Changing our view of being disconnected

As I twittered last week I was shocked by a recent recruiter cell phone conversation:

“... yes, I’m returning your call from my car on the way up to the Sierra’s. My family and I are going camping and will be entirely out of touch for the next four days so i wanted to be sure to return your call now before we are entirely incommunicado.”
“OK. Great. Can you send me a quick email so I can confirm with my partner why we called you in the first place?”
“Yes, no problem. I’ll send you a quick email from my phone.”

I figured he wanted my email address, correct spelling of my name, my contact information... A few minutes later I get an email response with a very terse statement: You didn’t include your resume.

Are you serious? What part of this conversation was missing? I am in a car on my way up to the mountains. I will be completely without internet or cell phone access. Now I could make a statement about the recruiters ability to listen however I think that there was something even more fundamental missing in the communications. That is that incommunicado didn’t include access to the Internet. Have we gotten to a point in our technological adoption that there is an unspoken expectation that no one would really want to go somewhere where they would be forced to be completely unconnected?

I have become a bit hypersensitive to the connected mass transit options and I remember how excited the employees of a previous employer became when they announced the fully Internet connected shuttles. I admit that I once joked to a co-worker who also happened to be a virtual employee (one without an office that is) that he should simply get on a San Francisco - Palo Alto shuttle buss in the morning and stay aboard as it runs back and forth between SF and PA. He had a cell phone and a laptop and the shuttle had a wireless internet connection. The only reasons to get off were for lunch and a potty break...

So here we were actually choosing to go somewhere entirely disconnected (sorry, AT&T no bars where we were) and the expectation was that I would still be able to forward a resume on. Don’t laugh but my alternative was to direct the recruiter to my LinkedIn profile. Unfortunately I didn’t get a call back. I guess that if I was serious I would not be trying to take a vacation.