What Are You Doing Right Now
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@jt1001001 What's amazing is that except for that one uninhabited valley in Nicaragua, I've been all over Central America, Canada, most of Europe, some of north Africa, even an island in the Med and all of them have cell service to a degree that I know of no place, including Manhattan, in the US that is as good. Although I have made it from the Altantic ocean, across Virginia on the south edge and to the far side of the Smokies once without dropping a call. Big parts of the US have good coverage too... although it normally requires having multiple carriers for it to work. Everyone else, just one carrier is all that you need.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@DustinB3403 said:
@scottalanmiller I completely understand the situation here, as this clearly isn't an emergency.
But the normal communication methods tried first would be an email or text. If there is no response a follow up call. I for one wake up (on average) 1 hour before I'm due into work.
So to have a text that I'm not looking for sitting on my phone, saying "hey can you be the early guy" is not a notification to me to update my alarm.
I happened to wake up early enough to make it in, but a call would have absolutely been the appropriate thing after there was no response via Text after a few minutes.
A call as a follow up is different than a call instead of sending the info. Those are very different concepts.
A text - then waiting 5+ mins - then a call seems like a waste of 5 mins and requires the initiator to remember do the followup.
If he skips the text, goes directly to the phone call he'll know right then and their that the person either does or doesn't have the request.
This is all the more exasperated by it being after 10 PM, the normal etiquette time for communications.
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@jt1001001 said:
Don't get me stated on cell availability around here (Western NY). Buffalo/Rochester area is the worst, regardless of carrier or technology. 4G? I'm lucky if I can get CDMA 1X in my building, and I"m only a mile from a tower! Now, in the "boonies" I would expect that but not in a relative major suburban area. I've literally gone up into less populated areas of New England or the middle of Pennsylvania expecting little to no service, and get not just 4G, but full on XLTE with measured 20 Mbit down!
I go up to my brother's in Maine he has great signal almost everywhere. I go to my in-laws in a very rural area outside of Pittsburgh and they have great signal.
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@Dashrender said:
A text - then waiting 5+ mins - then a call seems like a waste of 5 mins and requires the initiator to remember do the followup.
If he skips the text, goes directly to the phone call he'll know right then and their that the person either does or doesn't have the request.
You added in the five minute wait to make it a problem. If this is an emergency it would be email, then call. Immediately if necessary. But only for an emergency.
If non-emergency, email then wait more than five minutes, then call once it has become time sensitive.
Text is always wrong. Text then call in five minutes seems universally wrong. You are adding in factors to make good processes sound bad.
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@Dashrender said:
This is all the more exasperated by it being after 10 PM, the normal etiquette time for communications.
True, making using email more important than before.
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@Dashrender said:
If he skips the text, goes directly to the phone call he'll know right then and their that the person either does or doesn't have the request.
Except it is rude and doesn't mean that he would get through or get the details correct or have a record of it.
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@DustinB3403 said:
I drive constantly, and haven't experienced any issues.
Yeah I rarely have any issues at all with Verizon until I get in the middle of Letchworth park or down in the Southern Tier area (or Delhi NY).
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We drive pretty much everywhere (hate dealing with flying). We have a few areas where we have no Verizon service. Dallas TX, Oklahoma in a couple areas (Indian Reservations mostly), Souther Tier of NYS, Delhi NY, Major State parks you lose service in the middle usually.
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@Minion-Queen said:
@DustinB3403 said:
I drive constantly, and haven't experienced any issues.
Yeah I rarely have any issues at all with Verizon until I get in the middle of Letchworth park or down in the Southern Tier area (or Delhi NY).
That should change soon. The college here is getting a huge Verizon tower on the tallest building in town (which is near the top of a mountain as it is).
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
If he skips the text, goes directly to the phone call he'll know right then and their that the person either does or doesn't have the request.
Except it is rude and doesn't mean that he would get through or get the details correct or have a record of it.
You are the only one saying it's rude. Now I'll accept a group consensus that it's rude if we suddenly get a flood of "it's rude" posts - but other than giving me a hard time I don't see that happening.
Phone call followed by email or email followed by phone call - I really don't care the order. I agree that the email makes the otherside more responsible for providing correct details, and that by putting the email second it's likely that the sender won't feel the need to put in all the details. But if there is even a remote chance that they think they are going to be calling anyway - they won't include those details in a precall email to begin with.
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@Minion-Queen said:
We drive pretty much everywhere (hate dealing with flying). We have a few areas where we have no Verizon service. Dallas TX, Oklahoma in a couple areas (Indian Reservations mostly), Souther Tier of NYS, Delhi NY, Major State parks you lose service in the middle usually.
There is nearly zero service - definitely not reliable between Lincoln Ne and the state line on Interstate 80. You get stuck out there, you better hope for a good samaritan because you'll extremely unlikely to be calling/texting or emailing anyone.
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@coliver said:
@Minion-Queen said:
@DustinB3403 said:
I drive constantly, and haven't experienced any issues.
Yeah I rarely have any issues at all with Verizon until I get in the middle of Letchworth park or down in the Southern Tier area (or Delhi NY).
That should change soon. The college here is getting a huge Verizon tower on the tallest building in town (which is near the top of a mountain as it is).
That is going to be nice!
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@Dashrender said:
@Minion-Queen said:
We drive pretty much everywhere (hate dealing with flying). We have a few areas where we have no Verizon service. Dallas TX, Oklahoma in a couple areas (Indian Reservations mostly), Souther Tier of NYS, Delhi NY, Major State parks you lose service in the middle usually.
There is nearly zero service - definitely not reliable between Lincoln Ne and the state line on Interstate 80. You get stuck out there, you better hope for a good samaritan because you'll extremely unlikely to be calling/texting or emailing anyone.
Been awhile since I have been through there.
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@Minion-Queen said:
@Dashrender said:
@Minion-Queen said:
We drive pretty much everywhere (hate dealing with flying). We have a few areas where we have no Verizon service. Dallas TX, Oklahoma in a couple areas (Indian Reservations mostly), Souther Tier of NYS, Delhi NY, Major State parks you lose service in the middle usually.
There is nearly zero service - definitely not reliable between Lincoln Ne and the state line on Interstate 80. You get stuck out there, you better hope for a good samaritan because you'll extremely unlikely to be calling/texting or emailing anyone.
Been awhile since I have been through there.
Smoke signals. The ultimate retro technology.
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Thinking I should really set-up some kind of backup for ESXi11 as it now has 11 VM's running on it. OK mainly Test machines and Linux servers but just in case lol
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@hobbit666 What version of ESXi are you using?
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@hobbit666 Yeah but essentials plus, or the free edition or what?
I guess version is a bit misleading, sorry.
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@DustinB3403 LOL Free
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@Minion-Queen said:
@DustinB3403 Email is actually more appropriate, with maybe a text to say I sent an email take a look. After 9pm unless there is an outage don't bother employees at home.
Email is,.. but it's one of those things for me at least - I have my phone set with DnD hours. After 9pm I won't hear it. Texts, Emails and most calls won't be noticed unless I pick up my phone and look.
Now if you repeat call, or if you are in my list,.. then I will. but again that is calls.. not emails or texts. heck - my phone won't even pull new mail like it suppose to.. and it's set to.
Come August - iPhone 6 or something...
