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Phone calls are rude. They demand your immediate attention with a loud alarm and no regard for where you might be or what you are doing. Texts/email are respectful. They make a small chime just to let you know they are around, then wait patiently for you to read and respond.
That's the point. You get an answer immediately. Also it's way faster than texting since it's synchronous
Which is great when people use a phone call in situations where an immediate response is warranted -- not so great when I realize I've had the device occupying one of my hands and my attention for 10 minutes, and the speaker has yet to make a point
There are certain people who when I see calling, I just won't pick up. On the other hand, when the phone rang at 4am and it was my brother, I knew something terrible had happened. If he had been a frequent caller/offender, I'd have silenced and ignored the call, but I'm really thankful that I picked up. It's like a "boy who cried wolf" situation.
Wish I could get my elderly relatives to understand this.
How about you explain why do I need to be contacted by a phone call
Explain why you cannot be contacted by telephone call
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don't tell me how to live my life.
You wouldn't sell Beethoven a new piano either?
I’m not saying I wouldn't. I’d just give him a “⚠️” look.
Introverts unite ٩( ᐛ )و
^oh, wait...^
Introverts unite... online. Separately.
I'm a fairly strong extrovert and telephony services are almost entirely unused and blocked.
Maybe if I were somewhat intoxicated and hadn't socialised in the past 3 hours, I'd consider answering...
"Hey, I don't give a shit about whatever you called about. But if your shift is close to end, happy to chat about stuff so you don't have to call anyone else. What are you into? Where you at? How's work going? Do you like gaming?.... Hello?... Awww."
Meanwhile I'm an introvert and I would rather a 10 minute phone call than an email chain back and forward.
If it's going to be more than 2 emails, call me.
Writing an email is just as socially draining for me - sometimes even more so if I don't know you well and I'm over thinking the tone or how much context to include. Having to send more than 2 emails is just elongating the interaction, especially if the other person is in and out of the office so they don't reply quickly and I keep having to come back to the same conversation and shift my headspace in and out of "socially mode"
Of course, being in and out of the office is a big reason why email is great, you get to it when you get to it and no one is entitled to your immediate attention.
I would put "You can try. Many have."
"Because I won't recognize the number and therefore never answer a call."
"I'll just assume it's spam"
Hello, we have been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty
Explain why you cannot be contacted by telephone call
No.
My dentist has started texting about appointment reminders and reschedules. It's an automated system but also a person can manually jump into the conversation. I love it because it means I don't have to talk to them on the phone.
I give the phone call or text option at my work, and I don't believe I have a single client who prefers a phone call, which is great because, yeah same
Basically our entire healthcare system has had that for years. We can't reschedule with SMS though. Sometimes clinics support rescheduling via the national E healthcare service, though.
"All calls go directly to voicemail" would be my response.
I want everything in writing so I can refer back to exactly what was said and when.
It's against all I stand for...
I recognize this... it was part of the "Public Health Passenger Locator Form" which was required to enter the UK during covid times.
Nicely spotted. I thought it had a certain G-O-V-dot-U-K-ness about it.
Personally, this kind of thing is part of how I control the phone rather than have the phone control me, all of which reduces stress and even increases productivity at a professional level.
An SMS or similar kind of message always gets stored, and I can check it when its convenient for me.
Phone calls only get stored if the other side actually records a voice mail, so there is pressure to pick up a phone call immediatelly, "just in case they don't leave a voicemail" which might very well be interrupting work on a complex task that shouldn't be interrupted.
My philosophy is that if it's important, they'll leave a voicemail. If they don't leave a voicemail, then sorry, I'm not calling back.
My philosophy is: I don't leave voicemails and I also don't listen to voicemails.
I text first and call later in most cases. If it's important call me twice
Yeah, I also use that to further segregate things by level of importance: there's lots of unimportant stuff coming in via that channel, so if a person on the other side can't be arsed to leave a voicemail, it's not important enough.
The SMS option just allows further segregation of important-non-urgent from important-urgent: for me an SMS might have something I should know or is good to know (say, confirmation of a doctor's appointment) but have plenty of time to deal with (say, it's in 2 weeks) so it works well for automated messages (plus it's faster to read and SMS message tend to be a lot shorter and to the point than voicemail)
In the old days of WFH I would further segregate it by "if it's really really urgent come to my desk" which further filters for importance based on the effort others are willing to put on it by coming to me with it.
In my professionally life I've concluded that a lot of unecessary stress comes from unimportant, important-urgent and important-non-urgent all coming in via the same channels and me having to treat everything as "possibly important and urgent" when most of it is no such thing, hence my filtering by-effort-required, which is not perfect but works way better than most people's approach to it.
Whenever some service asks for a phone number of which I know they do not need it, I just enter 0123456789.
They can contact me on my email address (on my spam, not my official mailbox)
This is why they invented email.
Nah you explain to me why you can't just text.