Phone manners

[DAFox]

I am over 50 years old. My Mom was a Bell Telephone operator. If I learned nothing else at her knee, I learned telephone manners. "Who is this?", either from the caller or the person called, is the ultimate rudeness to me. I can't say that I always identify myself when I am making a personal call or appointment, but, this is the usual way: "Hi ____(if I know them), this is Dale-Ann, is So and So available?" If I need to take a message: "May I tell ____ who called? Or if I am screening the calls "May I ask who is calling?" If I am making a business call, I do always identify myself and company. "Hello. This is Dale-Ann from such and such. Is so and so available?"
Dale-Ann

 

[Spookwriter]

Seems like I live on the telephone. Way too many calls.

Turned the ringers off on my landline phone a long time ago.
I do check the caller ID...if it looks like I need to, I'll call you back.

My cell phones...both of them....ring all day long. If you fail to identify
yourself, I have to move along.

My fax? The ringer is on during working hours. After hours, I flip the switch.
Still receives, just doesn't ring.

 

[gritsar]

I was raised with manners and those manners extend to the telephone.
We have caller ID and an answering machine. Our home phone rings maybe once a week.

My cell phone is rarely used for anything but sending and receiving text messages to my DSD. My DH keeps his cell phone with him at all times, even has it on his nightstand while sleeping. This is a requirement for his job as shift supervisor at the police dept. Recently I convinced him to not keep it on at night. He's out of work on workmans comp., so no clueless rookie should be calling him @ 3 AM. Nothing worse than being woken up by the phone IMO.

I just plain hate the phone.

 

[3goodeggs]

The guy that needed to talk to my husband like it was the most urgent thing in the world- but not important enough to leave his name or number...and insulting me along the way was... asking for VOTES! The guy was a politician! As my husband says, "Even if you get mine, you lost hers so you are at zero for all of your efforts.'

Stupid guy. If he wins I guess he'll be comfortable with his peers.
That was a mean thing to say. I am sorry. I guess I am still stinging from the 'wifey' thing. 'Go take your nap.' HUMPH!

 

[cluckcluck42]

Quote:
OMG no he isn't! Don't you have to be a people person to be a politician??

 

[chicks4kids]

I can't stand it when I answer the phone "Hello" and the person on the other end says "Who's this?" Excuse me? I think to myself....then I hang up the phone. Yeah, it's rude for me to hang up the phone but I will NOT respond to someone (usually a pre-teen) calling my home and saying "Who's this?" Instead of politely asking for whoever it is that they want to speak to. I teach my kids to say "Hello, this is so & so, is so & so there?" Not "who's this?"

I agree with you completely....... phone manners are terrible.......and you know darn well the people on the other end of those manners wouldn't dare speak to you that way face to face.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

My office phone number is very similar to the bursar's office on campus. People call me ALL THE TIME wanting to pay me money or asking why they can't register for classes or questioning why their financial aid hasn't come through. Most of them are confused from the get go when I answer my line "Hello? This is CityGirl." Usually there is a long pause while they do some mental calisthenics. Those I can deal with because they are listening. It's the kids who immediately launch into a tirade about their financial situation or instantly try to give me a credit card number that make me crazy. I can't get a word in edgewise! Then there are the ones that leave long, drawn out explanations on my voice mail, despite my message saying "This is NOT the bursar's office. This is the theatre department. If you wish to speak to the bursar's office please dial 555-8888." Pay attention people! ARG!


(And no, my real name is not CityGirl. I use my real name in real life.

)

 

[Imp]

If someone calls me and does not id themselves in the first sentence. I interrupt and ask "Who is this please?" Then it is up to them to LOUDLY id themselves before the receiver hits the phone.

I don't mind sales calls or the other junk calls, just tell me who you are.

You could always just say "I don't take calls from strangers" and hang up. Family and friends will get the message quick.

Imp- give me a call try me out 867-5309.

BTW- I'm not fond of the phone either. Rarely make calls.

I'm the manager for a call center at work.

 

[Dar]

I love caller ID... If I dont know the number I just wont anwer.. and I dont have voice mail so I guess they are out of luck... my fax will pick it up..

My cell (my blackberry) has an app that will dump all calls coming in from unknown name unknown number or private name, 888,800,866 and many other toll free area codes... I

my BB

 

[Camelot Farms]

My peeve? Calling my sister and having to listen to 59 seconds of Miranda Lambert's 'Gunpowder and Lead' every single cotton pickin time I call.
I am happy that people like their tunes. Just dont assume that I like your tunes! =/

My 2nd peeve? L O N G machine greetings with a little hello from all of the young'uns in the house...Hewo, dis is, ummm, ummm, dis is JOHNNY! N dis is, giggle-giggle, uh,uh Jane! N, N, N, i'm, my name is
*I don wanna do it' *Bam! phone hits ground*. Finally adult voice says 'leave a message'. AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!