Saturday, April 07, 2007

The Instantaneousness in Life

The other day my friend quang tran wanted a ride to take him to KFC and we went there and he ordered but the girl there said its going to take 5-10 min then he changed his order and got something else. I went to the pizza hut and ordered bread sticks and it took more than 20 min for them to do it( I didn't knew what took them so long) and when i was about to pay they didn't charge me for that because they could not serve the order in time. I was talking to one of my friends who works at the check out counter in the Walmart. She said me that they are paid more if they can check out the customers as soon as possible and if they are not able to they are shifted to other departments. I wonder how many ways we communicate daily with our friends using various instant messengers and most of them prefer this since the response is instantaneous.
Did you observe a particular trend just with this four instances I mentioned? The trend is
No One wants to Wait ,every thing should happen instantaneously whether it is an order or a conversation with friend .
There are some things in life that definitely need time to think , instantaneousness doesn't work there although we are so used to the instant decisions making process which may make us bit uncomfortable frustrated because of the time it takes, nevertheless they are worth giving the time.


1 comment:

gt said...

Your post reminds me of a personal incident at Olive Garden. My ticket was on the house because they served us (a party of 5) 45 minutes late. I think that they got away with less because they wasted my time. Time is money. So, instead of paying you back they just waive what you ate. That was smart marketing on their part and we are naïve to fall for it.