the phone call is more convenient as it can be placed from anywhere

And that’s half the problem. My job deals with things that physically exist, and if you can’t be bothered to get your ass in here to actually look at it, I can’t be bothered to deal with whatever your problem of the day is (yes I’m getting bitter about engineers sitting at home telling me “BuT iT wOrKs iN CAD”).

Also, in person conversations are far more effective than phone conversations. Human communication is far more than just purely verbal.

Email tends to have less expectation for immediate response and doesn’t have unavoidable “message read” notifications. Most importantly, in my experience at least, people tend to put more details into an email. Texts, teams messages, etc seem to cause people to try and speak in single sentences, and then I have to play 21 questions to drag the info out of them.

Either send me an email and you’ll get an answer when you get an answer, or come see me in person. Phone calls and text messages are annoying as shit.

Nah, the trick is to write $20 on it. Then someone will steal it and your problem is completely gone.

The analogy kind of falls apart since she is not limited to this guy and Chad. She’s free to choose nothing at all. With Trump vs Biden, there’s no viable third option, and having no president is not one of the options. So the “Trump is worse” argument becomes viable simply because you do have to choose one of them.