Re: Office Assistants [was Mailers]

[Steve Hahn <steve_mieco@HOTMAIL.COM>]

Studies show that Americans waste an average of 96 hours per year pressing
the delete key.

Of course, this pales in comparison to the 420 hours/year that Americans
waste at traffic lights, 512 hours/year eating meals, and 832 hours/year
watching Urkel reruns.

>From: Steve Schelske <skschelske@AAAMICHIGAN.COM>
>Reply-To: SQR-USERS@list.iex.net
>To: Multiple recipients of list SQR-USERS <SQR-USERS@list.iex.net>
>Subject: Re: Office Assistants [was Mailers]
>Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 10:24:46 -0400
>
><I, too, have been momentarily annoyed when I posted and got 3-5 office
><assistant replies telling me that some person I didn't know could be
>reached
><at a certain pager number.  Then I realized that if I just deleted the
><message and moved on with my day, my stress level didn't have to rise at
>all
><and no more of my time would have to be 'wasted'. =)
>
>I'm glad you've found the enlightenment, peace, and contentment that can
>come from spending a few 1/100's of a second with your delete key.
>Congratulations.
>
>I would wager that if you took all of the combined time it has taken to
>press the delete key to rid yourself of unwanted office assistant replies,
>it would come no where close to the amount of time you *previously*
>obsessed
>over the fact that you were receiving these messages.
>
>Perhaps others could follow your example...

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