Does anyone use this technique? Is it used on you?
Senior management wants to ask you to do something, get your feedback, etc. But instead of calling directly, they call into your voicemail mailbox and leave a message.
They know full well that you're sitting at your desk, they just aren't all that interested in having a conversation. It's just the way they do things. Everyone's used to it.
At my place of work the voicemail driveby generally comes from older people. Maybe they aren't comfortable with newer forms of one-way communication like email.
I'm going to try this out. For one week, I'm going to deliver all my messages via voicemail. It'll be my own little sociological experiment.
