Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Excuse me...

... I seem to have dialled a wrong number. Sorry.

What's so difficult about uttering the simple phrase above? Sure, it takes you 2 seconds to say after you figure out that the person you just called isn't the person you meant to call. Shouldn't be that difficult, but for some odd reason it is, at least for some people. I don't know if it's only related to engineers, but I've encountered very much of this with my work-phone in the past few months. The latest person was a Mr. T. Kopra of a Finnish technology company who decided that manners are overrated and hanging up without a single word is the way to go. Congratulations for him and perhaps even he'll eventually figure out the correct way to handle these sorts of situations.

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