Communications and Accountability, modern times

I Shall pass this way but once.....and sometimes I get "Irked" as my father called it.

Communications with other human beings does not have to be difficult, people in our modern culture of phones, cell phones, computers and email, walkie talkie's, whatever.....they choose to make communications difficult in spite of all of these means available to convey an answer to a question, an update on a question, a status to a situation.

I have come to embrace so many of these dear hearted people that I am ready to explode at times with the lack of communications., only because the people on the other end don't seem to think you need to have some sort of answer.

At work we pre-pay down payments on insurance policies for many of the clientel, this money is due upon receipt of invoice, it is to be a short term convenience for them, I have invoices open from last August, that my friends is ten months, ten months that my boss has fronted this interest free money for people who won't answer our status inquiries. It is I who get to chase these people...and try to chip away at their wallets. It is I who have had my fill.

With Avon, I have people who order shoes (my personal opinion is if you want shoes....go to a shoe store*) in a custom size of 10, and after I pay shipping and handling on this....they won't respond to my calls or my emails that I need to make delivery to them. So I end up paying shipping and handling twice on something some flake ordered and couldn't pay for. I am not allowed to collect up front.

With Avon I have order deadlines, I check with my people to see if they need anything ordered this thursday as in yesterday, and as of this morning I still do not have answer, many times they will send their orders at 10:45 on friday, I am at work....and I see this and somehow have to sneek it through to Avon to meet my very real friday noon deadline for shipment. All of the inquiries were sent the last two days prior to friday. Plenty of texts and calls and emails the other 28 days of the month.

Well this all leads into the personal angles of life as well, check on something, get nothing. Try to talk about something, get diverted, and still you will get nothing. Phones and texts ring all day, can you gt a call that they're falling off of the earth for 24 hours, no but they'll call you to see if you remembered to do such and such for them, or to ask for directions on the days they're lost.

It's incredible.... and so I make my point here that I have decided to give up on Communications. I will use it at the grocery store, where they still usually know how to respond..