I tried getting season tickets for a local baseball team but the ordering system was quite literally designed for old people and was driving me insane:
there’s no actual order page online, just this ‘contact us for info!’ button where you have to write them a bespoke little email - like, to a person, not just a form to fill out - and I did that and the dude ///called me//// and didn’t answer when I tried to call back — why for the love of God take this to the phone?? I emailed them!!! I didn’t even want to email them, i wanted to fill out a webpage and put my credit card in! and they throw up all these smarmy sAlEsMaN roadblocks, like jesus man
like is this seriously meant to be like ‘oh that’s such good customer service’ to someone?
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.
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.
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.
In your case, it doesn’t sound like someone being rude, more like a poorly designed system. In general, I think it’s courteous to warn people about it. Like when I receive an email that would require a lengthy response, I could write “Easier to do this on the phone. Can I call you later?” and that’s always been fine.
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.
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.
