Posted by kevin on 20. August 2009 23:33
As it turns out, you may be offending your friends or upsetting your boss and not even know it. I had a co-worker who, when I sent him meeting requests, always accepted them as tentative. I always found this to be a touch snotty. Why not just fully accept? Or talk to me about why its tentative? As you can see, it was a little frustrating. Well, last week, I received a meeting from another member of my team, here and accepted it on my iPhone. I got response from that person jokingly asking me why I was tentative about his request. As it turns out, this is a known bug in the iPhone that goes all the way back to the 2.0 firmware that they just haven’t got around to fixing yet. So, if you are iPhone user, you have a couple of options:
1. Let everyone know that your iPhone has this cool “feature” and that when you say tentative, you really mean “for sure”
2. Wait until you are at your desk to accept invites on your mail client
3. Ignore the problem and hope the people sending you these invites aren’t easily offended
Whatever you choose to do, just remember that business is all about communication. Don’t let important meetings break down because your phone thinks you may have something better to do that day