Stop Tweeting for Advice, Make a Call

Profanity Warning! Profanity Warning!! Profanity Warning!!!

I prefer phone calls over text messages. Mostly because Phone calls are quicker and I can hear a person's emotions. In my professional world, I only text Appointment or Out of Office Date reminders. If a client texts me, I call them back. But that is in my professional world. In another professional world, a man resigned from his job because he thought a message from his superior was a random sex date. Read about it HERE.

See, what a phone call could have cleared all of this up.

"Hey, Corey. This is your boss"

"Hey Boss"

"I need you to come in at 12"

"Oh Ok"

"Ok See you then"

"Yeah Bye"

I understand how Mr. Hrobowski thought this was a d*ck appointment. And yes, he could have texted back "Who is this". But (and a Big but it will be), his boss knew that she had a new number and also her text is not the most professional.

She could have text an apology after revealing who she was. With the rise of spam, scams, & phishing, the superior could have had some understanding at first. I say at first because Mr. Hrobowski needed to tweet for professional advice. His actions on Twitter brought an unnecessary worldwide light on this awkward situation. Before his tweets, I would have had a professional meeting with Human Resource & him to clear up the situation. But once he brought Twitter into it...Hey, he could've gotten fired.

But this is a prime example of what communication has come to in the world. Instead of correcting her text message, his boss decided to look up slang terms until 10 pm. Instead of taking a breath and asking "Who is This" or saying "Ok" after he found out who it was, Cory Hrobowski got on Twitter & is now added to the unemployment numbers. And now you, my readers have to see me wag my finger of correction.

Learn how to use your words, people.  Words have definitions. But we won't know what anything means if we don't communicate, properly.

As Always Talking to You In Adult Terms!