Wallops PAO Is Too Lazy To Pick Up The Phone
@OrbitalSciences When is the Antares launch? Please issue an update on the launch date.
— NASA Wallops (@NASA_Wallops) July 2, 2014
Keith’s note: I have seen some lazy PAO staff but this one takes the cake. Are there any pros at Wallops PAO? How about picking up a telephone and calling Orbital?
Keith’s update: Earlier today I sent the original response out via @ISEE3 Reboot – obviously by mistake since I thought I was using @NASAWatch. My apologies. I was live tweeting while sitting in a hospital room with a familiy member in critical condition and did not click the correct button on a small computer screen. I made a mistake just like the NASA Wallops PAO team did.
Keith’s update: Someone deleted the tweet. This is what it looked like.
I’d guess that whoever runs the twitter feeds for Orbital and Wallops know each other. and hey, they got an answer so it worked. i know lots of people who only communicate through facebook statuses / twitter replies lol
you are right, though. not really professional.
Hello. I am familiar with this. These people are ‘too’ lazy. They do not feel any obligation to answer questions from the public even though that should be a part of their job. To them it is just a job. Both should be FIRED immediately!
Dunno, Keith…I’m ok with texting as a way to get quick answers, and tweets are just a subset of texting (or maybe it’s the other way around!)…perhaps the guy wanted to tweak Orbital into getting stuff out? And in any case it’s a question/answer with public interest.
I was a little confused at first, but now I got it. Yeah, I would not post a public tweet like this to find out this information so you could make a public tweet or whatever update yourself. Next time just post the actual update and figure it out another way. Not the end of the world, but not professional.
I hope you relative gets better soon.
Im still waiting for the “@orbitalsciences Hey you want to go to Wolf’s sandwich shop for a burger later?”