s anymore?

"i can't come to the phone, so leave a message with your name and phone number"



Really?! Don't we all know how voicemail works by now?

10/17/2013 1:09:39 PM

Based on some of the assholes on here who are like "I never answer my phone, if its important you can text me" I think we still need voicemail instructions

10/17/2013 1:10:22 PM

I lay out an ultimatum in my recording. Essentially I say "if you leave me a detailed message, I'll give you a call as soon as I can." Otherwise they'll just say "Hey ncstatetke give me a call when you have a chance -- had a question for ya"

if I have a general idea of what they needed to talk about, then I can do some research on the topic and get my talking points lined up before I call them back

10/17/2013 1:40:11 PM

i hate when people don't have a greeting and it's just a robot greeting, and you're not sure if you called the right number

10/17/2013 1:48:22 PM

I always request that they leave a number just in case they are calling from an office or something and I can't see their direct line on my caller ID. A little reminder never hurts.

10/17/2013 1:49:11 PM

holy shit yes. I called one of our clients the other day and got a voicemail message that was easily 2 fucking minutes long. If my job didn't depend on it, I would have hung up after about 30s. I don't know how his clients can ever call him and maybe that's the plan.

10/17/2013 2:00:28 PM

Habit and lack of a substantially better alternative.

10/17/2013 2:07:36 PM

Whenever I'm leaving someone a voicemail, and the person calls me back while I'm leaving the voicemail, I'm always like "well ok that's you calling so I'm going to answer it" or something

10/17/2013 2:07:56 PM

I hate it when somebody calls me right back after I leave them a well-thought-out message and they say they didn't listen to the message

10/17/2013 2:23:32 PM

Quote :

"i hate when people don't have a greeting and it's just a robot greeting, and you're not sure if you called the right number"

I leave mine on the robot greeting, but we still have to record our name, so its along the lines of

Recording: [my name]
Robot: Is not available. Please leave a message after the tone. After you are finished recording, you may hang up, or press # for more options.

corny, but better than having to record some stupid "I'm not here, please just send me an email because I never check this stupid thing" message

10/18/2013 7:05:55 AM

There's someone on here who does professional voice overs for your voicemail. That would be cool to have.

10/18/2013 7:36:28 AM

^hypaone

10/18/2013 7:48:26 AM