Declan Murphy wrote:
> On May 25, 4:31 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Declan Murphy wrote:
>>> On May 17, 8:22 am, Jim Breen <jimbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Declan Murphy wrote:
>>>>> Ever since I added the "not helpful" file to my site, I get bugger all
>>>>> requests for that kind of crap. Try something similar?
>>>>> http://www.yamasa.org/member/declan/not_helpful.html
>>>> My page at:http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/say_noh.html
>>>> has cut down requests mightily too.
>>> And yours is actually helpful :-)  I might add a bit about spelling,
>>> punctuation etc too. At the moment what is really pissing me off
>>> though is people calling me using Skype etc.
>> As soon as I set Skype to only accept calls from people on my calling
>> list things got a lot quieter.  No more drunk Estonian teenagers at 0400
>> in the morning.
> 
> I don't use Skype at work. The problem is people using Skype and
> equivalents to call our normal telephone numbers to ask questions,
> instead of just reading the website or writing an email. It adds a
> fair bit to labor costs and reduces our productivity a fair bit.

Unfortunately, my business involves making contact with lawyers in 
several countries and, since all of them have such a short attention 
span, I have to be prepared to speak with them at all times of the day 
or night or they might take their business to the next person who 
answers their phone.

The one universal truth about lawyers seems to be that if the sun is 
shining where they are, they just cannot comprehend that it might be the 
middle of the night where you are.  I used to think that California 
lawyers were the worst but European lawyers, the Swiss in particular, 
can stand toe-to-toe with the most clueless of the US ones.

CL