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Originally Posted by jadangel
I work in a law office. People will call me and ask for phone numbers for other attorney offices, clerks offices, probation & parole numbers, the list is endless..... Even though I could easily look up the number and give it to them, I don't....I tell them to call information or look it up in the phone book.....Does that make me an asshole? Yes.... But dammit I am not a human phone book.....wait a minute, I think they are the assholes for thinking I am........hmmm
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Consider the goodwill and professionalism that may be earned through the 5 minutes it takes to look up a phone number. No harm in saying, "Well, I'm a little busy right now, can you look it up in a phonebook?" but, "go find it yourself" (as my law supervisor frequently told me--worst professor I've ever had) does not a friend make.