Posted 2 years ago
Rage against the answering machine
I know it’s semantic nit-picking, but I really can’t stand it when someone’s voicemail or answering machine says: “You’ve reached [name].” It’s painfully obvious that I haven’t reached [name] at all. I have reached their voicemail, and unless [name] was a robot all along, [name]’s voicemail is not part of [name].
All I want to know is that I’ve got the correct voicemail. I don’t need to hear you try and be witty — in all likelihood you’re probably not and if you are, then it will probably get old after the first time I talk to your voicemail.
On calling me you might realise that my voicemail that I do give the instruction to leave a message; that is because just telling you this is my voicemail seemed a little terse, so a little fluff by way of an instruction which is superfluous to anyone who has used a phone in the last 10 years seemed forgivable.
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