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Just ''call'' me, okay? | Just ''call'' me, okay? | ||
But there is a more practical objection: ''time''. Not only do pre-arranged calls break up the flow of one’s day | But there is a more practical objection: ''time''. Not only do pre-arranged calls, like judder bars, break up the flow of one’s day, thus interrupting you from getting on with what you would otherwise rather be doing (which, [[Q.E.D.]] ''won’t'' be speaking to this interlocutor: if it was, ''you'' would be calling ''her'') but, thanks to the tyranny of [[Microsoft Outlook]], they will commit you to at least quarter and probably half an hour.<ref>Why do we say “half an hour” but “quarter ''of'' an hour”, by the way? And why are trousers plural?</ref> And if you give a [[legal eagle]] a quarter-hour to say something, she will take it. But no telephone conversation needs to be that long. | ||
Furthermore, there is a delay. We can allow that, while your problem won’t be the most pressing matter for ''me'', for you to be dealing with it, it must be for ''you'', in which case delaying resolution of your problem until the morning of Tuesday next week, as by scheduling a bilateral call we are proposing to do, injects four days of waste into whatever project it is you are running. | Furthermore, there is a delay. We can allow that, while your problem won’t be the most pressing matter for ''me'', for you to be dealing with it, it must be for ''you'', in which case delaying resolution of your problem until the morning of Tuesday next week, as by scheduling a bilateral call we are proposing to do, injects four days of [[waste]] into whatever project it is you are running. | ||
Lastly, if you are in written exchanges with someone about a bilateral call you would like to have with them tomorrow, you have ''already'' interrupted their flow: you have already stopped them from doing whatever else it was that they were doing. So, seeing as most calls can be dispensed with in five minutes ''just pick up the goddamn phone and get it over with''. | Lastly, if you are in written exchanges with someone about a bilateral call you would like to have with them tomorrow, you have ''already'' interrupted their flow: you have already stopped them from doing whatever else it was that they were doing. So, seeing as most calls can be dispensed with in five minutes ''just pick up the goddamn phone and get it over with''. | ||
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*[[Waste]] and in particular [[waiting]] | *[[Waste]] and in particular [[waiting]] | ||
{{c|Waste}} | {{c|Waste}} | ||
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