摘要
商旅达人的够魇:我从北美洲乘坐15个小时的飞机来到亚洲某个机场,一下飞机便打开我的黑莓手机。我既没有注意到周围的新环境,也没有盘算如何搭车进城,而是一头扎进了达一路收到的几十封电子邮件里。在这些邮件中,有三分之一需要认真回复,还有一两封发来了令人担忧的消息。似乎这还不足以让人心烦:整个旅行中,由于存在12个小时的时差,在亚洲醒来的每天早晨,我都要收到一大堆来自美国东海岸的邮件,同样需要回复,同样传来了亟待处理的问题。
Road-warrior hell: I get off a 15-hour flight from North America and turn on my BlackBerry at some Asian airport. Instead of focusing on the immediateenvironment and the ride into town,I am engrossed in theseveral dozen e-mails that piled up while I was en route, a third of which require a serious response, and one or two of which relay worrying news.