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    I'm an old guy, but I hate voice mail. Mine says "You can try to leave a message, but it's probably full, and I'll never listen to it anyway, so either send a text to this number, or send an email to XXX, and I'll get back to you ASAP."

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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.

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        I don’t like voicemail typically, but I have some voicemails from family members who have passed away and I cherish listening to them.

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          Mine emails me an attachment with the recording. It's a lot easier than the old call up voicemail to listen to your messages etc. Lot of people prefer it to writing with their phones.

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            Por que no los dos? I'm just saying. In a professional setting, when they don't respond to text or email, you can follow up with a text that says, "I left your dumbass a voice mail if you don't feel like reading."

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              I'm an old guy, but I hate voice mail. Mine says "You can try to leave a message, but it's probably full, and I'll never listen to it anyway, so either send a text to this number, or send an email to XXX, and I'll get back to you ASAP."

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              This is the way.

              Though, I have found that the default message of "pinball_wizard has not configured their voicemail" conveys the same message pretty effectively, too.

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                Yeah, until she applies for a job and the recruiter tried to call her to offer an interview.

                For me the most annoying part of voicemail is navigating through the menu. But I'm also not scared of taking to people on the phone so perhaps my opinion doesn't count here.

                Good luck to her when she wants to start being taken seriously.

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                  I'm an old guy, but I hate voice mail. Mine says "You can try to leave a message, but it's probably full, and I'll never listen to it anyway, so either send a text to this number, or send an email to XXX, and I'll get back to you ASAP."

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                  I used to troll with mine and spell out my name, phone number, email address, website, all twice.

                  Most voice-mails I got were like "JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WHY IS YOUR MESSAGE SO LONG"

                  top kek

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                  • pfr@lemmy.sdf.orgP [email protected]

                    Yeah, until she applies for a job and the recruiter tried to call her to offer an interview.

                    For me the most annoying part of voicemail is navigating through the menu. But I'm also not scared of taking to people on the phone so perhaps my opinion doesn't count here.

                    Good luck to her when she wants to start being taken seriously.

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                    lol, only production matters child, once you are ready to become a Worker™, then you you will be required to use voicemail

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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.

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                      I used to use an app called Hullomail which brought them into an app as voice clips you can see the caller and play or export.

                      It also showed you missed calls while your phone was off since they can just flag when a call was redirected to them. Super useful.

                      IIRC they got acquired and removed the free tier but you might still find them useful.

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                        But one could set up an Archer style voicemail prank!

                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5kIVXNCzDA

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                        • gold_e_lox@lemmy.dbzer0.comG [email protected]

                          lol, only production matters child, once you are ready to become a Worker™, then you you will be required to use voicemail

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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.

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                            Voicemail is actually really nice, if people call you and don't leave a message, the call was not important or a spam call. Its like the perfect filter.

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                            Yeah but I get like 5 spam calls a week from "Nicole with loan processing" or "Joshua Martinez from the loan issuance department" and they always leave a voicemail that I have to delete because I tried to get a personal loan 4 months ago.

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                              I definitely know about the spoofing - that's what made me figure it was spam initially.

                              The waiting for a voice response makes sense, but I've never encountered a system that didn't at least say some form of "hello." Not this persistent of one, anyway.

                              Thanks!

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                              Interesting, one of the recent voicemails I received was a very high-quality voice courtesy one of everyone’s favorite text-to-speech companies (perhaps ElevenLabs)

                              Wonder if it’s possible they were trying to route on the fly, if they had such a low latency system that they’re able to wait for potential victims to say hello before instantly transferring to a human scammer.

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                                here in chile we dont longer use voicemail, cant remember when was the last time i heard one...
                                That said, a lot of people send whatsapp audios, i understand its easier for some folks, but, common!

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                                In Colombia I get a shocking number of voice messages via WhatsApp. I got a 4-minute message from my landlord last week that had 20 seconds of actual information.

                                The transcribe option in the app is reasonably good, but it's not 100% accurate.

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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.

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                                  Most smartphones offer voicemail transcription now, I believe. Or at least Apple does. I don't have voicemail set up on my Android phone to check.

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                                    I don’t like voicemail typically, but I have some voicemails from family members who have passed away and I cherish listening to them.

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                                    If I were you, I would save a copy of them somewhere safe. I wouldn't trust a phone company or my phone to hold on to voicemails forever.

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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.

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                                      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.

                                      Same I end every meeting where someone asks me to do something with a request for them to email me spelling it out. I don't care if we covered all the ins and outs verbally and I already made notes, I want a paper trail of their expectations. The intention really being to train them that meeting first is a waste of time and they should just email me in the first place. If I don't understand what you want I'll set up a call.

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                                        Back in the day, I realized there wasn't really a voice-mail message length limit, so I had a 20 minute rant about why I don't want voicemails

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                                          It's a double edged sword:

                                          1.) Not all phone lines have text enabled (especially service lines).

                                          2.) One reason you might not answer a call is because you don't recognize it. So if the line in question doesn't have text options then you might miss important calls if you don't check your voicemail.

                                          3.) If you don't take unknown calls and you don't check voicemails then you probably won't answer random text messages either.

                                          At the end of the day more people need to be grown ups and at least have a decent voicemail message and check their voicemails as they come in. It's not an all or nothing discussion, it's a do the minimum discussion. Screen your calls, check your voicemails, call people back who seem legit. It's not rocket science, it's adulthood.

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