Online chat:
A: Hi Joe
B: Hi
A: Did you read my email from yesterday?
B: (2 min delay) Are you sure you pressed "send"? Perhaps you mistyped your mail password?
A: We have a problem with your report. It totals the data wrongly.
B: (7min delay) It's not a report. It has no totaling. You sure you understand how it works?
A: Never mind.
Re: AXESMI:
Wally is going for the Gold as far as not working is concerned. If all of his contact is through the internet, no one can tell if he is working or not.
That's why I work for people via the internet! This is really the age of the freelancer, now that the interwebs are readily available and offering the kind of speed and reliability necessary.