I’m aware we all have different phones, (carried communications devices) and we use them differently, each of us. I’m curious about leaving messages. Most of the time my cellphone is off and my landline is off the hook. I’m literally saving you time when my phone is off, it goes straight to VM, you need not wait 5 rings to realize I’m not there/in the shower/ experiencing orgasms/ wielding in a hole/ performing a surgical procedure. My complaint is that when I get my messages- someone obviously waited to hear my outgoing message, realized its me, had something to say originally, then click. Left no message. Funny, that. Did everybody suddenly forget that leaving a message would be a great way to let the person know whats going on? My favorite is: “Hey, I gotta talk to you about something!” I work nights, I’m getting that message at 3 A.M., I can’t help you with whatever it is until 5 more hours, at least give a clue. How in our culture did using these devices lead you to believe that you could catch the intended person live each and every call? If you are driving on the phone you get a ticket, if you’re at work you are wasting your employers’ time. Also, if you don’t leave your callback number I gotta turn on the phone, punch through the messages you didn’t leave, go to “previous caller history”, try and find your number, then, what, call you back at 3 A.M.? Fuck Ya. Thanks to you I hate the phone. Its a waste of time talking to people anyway.

7 replies on “How Phones Work… Or Not”

  1. You’re sharing my page I/A. Outside of being able to call AAA
    from where your car broke down or call the police about a
    crime in progress, they’re really just mini-pinball machines.
    We never answer a call on our land line without hearing the
    screen. They’re mostly just insurance agents or first alert
    device salespeople. Thank God for call block and the National
    No Call list.

  3. It reminds me of that Bill Maher bit where we’re a nation that communicates via voicemails, and how it’s actually rude to answer when someone is calling. “How awkward, you mean I actually have to talk to you now?”

    I’m sure if what they had to say was important they’d leave a message. Otherwise they probably just wanted to chitchat. Weird you’re so heated about this.

  4. Yeah, sometimes people call just to see how you’re doing. Or maybe they want to invite you to something happening immediately or in the near future.

    Then again, I resent anyone that doesn’t just text anyway.

  5. If a voicemail is over ten seconds it should be an email. If it has that much actual information to convey write it down so it is succesfully communicated. Dont need to hear your voice anyway, it annoys me.

  7. I never leave msgs. I can’t stand waiting for that dumbass operator to tell me how to successfully press # when I’m through or how to leave my callback number, etc. I think after 20 years of voicemail, I get the concept.

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