On asking for help...

On asking for help...

[Drew Adams]

.. 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.

Re: On asking for help...

[Corwin Brust]

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

Re: On asking for help...

[Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

Corwin Brust wrote:

> "How hard would it be to be a little lazier next time?".

We are working on it.

-- 
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
https://dataswamp.org/~incal

Re: On asking for help...

[Corwin Brust]

I loved this.  Thanks for the reply!

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 5:59 PM Emanuel Berg via Users list for the
GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Corwin Brust wrote:
>
> > "How hard would it be to be a little lazier next time?".
>
> We are working on it.
>
> --
> underground experts united
> http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
> https://dataswamp.org/~incal
>
>


-- 
Corwin
612-217-1742
612-695-4276 (signal)
corwin@bru.st

Re: On asking for help...

[Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

Corwin Brust wrote:

>>> "How hard would it be to be a little lazier next time?"
>>
>> We are working on it.
>
> I loved this.  Thanks for the reply!

:)

-- 
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
https://dataswamp.org/~incal

Re: On asking for help...

[Jean Louis]

* 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.

Re: On asking for help...

[Christopher Dimech]

> 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.
>
>

Re: On asking for help...

[Jean Louis]

* 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.