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Dear Coworker R's friends:
This is a place of business. As such, please keep in mind that
1. Calling should not be to chat.
2. People end up in meetings, as it's their JOB.
3. As a friend, when I ask if you want voicemail? Go to voicemail. I am NOT taking your message. I don't give a flying fuck if you call from Italy.
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I'm having issues with this one chick (who is apparently afraid of me, but not afraid enough to get over herself) because she calls from Italy, seems to think R should talk to her whenever (she's getting better on that one), and then does the "tell her I called" thing when I never take messages from friends and have never taken a message from her. My issue with taking messages is that this generation leaves voicemails all the time. There's no excuse to have trouble waiting 5 more seconds for voicemail. And anyone falling into the friends category shouldn't be calling during work anyway. (From Italy I could get once in a blue moon, but she's called four times this week already.) Also, they don't come up front to retrieve messages. I take them back there. I'm not uselessly running to the back just for friends. It has to be a client or family. Everyone else must leave a voicemail. If a friend is going to call, they need to know that they are not entitled to have the secretary running all over.
This is a place of business. As such, please keep in mind that
1. Calling should not be to chat.
2. People end up in meetings, as it's their JOB.
3. As a friend, when I ask if you want voicemail? Go to voicemail. I am NOT taking your message. I don't give a flying fuck if you call from Italy.
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I'm having issues with this one chick (who is apparently afraid of me, but not afraid enough to get over herself) because she calls from Italy, seems to think R should talk to her whenever (she's getting better on that one), and then does the "tell her I called" thing when I never take messages from friends and have never taken a message from her. My issue with taking messages is that this generation leaves voicemails all the time. There's no excuse to have trouble waiting 5 more seconds for voicemail. And anyone falling into the friends category shouldn't be calling during work anyway. (From Italy I could get once in a blue moon, but she's called four times this week already.) Also, they don't come up front to retrieve messages. I take them back there. I'm not uselessly running to the back just for friends. It has to be a client or family. Everyone else must leave a voicemail. If a friend is going to call, they need to know that they are not entitled to have the secretary running all over.
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