Submitted 3 weeks ago by phudgins@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Two panel image. Line art side view of a woman looking at her phone. Second panel shows same woman looking up in exasperation while holding her phone.
Text above reads: ‘Are you busy?’ Me: ‘No’ Incoming video call
I can hear d the groan in this image.
My boss likes to remind me I am showing as online on slack, I turn it back on 5min and then back off
This is why my answer is either “yes,” if I’m busy, or “kind of, why what is it?” Judging by the followup I can determine how exactly how “kind of,” busy I am.
swipes to decline
Not being busy != Free for a call of any kind.
Leave me alone. 😭
“I am shitting, so i’il not answer unless ya want to eat the sounds”
“Sorry, I hate video calls. You can call me the old school way if you want to talk.”
I don’t mine regular phone calls but fuck video calls. I only ever do those if I am far away and haven’t seen my parents in a long time. Also fuck spam callers in general and hope they all get throat cancer for being leaches on society.
That isn’t asking me if I’m available for a call. So rude.
I hate typing on a phone and I love the opportunity to knock a conversation that would’ve happened over 2-4 hours in 2 minutes.
No, you must refuse to talk to anyone on the phone like a good little autistic person with phone anxiety.
I get time anxiety instead. So many misunderstandings chatting back and forth and fuck typing on a touchscreen in general.
When they are concise and with purpose , phone calls are great. But I have so little patience to draw it out into an hour-long affair. And even less for video calls, because then I can’t even be tidying up or doing anything while it happens
Just reply with Nohello.net
“yes unless it involves beer”
huh. i have somehow managed to instill within myself a penchant for unambiguous specificity in response to this question before this ever became a problem for me.
“Are you busy?”
“I am not available for any communication at this moment except for textual.
I anticipate my response time shall be approximately between 30 and 300 seconds.”
Haven’t had one ever. You know you don’t have to have them?
marcos@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“Oh, sorry, you meant for a call? No, I’m in a meeting already, I’m free to do stuff but I can’t answer a call.”