People leaving voicemail recordings that say, "I'll get back to you at MY earliest CONVENIENCE"

[JoePhilly]

65. You are starting to sound like my brother-in-law.

My wife and I work in technology and so for some reason, he thinks we are his technical support staff.

Recently, he had a computer issue and he called our home and left a message. No one was there. He called my cell. I was in a meeting. He called my wife's cell, she was on a 5-6 hour airplane flight to the West Coast.

I ended up working late, got home, fed the kids, helped them do homework, and then went straight to bed. My wife landed in CA, had meetings until 11pm CA time (2am East coast time) ... so she went to bed.

The next morning, at 9am EST he calls my wife and starts complaining because she didn't respond promptly to his urgent computer issue, as if she worked for him. Of course he was unaware that it was 6am on the West Coast, and he work her an hour earlier than she intended.

And so ... here is another way to see this ... the people you are calling ... they don't work for you.

And you can not expect them to drop everything just for you, or anyone else who has decided that THEY are the most important thing in your life at the current moment.