reliability

re•ly\ to have confidence: trust.
re•li•able\ fit to be relied on.

I don’t know why this is such a foreign concept. Maybe I’m a fossil. I was taught personal responsibility as soon as I could form sentences more complex than See Spot Run.

If I call someone, I expect a return call. Ditto if I email them. This applies double if it’s anything to do with business. If someone says they’ll call me, I expect them to do so. Why does this never happen?

If someone tells me I’ve been offered a job, I assume they mean it. It blows me away when I get a cavalier phone call saying “never mind.” “We were just kidding. We really didn’t offer you x, y, or z.” Of course, that’s assuming I even get a phone call telling me they’ve changed their minds. I’ve had that sort of news filter back to me in rumors and innuendo. It’s crazzzzzy.

If someone asks me to do something, and I say I will, I will. Again, I am just floored if anyone should doubt that my word is not good. Does that means theirs isn’t? I think so.