Monday, March 07, 2005

IM Junkies

I work with a bunch of IM junkies.
Seems there was another outbreak of the same virus that hit IM a couple of weeks ago.  Last time IM was down for almost two days, this time we more fortunate.  They were able to fix the problems by noon.
In the time it took them to fix the issues I received no less than 5 emails from 5 different people stating that IM was down.  Talk about IM junkies.  Half the people who wrote to me never IM me to begin with.  They are on my contact list, I believe that I am on theirs, but we don’t regularly utilize IM to communicate. 
Once IM was restored I was involved in 6 IM conversations.  Normally I don’t IM THAT much.  I do spend a fair amount of time IMing people, but usually I try to spread it out so I am not talking to everyone all at once.  It can become difficult to converse with 3 people at once all about different things.  And, inevitably, when this is happening my phone rings.  Today it was both lines.
IM junkies I’m telling you, I’m surrounded!