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.