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Guessing they just don’t have the means or technical no how to setup an online ordering system, doubt it’s anything malicious.
Also email is not secured so I wouldn’t want to send credit card info or anything important through that means of communication, hence the call.
~~no~~ know- how
You’re goddamn right.
phone calls aren't more secure
The likelihood of a phone call being intercepted is vastly less likely than data transmitted over email. Also what do you even know about telephone technology you damn raccoon.
If I email you and you call me instead of emailing back I'm screening your call. Just send an email back, I would have called you if it needed to be a phone call.
Some things just lead to a bunch of questions that are annoyingly slow to sort out via email. Or the sender is clearly starting with a wrong assumption that will make any text communication come across the wrong way and a phone call could sort that out quickly.
Do you respond well to an email reply that asks to do a call instead?
Asking for a call to clarify would be a much better approach. I should preface that I am in IT. My workplace had no help tickets or IT help voip lines when I got here. I worked very hard to be able to take these calls all day. So I have less time for phone calls than the average office employee. I'm like Help Desk 1-3 and SME for a few programs at my workplace.
Making an appointment for a call is the way I would do it. Otherwise I'll just assume it's spam because most calls are.
This is such a boomer comment. Literally nothing is better as a phone call. Having to deal with shitty connections, accents, not being able to think for a moment to prepare a reply, not being able to reference anything, not being able to proof read your response. It's absurd.
I guess I just work with more complicated topics.
Yeah. That's why the most complicated topics, like astrophysics, are always described orally, rather than writing written reports
You know they discuss things orally at conferences and while reviewing those written descriptions right?
Right?
When I signed up for season tickets for the raiders, I had to talk to some goober salesman on a "virtual tour" over zoom or w/e. I tried like hell to just have him send me a price sheet, and a map so I could pick my seats. I even worked for the team in the past and contacted my old boss to tell him this was super inconvenient. He insisted that that's the only way to do it, and they don't share price sheets with customers. It's boomer sales tactics, and good luck telling them that most people don't want to talk to a guy for a simple transaction.
Personally, if I send an email to someone and they call me, that makes me suspicious of what theyre going to say. Why don't they want to send an email back? What do they not want a paper trail of?
If someone (especially management) at my job asks me to do something, I always tell them to send me an email (via company email) telling me what they want specifically. This way, in case anyone in the future has a problem, I can reference the email and who sent it to me.I also will always respond when I complete the task so that I can reference how long the task took me to complete. As you can imagine this means I do nearly no meaningless or legally questionable tasks.
Naturally, I have done this in my personal life as well. Any conversation I feel is very important, I send a text or even an email. I once had someone respond by phone only, and this person was verbally abusive. I politely told them that any further correspondence must be done by text or email. Sadly, they never apologized, and have never spoken to me since.
So is it rude? I think it depends on the context and the person.
ok so I was going to say no but really the issue here is a bussiness should be consistant in communication and have a decent amount of communication options. So the person should have emailed you to schedule a time to call or give you his number to call.
If you write someone an email and include your phone number then it is completely okay for them to call you back.
No, but the Contact Us information should have been clearer. Like "No online ticket orders. To order tickets, call us at 111-111-1111"
I don't answer my phone so calling me would not work, and yes I would find it annoying.
To an office, no.
To an individual, yes. Don't call me.
My favorite is when some dumb ass company asks me to fax something. Like bitch...I haven't had a land line in over 20 years, much less a fax machine. There is this new thing called email, perhaps you've heard of it?
I don't trust any company that still relies on easily-tapped fax lines whenevery doctor or tax office I've used has had a secure online portal for uploading documents for years.
You can fax stuff online.
This is because people believe that faxes are "unhackable" because it's just scanning a piece of paper and transmitting it to another machine that prints it out. They never think that you can photoshop a thing and then print it out and then fax it.
No.
No.
Disrespectful, no. Annoying af on a personal level, yes. If I email, it's because I have time for that not your stupid rambling stories, I want a paper trail, and I don't want to deal with people in conversation. I blatantly do not answer calls at work when I am emailing someone and if they ask if they can call, I tell them no and to please use email.
I can understand them calling in your case. I wouldn't like it, but sometimes it's just faster to talk things out. So long as you don't get a rambler.
In MLB, Season tickets holders are personally handled by an agent from the team's ticket office. Some MiLB clubs might do the same.
It's supposed to make the experience feel more premium.
Just tell him you'd prefer a more "carvana-like" experience.
It's definitely old-fashioned, but baseball is notoriously slow to change.
It depends. For some groups of people, it isn't considered rude to switch methods of contacting people if one person sees a need for it; this is especially prevalent with older people.
Dunno but if you're in a hurry I don't think it matters