<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I think it greatly predates smart phones. (Though I agree on the common sense draining effect)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">When I was working in academia (you have no idea how cool it is to type that "when I was" thing), every month or so some stuffed shirt administrator would send out a memo saying that any time there was more than a paragraph to send, we should avoid email and use the phone. Because, as far as I can tell, they were all too freaking lazy to READ more than a paragraph, and their management style depended on the ability to selectively forget what anyone told them.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">That, and they probably knew I kept copies of everything and when they would claim they never heard a particular concern, I would send them their email responses to the last 12 times I raised it to them over the previous 10 years.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I suppose they ALSO find it cool that I can type "when I was working..."</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">;-)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dave Tosti-Lane</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Dave Vick via Stagecraft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Jerry Durand via Stagecraft<br>
<<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Seems Smart Phones have drained what little common sense there was out of<br>
> the populace.<br>
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</span>Truer words were never spoken.<br>
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Dave Vick<br>
Automation Carpenter/Rigger,<br>
"Dirty Dancing" North American Tour '14-'15<br>
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