That’s my suggestion. I’m guessing the reason his mailbox is full is because he’s doing the same thing to other people on the day’s he’s not doing it do you*
Other then that, my suggestion would be to just go to that office and ask around to find out who’s number it is. Since it’s one of your clients, hopefully you can just go in and say “Hey, I got a call from this number, but I’m not sure who it was, can you tell me who’s cell this is?” and see if you get anywhere with that. Assuming you do, I wouldn’t bring up anything embarrassing face to face, just a simple “Hey, you’ve been butt dialing me. A lot.” Just let him know that in the past few weeks you’ve had about 10 or 15 calls and it’s just been radio on in the background…I’d just leave it at that since I’d be embarrassed if someone told me that I left them 100’s of voicemails. 100’s of voicemails or 10-15 calls (that you just hung up on) wouldn’t make a difference, I’d find a way to take care of it. Either start locking my phone better or take your number out of my contacts list if I didn’t have any pressing need to call you when I’m away from my desk/computer.
Now that I think about it, maybe you could just call that office and explain the scenario to them. Just tell them it’s a cell phone and your phone just has the office name but not who the phone belongs to but when call it back they won’t pick up and perhaps someone could track this person down and deliver a message for you.
*This is, of course, based on the assumption that he doesn’t have some odd fetish where he gets off on knowing that you (specifically you) are listening to voicemails of him chewing with right wing radio in the background.
Not that this helps solve the problem, but FWIW, I was butt-dialed pretty regularly. The guy had a blackberry, and my real name starts with a “P”, when he sat so that he leaned on that part of the blackberry keyboard, it automatically dialed his first contact with a “P”.
The more I think about it, the more I think this could be a solution. So have you thought about it, and could you text him, and if so did you and if not, why not?
I tried sending a text a couple of times and had no reaction. I cannot confirm they arrived or not. It just seemed to go into the bit bucket.
There is a class of plant worker at power plants who is given a work mobile phone and told “here. Use this to call us when shit is blowing up or on fire” and which they never seem to use it for anything but making calls to operations. It is possible this guy is one of those and never even checks it for anything.
Is the term “buttdial” literally accurate or just a useful term? Are there really people who carry their phone in their back pocket? It sounds to me as if the phone would not last long.
I have. It’s not a good idea when you’re heading to the bathroom and don’t remember it’s there - out of everywhere it *could *fall when you’re shifting your trousers, 99 out of 100 times you’ll hear the splash as it heads down towards the U-bend…
Yes, I have literally butt dialed someone (luckily my daughter who thought it was funny and ragged me about it for weeks) and I have also dropped my phone in the toilet because it was in my back pocket and I forgot before I went to the bathroom.