I will say 95% of the time I agree with this statement. self propagating meetings are the bane of my existence.
but every now and then you just get someone that cannot understand you and every now and then after four or five emails or ten IMs I will just call somebody up and talk to them for 5 minutes and it’s done.
for most people totally unnecessary but you don’t always get to choose the people you work with and their level of reading comprehension.
I will say 95% of the time I agree with this statement. self propagating meetings are the bane of my existence.
but every now and then you just get someone that cannot understand you and every now and then after four or five emails or ten IMs I will just call somebody up and talk to them for 5 minutes and it’s done.
for most people totally unnecessary but you don’t always get to choose the people you work with and their level of reading comprehension.
Those people I usually need to take to the actual hardware, like a test station, where I can show them stuff, while explaining.
The telephone often didn’t make much difference to mails regarding comprehension…
yeah, sometimes it’s still not enough