The future is now old man!
The only time I've answered an unknown number in the last decade plus is when I was applying for jobs. Everything else goes to voicemail.
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2024
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Voicemail is dead too. It just gets filled with a hundred 1 seconds hangups from spam calls being sent straight to it. Every legit person and business will either show up on your ID, sent an appointment text, or an email.
Í found an option at the phone provider to just ignore all unknown numbers. My phone doesn't even ring.
If I don't recognize the number (meaning it's not already in my contacts), then you can leave a message. 98% of the time it's a scam anyways, and the other 2% of the time it's a doctor's office confirming your appointment.
Call me cynical but if someone doesn't send a message after trying to call it's either because it's not important or because they want you on the line so they can do 'objection handling' to you.
This applies to people you actually know as well as sales people.
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At work we are required to call customers with a non trackable phone number. So everytime we call someone, it only shows "unnknown number". I don't get it how most people would answer that. I would never do that.
The hospital recently started calling with hidden numbers. So now im back to picking up those calls again because those are calls I can't really miss.
Why would the hospital do that? Don't they realize nobody answers calls that can't be identified?
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I don't, 'google screen' answers it and transcribes the call. Funnily enough I've not had a single call transcribed. So that's a search and block/report.
Community Blood Center. The very polite vampires are the only ones who put up with Google screen for me. They really like my blood.
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Googling just gives pages and pages of SEO crap and scams. Any actual decent site to look up a number on?
It used to give good info, maybe 10 years ago. And remember when everyone's number was in the phone book? Why isn't there an online version of that anymore? Not this "buy now" scam stuff.
There really ought to be a crowdsourced database. It could even use AP.
Yeah Google actually. If it's a legit number a business name will pop up the seo pages are all scam numbers
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Sorry OP, but we're urgently trying to contact you about your cars extended warranty! We save car owners major money from the shock of expensive repairs with affordable extended coverage! For as low as a cup of coffee a day you can have the peace of mind when it comes to car repairs.
I can't stop thinking about that keyboard. What is it?
Kinesis advantge.
As others have replied it's a kinesis. If you want to build one look into dactyl shells, amoeba single switch PCBs, and a therapist for your sadism
Just realized he is using that lol. It is a fantastic keyboard. A good way to get sucked in to the custom keyboard hobby 😭
My job requires phone calls (which people asked for!) it is frustrating how many unanswered voicemails I leave every day.
And it'll be a cold day in hell when I give out my cellphone number to a customer.
never give your personal cell number to any customer, ever. especially if you're IT.
What I'd really like is a complicated menu system where their call can get put through but only after they've proven a high degree of commitment and dedication to it. Like what captchas do.
yeah kinda like every doctor office or credit card company we ever call. Imagine if everyone who called us had to go through all these hoops.
Hello thank you for calling [insert your name here]. Please listen closely as our menu options have changed. For questions, press 1. For a one-sided conversation, press 2. To leave a sarcastic jab, press 3. To leave a message with our secretary, press 4. To speak directly with [name], please catch me in person most likely wherever you met me or saw me last. Thank you. Goodbye.
'Are you aware that our website now has an AI assistant who can handle all of your requests? Just visit www.leavemealone.co.uk for information, rewards and to manage your account. Have a nice day!...'
"Thank you for calling [Person Name]. We are experiencing a high volume of calls at the moment, and all of our customer service representatives are currently assisting other customers. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience."
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Imagine having your desk at work setup like this. Who the hell puts the monitor off to the side like that? My neck would kill me after 5 mins
I could see it happening if your job primarily involves talking to people sat on the other side of the desk.
It's for people who always work in front of a film crew so the camera can see their faces
Me wearing a suit to use Google.
Me answering a call because it's way faster and convenient than only texting like a nervous, terminally online teenager who is trying to stigmatize using a phone to make phone calls: 🥱
This post is about spam calls, which you'll only get more of if you answer them.
"we text now, stop calling me". Very clear OPs opinion on calling in general.
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I'm guessing the mass here is from USA. People from EU, where regulations work better, what's your opinion on this?
German here, I also google unknown phone numbers first if they are mobile phone numbers. My business phone number is in the imprint of every website I make due to legal reasons, so I receive around 1-2 spam calls per week.
I'm from France, there's actually a law to force telemarketers to use certain phone ranges, which I've blocked.
During some periods, I have a call blocked per day, sometimes more, then nothing for a while.
I sometimes have the odd phone call that passes through, but unless I know I'm expecting a call, or it is from a number I know, I never pick up. It's usually spam anyway
Poland here. I really get spam calls, once a week or less. My phone flags unwanted calls as spam so I don't pick up. If I miss a call from an unknown number, then I Google it. I almost never get to talk to a spam call.
Scamers put effort into learning Polish and you didn't even hear them out? Harsh.
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Next time you get a unknown caller, they won't be so unknown anymore https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/
I searched the # of a place I work for and it said it was from some random lady in Florida. I do not live anywhere near Florida
Well we've been trying to find a good time to tell you this, might as well be now. You actually work for some random lady in Florida. Sorry about all the misdirection, she's a very secretive lady
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