It's My World, Ur Just a Squirrel » caller ID http://thesabs.com Because I'm a media whore with a dirty mind and a penchant for laughter... Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:27:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Voicemail Jail & Why Phone Companies Think We’re Stupes http://thesabs.com/voicemail-jail/ http://thesabs.com/voicemail-jail/#comments Sat, 23 May 2009 13:40:23 +0000 The $@bs http://thesabs.com/?p=2018 voicemail“You know what really grinds my gears?” The fact that when you get someone’s voicemail, you also get at least 5 minutes of irritating instructions you have to suffer through. Seriously, we’re almost a decade into the new millennium. Who doesn’t know how voicemail works?

If you try to press a button to get things moving, every carrier has a different system and what ends up happening is that the caller is led in a circle of menu options, ultimately prevented from leaving a message. This is commonly referred to as voicemail jail, and boy does it piss me off.

I barely even listen to my voicemail anymore anyway. Since the invention of caller ID, I can obviously see who called and I just call them back. Who needs to listen to 15 minutes of people saying ‘hey’, followed by their name and a request for a return call? If it’s a longer message than that, it’s just annoying to sit through. I think I’m going to change my outgoing message to: “Hey, this is Sabs. Don’t leave a message after the tone! Thanks and have a great day.”

$@bs

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