I imagine that the blanks are swears.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

no it's 'PR0N'

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

i'm sorry nick, i'd explain further but it's a matter of national security.

btw the background to all this is that person in question is a total incompetent nitwit (i started a thread about her before, but i can't locate it) who drives me fucking batty with her constant emails and requests for meetings to solve problems like her misplacing the tape dispenser. (this is only a slight exaggeration.)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

god i wish i could find the article about the 4 hours an office spent memo'ing and emailing each other about how to deal with a fly that had perched on the windowsill...

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

There was a sales rep at my last job who would do that AND mark every single email he sent me URGENT!. AND he would include little animated gifs in each one of an angry man fuming or something like that.

My mom likes to email me, call my cell phone and leave a message asking if I got her email, and then leaving a message on my home phone saying that she emailed and called my cell and would I please call her back. This usually all happens within an hour.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

i do this, but unfortunately it is required for me to get my job done :/

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

My father does things like that. His M.O. is to write me an e-mail and ask that I call him when I get it. Being that I'm on a dial-up at home...

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

i always follow up every phone call with an e-mail and if that isnt responded to within 5-10 minutes I go find said person and bug them personally until what i want is done, as i stand over them

needless to say i am not liked, very much

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

You and amateurist should start a business together.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

ok so the dvd in question was in a very garishly colored box with the name of the dvd on the spine in bright yellow. i reminded her of this (after she sent her three emails about it), after which she sent an email reading, "i've found it." and then she sent another email 15 minutes later which began, "i found the ___ DVD." i was tempted to send her three emails in quick succession which all read, "did you find the DVD?"

nitwit.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

I have a colleague who does this. She will phone my mobile, which I will not answer, because I have a special ringtone for her and know it's her. Then she will immediately phone the shop, and I will know it is her because of the timing and not answer that either, then she will phone my mobile again to leave a message because she didn't leave one the first time.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

amateurist want to start a business together?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and then when she does get me, she will say "oh THERE you are," in an exasperated tone of voice, like I was in the first place she looked but she just didn't see me there, or something.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

it's really a pain in the ass when people don't return your calls.

― the urban heat island effect (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

yeah, but you know what we're talking about here right?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

i know.

― the urban heat island effect (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Do you know what we're talking about, Jody?

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

Do you know?

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

im sorry, i relate to these people who are bugging you people

because i totally do that, too, accentmonkey! i call and go "THERE YOU ARE!"

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

Do you?

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

Do you know what we're talking about, Jody?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

outside of work, though, i never answer my phone nor do i check voicemail or return phone calls.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

jody, you're not answering this thread!!!!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

i just stopped short of writing jody an e-mail.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

How come I keep checking the thread and there are no new posts?

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

i wish i had her number

then i'd call and go 'THERE YOU ARE!!!"

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

thanks for replying, jody. now i know you know what we're talking about. ok? tell me when you get this.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

did you get my last message?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Well, there were a few, but then they stopped again. I wonder what happened?

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

actually the worst is when someone sends you unsolicited band spam and then send accusatory follow-up e-mails practically blaming you for not caring.

― the urban heat island effect (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

sorry, i went to get a drink of water. I'm working on it right now.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

whats the status of this?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

What's the progress report of this?

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Mandee, if I worked with you I would assign you your own special ringtone. Wouldn't that be great? I means I love you.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 15 July 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

People who call/email repeatedly to lisp the phrase "waterfalls of pussy" to you — classic or double-classic?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 15 July 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

i mean, sometimes if someone hasn't replied to a query i'll email them again... in a few weeks. not in five minutes.
-- Amateur(ist) (amateurist@gmail.com), July 14th, 2005 5:32 PM. (Amateur(ist)) (later)

i think it depends on the query.. although if it's really urgent, it should be done through phonecalls rather than emails. obv.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

or if the instructions are highly textual and complex, then an email, backed up by a phonecall for acknowledgement

― ken c's office masterclass (ken c), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

My mum, if i don't reply to her text with 2 tenths of a second, i get another one saying, "did you get my text?" followed very shortly by a call saying " it's me, did you get my texts?"

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

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