“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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Laura on 05.23.2009
Ha, totally agree on that one
BRIAN on 05.26.2009
Why do most voicemails give you the option to page the person? Isn’t paging the same as having caller ID? You’re right voicemail is ridiculously retarded now a days.