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Thread: Do you answer your phone?
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06-18-2022, 01:16 AM #26
Most of the spam calls I get are spoofed local numbers. Pretty much no one I know has a cell phone with a local number. So I don't answer any of those unless I'm waiting for a call. Always figure if it's a real caller they'll leave a msg. Which is also annoying since the pixel recites so many unnecessary details when replaying messages and I can't seem to skip those.
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06-18-2022, 09:57 AM #27
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06-18-2022, 10:28 AM #28
My kids, age 18 and 19, don't answer for anyone not in their contacts... and have never even set up voicemail. It's a miracle that they seem to be able to find a job when they are looking for one.
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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06-18-2022, 11:01 AM #29Registered User
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Yup a salesman is pretty much obligated to answer but... \/ \/
Yes. Please text me, I will get back to you asap.
I mostly like how my Pixel 6 handles auto callers by screening the call. I get at least a half dozen calls a day that go straight to screening and the phone doesn't ring just buzzes with the notification that it was called.
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06-18-2022, 11:22 AM #30
I stopped answering the phone for the Red Cross. So now they call me from unknown numbers. I answered one on a hunch that it was them. Yup. Not gonna answer any more.
I started giving blood again this year. It makes me really queasy and can lead to a panic attack. So I don't mind doing it, I just have to go at my own pace and be in the right frame of mind. Those fuckers call me before the minimum time is up so they can try to schedule it the day I am eligible. Where else can I donate blood to avoid these pushy motgerfuckers?
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06-18-2022, 11:25 AM #31
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06-18-2022, 12:22 PM #32
Try answering this way
I do this about once a year or so when bored
Usually play the role of desk sergeant who is monitoring phones from dead people.
It can be quite entertaining
Spam calls go to zero for about a month afterwards
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06-18-2022, 12:49 PM #33
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06-18-2022, 12:56 PM #34Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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06-18-2022, 01:05 PM #35
Your local trauma center might run their own blood donor program? I know the Army (probably military as a whole) has set up their own donor programs to cut the Red Cross middle man out of the picture.
On topic, I only pic up unknown numbers from area code that surrounds my work.
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06-18-2022, 01:16 PM #36
~75% of my work communication is phone calls; maybe 40+ calls a day. Email is only really used to notify/document. So yes, I answer my phone.
I also have noticed that when I communicate with someone outside of my industry; making a phone call is almost a super power in a weird way. If you can get someone on the phone you can cut the email inbox line and get action immediately.
~90% of tech talk threads would not exist if you all could just pick up the phone and call the manufacturer / shop and ask the question to the real expert. I find a lot of the threads pretty comical / lazy in that regard…
- “Is this ____ damage warranty-able?”
- “Does this boot fit this binding?”
- “I sent an email to the manufacturer and they haven’t responded yet…”
***well did you try calling them?***
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06-21-2022, 12:42 PM #37
I'm a construction project manager so yea I pick up calls from unknown local numbers during normal business hours, could be a new foreman/subcontractor, etc. trying to get a question answered quickly... after 4pm it's contacts only though, and I block all spam numbers immediately after I find out they're fakes or bullshit sales calls
my head is perpetually in the clouds
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06-21-2022, 12:47 PM #38
Almost never. I think the only people I'd answer a call from are my wife and my parents.
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06-21-2022, 01:28 PM #39
Never for unknown numbers and Sometimes for contacts if I know it’s relevant to my current place and time. I currently have 297 unheard voice mails, so you know what to not do when calling.
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06-21-2022, 03:14 PM #40
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06-21-2022, 03:42 PM #41Registered User
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I answer all numbers… all the time.
What are you all so afraid of?
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06-21-2022, 05:47 PM #42
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06-21-2022, 11:25 PM #43
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06-22-2022, 05:25 AM #44
^^^^^ funny.
But they’re more like telegrams than letters.
Kids today might not get the telegram joke, however.
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06-22-2022, 01:29 PM #45
That’s a weird take. I don’t get it.
“Hey you around tonite to catch up?”
“Yeah gimme a call after 9”
Simple, gets the job done. I Spend 4-6h on phone or zoom 5 days per week for my day job.
I value my personal time and will not get sniped by some lonely friend who scrolls thru their phone trolling for someone to talk to.
But yeah I get that some people love to chat endlessly on the phone and there’s someone out there for them I’m sure.
All that said I know some couples who talk on the phone to their SO every day while at work. I can’t even imagine doing that.
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06-23-2022, 06:27 AM #46
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06-23-2022, 06:54 AM #47
I sometimes wax nostalgic for the days of coming home to a bunch of messages on the cassette tape machine.
And not having been bothered all day with phone calls and interwebs.
I will often leave my dumb phone home when going out on a weekend.
It’s cathartically refreshing
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06-23-2022, 08:08 AM #48
No, and the voicemail box has been full for at least 10 years, and I will never empty it. If you need to get in touch, send a text or an email. If you are a client or a potential client....how the fuck did you get my cell number in the first place? Try my office, but I'm probably golfing.
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06-23-2022, 08:51 AM #49
There are other options. If you don't want to answer your phone don't carry it. If you don't want people to leave voicemails, disable voicemail. If you don't want texts just have a landline. It's funny that we carry around a cell phone and get annoyed when people try to contact us on it. Or maybe we want to be able to contact people whenever WE feel like it but don't want other people to do that to us?
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06-23-2022, 08:59 AM #50Banned
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