Title: Sin t
1Welcome to the era of ...
COMMUNICATIONS WITHOUT LIMITS!!
2a rrring a
3Hello Bob?
Did you review the contract I sent you?
4- ... So its finished? Youll send it to me by
e-mail?
- My e-mail address? Frankly, I dont remember
it !!!
5- Just a minute, let me check.
-NICOOOLE, ... WHATS MY E-MAIL ADDRESS?
6- No, no, thats my home e-mail address!
- Listen, I cant find it. Let me check and call
you back.
7- Oh!... Youre going for lunch...
OK, Ill send you the address by fax. Youll have
it when you get back. OK?
8OK. So give me your fax number.
- What! You dont know it?
9- OK, heres what well do. You e-mail me your
fax number and Ill fax you my e-mail address.
- No, that wont work. Wait, Im getting
mixed up... Let me think...
10So Hum OK Well Yeah
11- Whats your cell-phone number?
- Oh, your battery is dead ... Mine too...
12- OK, listen, heres what well do...
- You charge your cell-phone battery, Ill call
you in a couple of hours and leave you my e-mail
address in your voice mail.
13- Then you take my e-mail address in your voice
mail and you e-mail me your fax number.
- Then I can fax you my e-mail address.
14- Thats plan A. Now for plan B!
I send myself an e-mail to see what my e-mail
address is and then I record a message for you
in my voice mail....
15when you get it, you send me the answer on my
pager...
so then, I send you a fax with my e-mail address.
16- Complicated? No, its not at all complicated.
- We just need a bit of coordination... and luck...
17- Theres also a third possibility thats much
simpler plan C... - You send me the contract directly by express
messenger.
- Yeah!... Its the best plan strategically
speaking...
18- But actually, I have a small question...
what was I supposed to send you by e-mail? My
e-mail address, my fax number, my cell
number, pager, telephone?
19- Oh! You dont remember either.
- It would probably be a good idea to have
periodic bilateral coordination meetings
concerning protocols for internal communications.
20- But anyway, since your office is at the other
end of the corridor, Ill come by to pick it up
in 2 minutes... OK? Bye!
21And the moral Thanks to technology, we can now
waste time with an efficiency until now
unimaginable, all in the name of saving time