Voicemail should be banned
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Since about 2006 my voicemail message has been "for a faster response send me a text message." When I started my business I added my business name and rerecorded the rest. If a client can't send a text instead of call then I'm going to charge them more.
That's a greater idea I'm doing that
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I work with engineers in an industry where not having a written exchange of info to refer to and/or CYA is unthinkable. I got my latest company phone 17 months ago and have not set up the voicemail yet.
Only production matters, so why use something slow, inefficient, that also does not provide an automatic written record to cover your ass.
If you call me with a request to do work or give me important information, I will tell you to text or email that to me.
I agree many meetings should be emails. But when meetings happen, generally someone takes minutes and notes down actions so, that covers that base I suppose.
Secondly, if I'm your employer, or your client, and I call you with a request, or a job, then it's probably in your best interest to get it done. Sure, a follow up email is sometimes warranted, but not always. People who refuse to use the phone to communicate verbally are only disadvantaging themselves. -
When I had a work mobile phone in Australia I had my voicemail saying I was on leave and to call the office.
The boss wasn't happy, but the customers actually called the service desk because of it.
Your boss would be breaking the law in Australia, now explicitly under the new right to disconnect legislation, if they said anything about it.
(Though, could have probably been argued in the past also as unpaid overtime in the past)
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The absolute worst thing about voicemail is that you can't just listen to the one you just got. I have about 50 unheard voicemails at this point. You leave one? I have to work my way through 50 just to hear yours. And it doesn't even let me work from most recent. Nope. Just never going to happen.
huh? Android lets you pick from a menu.
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Your boss would be breaking the law in Australia, now explicitly under the new right to disconnect legislation, if they said anything about it.
(Though, could have probably been argued in the past also as unpaid overtime in the past)
This was a decade ago. He was actually annoyed that I didn't change it after I got back from holidays.
So I was working, the customer would call and get the voicemail on my mobile, then call the main support line and got me.
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The True Crime here is an 11 year old child with a (I suppose) Smartphone.
Whatever you say Grandpa
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Then the person sends you a 2 minute long audio over whatsapp
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The True Crime here is an 11 year old child with a (I suppose) Smartphone.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I would totally understand if it was in a place where your kids can take a walk or public transport to school or other places on their own. I would also want them to have means to call you.
EDIT: my bad, I ignored the 'smart' bit there. I just meant any phone.
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Can be a normal phone which is what I would do if I where a parent and my kid would have to bike 12 km to school every day.
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. I'd just like to mention that it was perfectly normal for kids to go on 12km without a phone not so long ago, and I don't think there's anything wrong with it now. Parents worry too much. I mean, it's a biological impulse that makes a lot of sense, but it's often over done.
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Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. I'd just like to mention that it was perfectly normal for kids to go on 12km without a phone not so long ago, and I don't think there's anything wrong with it now. Parents worry too much. I mean, it's a biological impulse that makes a lot of sense, but it's often over done.
Well yeah, but it is always good to carry a phone with you especially when you bike through somewhere where there isn't a lot of other traffic or it is off your unusual route. There is nothing wrong with carrying a Nokia 3310 or something
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Well yeah, but it is always good to carry a phone with you especially when you bike through somewhere where there isn't a lot of other traffic or it is off your unusual route. There is nothing wrong with carrying a Nokia 3310 or something
Ye, I think it's fine either way, nokia or no phone at all. I cycled 17km to school from age 12 to 17 and only got my first phone when I was 18 and moved out. Of course I did get a flat tire a couple of times, but then I'd just walk or sat at the back of the bicycke of a friend.
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Whatever you say Grandpa
Ok, brainrot
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That's actually really smart lol
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Mine is "You have reached my phone but not me, I don't really check voicemail, if you need to reach me, text." I still get voicemail.
Some voicemail the phone will transcribe, those I read but really don't listen to them.
Some people just can't fathom communicating other than a voice call lol
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Ye, I think it's fine either way, nokia or no phone at all. I cycled 17km to school from age 12 to 17 and only got my first phone when I was 18 and moved out. Of course I did get a flat tire a couple of times, but then I'd just walk or sat at the back of the bicycke of a friend.
And what if you fell while you where alone and broke a leg making it impossible for you to walk? Or you friend fell and hit his head open on the road being able to call for help is actually pretty handy.
Like it might sound absurd, but shit happens
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And what if you fell while you where alone and broke a leg making it impossible for you to walk? Or you friend fell and hit his head open on the road being able to call for help is actually pretty handy.
Like it might sound absurd, but shit happens
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I suppose living in the Netherlands, a pretty crowded place, assures you that you're rarely ever alone in the middle of nowhere for very long. But yes that is handy and I can totally understand parents feeling comfortable with their kids being able to call for help if anything ever happens to them.
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Ok, brainrot
I think I was maybe 12 when I got my first smartphone, admittedly they weren't really a thing much earlier than that and while I definitely have issues I'm pretty sure none of them were caused by the phone
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Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. I'd just like to mention that it was perfectly normal for kids to go on 12km without a phone not so long ago, and I don't think there's anything wrong with it now. Parents worry too much. I mean, it's a biological impulse that makes a lot of sense, but it's often over done.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I think a lot more kids got napped in the States before cellphones were common
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The absolute worst thing about voicemail is that you can't just listen to the one you just got. I have about 50 unheard voicemails at this point. You leave one? I have to work my way through 50 just to hear yours. And it doesn't even let me work from most recent. Nope. Just never going to happen.
Life must really suck when you're too dumb to know how things work.
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Then the person sends you a 2 minute long audio over whatsapp
At least I can get a transcript and speed it up a bit
