Telephone pet peeves

[Jethro Bodine]

Like most, I have a number of pet peeves but I must say the ones I run into daily involve the telephone.
In my line of work I spend a fair bit of time on the phone with clients, suppliers, subcontractors, etc., so these can really add up.

Here's my top 3.

1) Answerring machines that don't identify the user or atleast say the number you've called. I can understand some people not necessarily wanting to state their name on their voice recording but atleast say "You've reached ???-????" so I know I've called the correct person back.

2) People who leave me a message and when I call them back 30 seconds later, they're not there. Where the hell did you go in the past 30 seconds? And it's often not as if they are on another call because their phone doesn't go directly to voicemail but rings several times.

3) People who don't LISTEN to the message but only see you've called and call back. There are times I'll call someone right before I am going into a meeting, etc. I always say, "I'm not going to be available for the next 2 hours so don't bother calling me back, I'll try you later" and guess what? They call me back 5 minutes later. What part of I'll call you back in a couple of hours didn't they understand.

There, I feel better now.

Thanks for listening.

 

[Sir Jim]

My peeve is the ones that call you back when you haven't left a message. They look at who has called and then dial you back. Of course sometimes it's the next day and you can't remember who you called.
If I want you to call back, I'll say so in my message.

The other thing is people that quickly rattle off their tel number in a stacatto tone and you're 'sposed to be able to remember or even write it down.

 

[HB40]

In my line of work I spend a fair bit of time on the phone with clients, suppliers, subcontractors, etc., so these can really add up.

The majority of my calls are to secure equipment and services for ongoing operations in remote locations. The dispatchers almost always start out asking for details like directions and specifics that take some time and effort from me to explain. What my pet peeve is, that after providing all this information the companies cannot supply the equipment I need to meet my schedule. So now, I'm pretty sure I have become a pet peeve for most dispatchers, when my first question is "do you have..." and they go off on their fact finding missions I stop them and say no, lets start again, "first, do you have?!?"

Thanks for listening.

Actually, I was reading and not listening, sorry thats just a pet peeve of mine.

 

[namssa]

2) People who leave me a message and when I call them back 30 seconds later, they're not there. Where the hell did you go in the past 30 seconds?

3) There are times I'll call someone right before I am going into a meeting, etc. I always say, "I'm not going to be available for the next 2 hours so don't bother calling me back, I'll try you later" and guess what? They call me back 5 minutes later. What part of I'll call you back in a couple of hours didn't they understand.

I think you kind of answered your question #2 with your response in #3.
Everybody is busy these days.....as soon as I leave a message and hang up, I am either on another call, talking to someone that was waiting for me to get off of the phone or I am gone away from my desk dealing with some other matter. You can call me back 10 seconds after I hang up from leaving a message and there is a greater than 50% chance that I will not be in a position to pick up the call.

 

[sweetcherry]

You know what annoys me about answering the phone at times? When I get a caller working out booking details, I hear strange noises in the background. Accompanied by heavy breathing.

"Sir...are you masturbating?"
(Man on the phone): fap fap fap fap fap. *heavy breathing* "so *pant*....what kind of *pant*....panties....*pant*...are you wearing....?"
".....( = ____ = )......."

 

[Jethro Bodine]

You can call me back 10 seconds after I hang up from leaving a message and there is a greater than 50% chance that I will not be in a position to pick up the call.

So you're the guy!

 

[Jethro Bodine]

You know what annoys me about answering the phone at times? When I get a caller working out booking details, I hear strange noises in the background. Accompanied by heavy breathing.

"Sir...are you masturbating?"
(Man on the phone): fap fap fap fap fap. *heavy breathing* "so *pant*....what kind of *pant*....panties....*pant*...are you wearing....?"
".....( = ____ = )......."

I hate those too.

 

[jack13]

Phone Peeves

What kills me is when someone calls my direct office line and gets a busy signal and then immediately calls my cell