At my job, one of my duties is to talk to other coworkers, either by email, phone, or in person, which is expected. Most jobs you have to talk to coworkers, so this shouldn’t be a surprise. Most of the time I'm helping them out, but sometimes I'm the one needing help or information. I understand that people are busy so you leave a voice message or send an email, and you would think that the person would respond back, right? Well in my case it seems like every time I leave a voice mail or send an email it just gets ignored. Now I don’t expect a response immediately, but at least something within a couple days. You could say that they just forgot, I guess but that doesn’t seem likely.

Last week I sent an email to maybe 10 people, I heard back from 3 maybe 4. I talk to a few, and left a message with the rest. I guarantee come middle of next week I still wouldn’t have heard from them. Oh and I have been trying to get a hold of someone for a few weeks, I have left him like 4 voice mail messages. Have I heard from him, of course not. Most of these people are managers/directors, not mine. Well I have actually tried getting a hold of my manger a few times and of course I was ignored. This happens to me all of the time.

So in order to get information, it seems that you can’t use a phone or email; you have to confront the person, at least at my place of employment. So if people are not going to use these tools, why have them?

I don’t know, maybe it is me. Maybe I’m saying something I shouldn’t, maybe it is because I don’t work for them directly, or because I’m just a little peon. Maybe people are not as helpful as I though, granted I probably have done it. I’m probably overreacting, but it drives me crazy.