When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

Re:When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home by ghaff on Monday October 12, 2020 @06:34PM (#24760240)

I have absolutely gotten very late night calls in Europe when I've been traveling, mostly SPAM, some wrong numbers, but also idiot people at my company which could have been dealt with using a text or email. (Haven't actually gotten the latter for a while; people don't randomly call someone outside of specific circumstances at this point.)

My contacts go through, there's the call twice workaround, and honestly I'm from a period when you just couldn't always reach someone immediately and I'm fine with that.

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Re:When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home by cxr on Monday October 12, 2020 @06:47PM (#24760361)

> I'm from a period when you just couldn't always reach someone immediately

Sure, me too, but that's exactly where I'm coming from when I ask. It's the same set of sensibilities that says that if there's going to be a call in the middle of the night, it's probably for a good reason. I would think we'd have to fast forward from there to reach the place that views regularly taking the phone off the hook as the natural solution, due to e.g. jadedness/cynicism/etc.

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Re:When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home by ghaff on Monday October 12, 2020 @07:06PM (#24760550)

I'd definitely be open to an argument that it may be reasonable to DND my phone when I'm traveling to Europe/Asia but not otherwise especially given that I no longer have a landline. In fact, given that isn't happening anytime soon maybe I'll turn it off. (I have very few notifications on anyway.)

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