* On asking for help...
@ 2020-12-23 22:17 Drew Adams
2020-12-23 23:48 ` Corwin Brust
2020-12-24 5:53 ` Jean Louis
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From: Drew Adams @ 2020-12-23 22:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Help Gnu Emacs
.. without doing any homework.
From today's New York Times article "How Many Is One
Egg Roll?".
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/opinion/covid-restaurant-business.html
Somehow this made me think of people whose immediate
impulse when looking for info is to just go on social
media and ask the planet, with a bullhorn.
You learn a lot about human nature taking takeout
orders. One interesting finding is how many people
don't read the menu before calling. They just call
and ask, "What do you have?"
We also learned that the standard number of egg
rolls in an order is not standard at all, and it
seems to be somewhere between two and five. We
edited our menu to read "one egg roll," but this
led to even more confusion. "One egg roll. What
is that exactly?" Also: "How many is one egg roll?"
Yet another consequence from growing up with social
media and the internet from birth?
___
The flip side of possibly the same coin is that it's
nearly impossible to get human help by telephone now.
That restaurant is a relic in this regard. Soon they
too may go the way of automated voice-menu rabbit-hole
Hell.
Yesterday I tried to call the Post Office, fool that
I am. After being on hold for 3 hours I finally got
through to someone, and he was totally uninformed,
uninterested, and useless. Not that I blame him
personally.
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* Re: On asking for help...
2020-12-23 22:17 On asking for help Drew Adams
@ 2020-12-23 23:48 ` Corwin Brust
2020-12-23 23:58 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-24 5:53 ` Jean Louis
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From: Corwin Brust @ 2020-12-23 23:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: Help Gnu Emacs
Thank you Drew.
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 4:18 PM Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> .. without doing any homework.
Or, having understood the assignment..
It tickles,
Lays bare the soft under-current between thoughts and action;
Intent by Intent provoking us:
"How hard would it be to be a little lazier next time?".
--
Corwin
612-217-1742
612-695-4276 (signal)
corwin@bru.st
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* Re: On asking for help...
2020-12-23 22:17 On asking for help Drew Adams
2020-12-23 23:48 ` Corwin Brust
@ 2020-12-24 5:53 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-24 6:10 ` Christopher Dimech
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From: Jean Louis @ 2020-12-24 5:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: Help Gnu Emacs
* Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> [2020-12-24 01:19]:
> Yesterday I tried to call the Post Office, fool that
> I am. After being on hold for 3 hours I finally got
> through to someone, and he was totally uninformed,
> uninterested, and useless. Not that I blame him
> personally.
It is new derived civilization culture.
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* Re: On asking for help...
2020-12-24 5:53 ` Jean Louis
@ 2020-12-24 6:10 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-24 11:18 ` Jean Louis
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From: Christopher Dimech @ 2020-12-24 6:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jean Louis; +Cc: Help Gnu Emacs
> Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2020 at 11:23 AM
> From: "Jean Louis" <bugs@gnu.support>
> To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: "Help Gnu Emacs" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: On asking for help...
>
> * Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> [2020-12-24 01:19]:
> > Yesterday I tried to call the Post Office, fool that
> > I am. After being on hold for 3 hours I finally got
> > through to someone, and he was totally uninformed,
> > uninterested, and useless. Not that I blame him
> > personally.
If it was the pilot who was smoked up, totally uninformed,
uninterested, and useless; would you board the plane?
And would you blame him personally if he crashed you
on the Andes mountains? ;)
> It is new derived civilization culture.
>
>
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* Re: On asking for help...
2020-12-24 6:10 ` Christopher Dimech
@ 2020-12-24 11:18 ` Jean Louis
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From: Jean Louis @ 2020-12-24 11:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christopher Dimech; +Cc: Help Gnu Emacs
* Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> [2020-12-24 09:12]:
> > * Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> [2020-12-24 01:19]:
> > > Yesterday I tried to call the Post Office, fool that
> > > I am. After being on hold for 3 hours I finally got
> > > through to someone, and he was totally uninformed,
> > > uninterested, and useless. Not that I blame him
> > > personally.
>
> If it was the pilot who was smoked up, totally uninformed,
> uninterested, and useless; would you board the plane?
> And would you blame him personally if he crashed you
> on the Andes mountains? ;)
There are terrible pilots and airplane crews. Passengers may not see
them until you board the airplane. It is too late.
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