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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.
The rules are simple:
- The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
- The comic must be a complete story.
- If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
- You may post comics from others or your own.
- If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
- The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
- Politeness.
- Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.
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Text messages and emails allow the recipient to handle them on their terms. You can pick them up when you are not doing something else, you can re-read them, you can lookup information, you can put thought on a reply. A phone call will interrupt whatever the recipient is doing and put them on the spot.
emails definitely have a purpose and i often request an email when i know there is information that will need to be referenced more than once.
but just like a picture is worth a thousand words, a phone call can clear things up in seconds that might have taken an hour to type effectively, days to respond to, and still might not get the actual answer you're looking for.
And in cases like that, its appropriate to text first to agree upon a time for that phone call.
between work colleagues, sure, but if it's a government office or just a business, there's no way i'm going through all the channels online. i've had many cases where a bureaucracy would have crushed my request, but because i got through to a living being, the matter was cleared up in minutes.