N.C. Winters is always drawing. When he isn't making comics, doodling or working as a freelance graphic artist, he spends his time painting pretty pictures for galleries from his home studio in sunny southern California.
That happens WAAAAAY too often. And they call the SECOND they send the email. If you had given me a minute, I would have just replied to your email saying thanks for the file lol.
Why call? Don’t people know they just have to request a read receipt before sending the message?
You should call only if that receipt is taking too long to be delivered.
Why wast time when technology is made to simplify our life and increase productivity?
Wait what about the infamous text message after the email to check if you got the email. Its amazing how much technology has made the population more anxious, less patient and thus less human…
I let it fly by, even make the call myself when there is urgency and I will not be able to resend any files later that did not get through, or that may lack any information the client suddenly remembers. These kind of calls in my case are for verification not so much of the email but of the integrity and robustness or satisfaction of its contents when on a very tight deadline.
This happens to me all the time at my 9-5 day job… I get emails when the people are 2 feet from me, then they turn around and ask if I’ve gotten the email, or they send stuff from their personal email during the work to me then get upset when I reply to said email b/c they “never check it at work”…um ok O_o
I do this. Ok, It *seems* like a time waster. But so many supposedly competent people in business are absolutely clueless about email and don’t check it regularly, or have email or spam filters that hide incoming email. If you don’t confirm with the target person that you sent them an email, your email may wind up in oblivion.
This is so true, and happens very often to me. But I really don’t bother to say “OK, thanks” on the phone. It also takes me seconds to just “open my mouth”. Well, mobile ring tone can be disturbing… so we busy designers should choose some really smooth tone.
Anyway, this is a good practice patience and well, clients like this are usually very fast at giving feedback/content – which usually leads to a successful project.
That´s so true… we should erradicate phones from earth! They are so intrusive and annoying, mail cna be checked when YOU want and that´s great. At least for a phone hater like me… those ringtones are like screaming from hell…
Finally it’s there
Cheers!
Hehe! I’ve lost count of how many times this has happened to me! So annoying!
You always put a smile on my face. Thanks for another great comic!
I hate when this happens to me.
These emails too: “Joe, I’m going to be emailing you later with the file.”
That happens WAAAAAY too often. And they call the SECOND they send the email. If you had given me a minute, I would have just replied to your email saying thanks for the file lol.
Why call? Don’t people know they just have to request a read receipt before sending the message?
You should call only if that receipt is taking too long to be delivered.
Why wast time when technology is made to simplify our life and increase productivity?
I get emails asking if I got their emails.
hahah damn true.. but sometimes it needed..
Since a good chunk of my client base comes from academia, I leave phone messages like this:
“[Substance of my message goes here.] And I’ll also be sending an e-mail.”
And then I send an e-mail that repeats what I just said in the phone message.
Academics can be very hard to reach, so “double-teaming” with voice mail and e-mail are mandatory.
Wait what about the infamous text message after the email to check if you got the email. Its amazing how much technology has made the population more anxious, less patient and thus less human…
good day all
love the site!
Ben Yomtov
Digital Artist
one more great strip, it’s a hard true but sincerely i find much more annoying the opposite.
Haa, that’s the worst scenario but always happens.
Wow, I know exactly how that is.
I just found your awesome comic yesterday, and I must say it was worth staying up to the wee hours to catch up.
hahaha – this has been me all last week. My current client calls me every time they send me a file to read me what the email says
“I get emails asking if I got their emails.”
same here
i got that beat: how about email, fax, AND a phone call confirming that you got the email and fax? it’s a redundancy spiral!
Wow….. I thought i was alone, in this world…. LOL
I let it fly by, even make the call myself when there is urgency and I will not be able to resend any files later that did not get through, or that may lack any information the client suddenly remembers. These kind of calls in my case are for verification not so much of the email but of the integrity and robustness or satisfaction of its contents when on a very tight deadline.
That *exact* think happened to me today. Weird.
I once received a call to see if I received the email that they had printed off and faxed to me.
This happens to me all the time at my 9-5 day job… I get emails when the people are 2 feet from me, then they turn around and ask if I’ve gotten the email, or they send stuff from their personal email during the work to me then get upset when I reply to said email b/c they “never check it at work”…um ok O_o
You really just can’t win.
I do this. Ok, It *seems* like a time waster. But so many supposedly competent people in business are absolutely clueless about email and don’t check it regularly, or have email or spam filters that hide incoming email. If you don’t confirm with the target person that you sent them an email, your email may wind up in oblivion.
This is so true, and happens very often to me. But I really don’t bother to say “OK, thanks” on the phone. It also takes me seconds to just “open my mouth”. Well, mobile ring tone can be disturbing… so we busy designers should choose some really smooth tone.
Anyway, this is a good practice patience and well, clients like this are usually very fast at giving feedback/content – which usually leads to a successful project.
Hahaha, that happens because you replied several times “It never arrived” about that annoying mail asking things that you didn’t want to do.
:-p
As an aside, my pet peeve is when a certain friend of mine leaves a voice mail that says “Call me” without saying why.
I get as much information when someone hangs up on the voicemail.
That´s so true… we should erradicate phones from earth! They are so intrusive and annoying, mail cna be checked when YOU want and that´s great. At least for a phone hater like me… those ringtones are like screaming from hell…
missing image…it’s here:
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rock on, keep up the rad work…peace and love from the land of j^pan.