Telephone

[mruffruff]

Talking fast is less of a problem for me than the automated answering machines that have 8 or 9 choices---none of which are what I want.

[Edwina's Secretary]

I do much of my work over the phone and get so frustrated by both...."thank you for calling asldjfldjlkjldsjldj." I know it become very rote to answer a phone but what good does it do if the caller cannot understand?

And "call me" with no phone number or so fast I need to replay over and over getting one number at a time.

When I leave a message I say my name at the beginning and my number (with area code) twice and my name again at the end.

I also find amazing how many people rely on auto callback. I use one phone for outgoing calls and another for incoming. When an applicant replies on my outgoing line I know they didn't listen carefully to the message.

[Randi]

Talking fast is less of a problem for me than the automated answering machines that have 8 or 9 choices---none of which are what I want.

I hate that too!! At least, sometimes you're lucky enough to be able to get back to the switchboard girl.

Some english speaking sales person rang a few weeks ago and talked really fast - I said "#&ck off" and hung up.