Your boss left you a message. Want to hear it? Pay up!
By Timothy Noah
Last week I performed a little experiment. I asked Slate intern Rebecca Rothfeld to phone me via Skype, the software app that turns your computer into a telephone and lets you talk and even video-chat with people around the globe free of charge. I instructed Rothfeld to pay $6 to sign up for three months of Skype voice mail. (Memo to self: Remember to reimburse Rothfeld!) Then I told Rothfeld to go ahead and contact me via Skype. Before she had a chance to get through, I logged off Skype and found something else to occupy my attention...[continued]
