Tuesday, 18 November 2008

Continued...

If you think I’m exaggerating, hear this. I recently met one of my relatives who work for a massive technology company. He is the typical picture of a high flying executive described above. He spends more time flying to meetings than at them, works through breakfast, lunch and dinner and makes more money than anyone should be morally allowed to.

While we were chatting at 1:00 a.m. in the wee hours, the conversation went something like this:

Me: Hey, so what’s this trip all…
RIM: Beep-Beep-Beep
Him: One second, e-mail…

He then proceeded to check some notes and wrote a five minute mail.

Finally, getting back to the conversation:

Me: Hey, so what’s this trip all about?
Him: Well, just some…
RIM: Beep-Beep-Beep
Him: (Sheepish grin) E-mail again, one second…

Same routine as above, but this time, the mail was probably longer and after another seven minutes, we started where we had left off. Only, we couldn’t. His Blackberry kept beeping and after about five e-mail sessions, I’ve had enough.



Article Tools
Index
E-mail Email this article