I swear if i get one more voicemail that says “Hey Chris its me give me a call back” not only will i call you back but it will be after i shove your phone up your ass! I have a missed call from you dumbass that missed call tells me to call you back! I dont need you to remind me.
Hey, Chris, It’s me. Post me back, K?
Too much caffeine?
So we should just dial your number and let it ring a few times and just hang up?
Cool, you sound like an asshole anyway. I’m surprised anybody ever calls you. :dubious:
Just hang up when it goes to voicemail. I know I have a missed call and to fill my voicemail up with something irreleveant is just a waste of time.
Fair enough. It’s just that unless it’s a work thing, irrelevant crap on voicemail doesn’t seem like that big of a thing.
To each his own and sorry I called you an asshole.
Why the fuck should I call back someone who didn’t bother to leave me a message to say what they wanted. Yeah, my cell phone shows a missed call, but I don’t know whether the caller wanted to actually talk to me, or just misdialed my number. Besides, when I’m in the subway or an elevator, sometimes my phone doesn’t register missed calls.
I agree. If you just want me to call you back, don’t bother leaving a voicemail. It’s just a waste of both our time - I’ll see that you called and I will call you back. Please don’t make me listen to another pointless voicemail!
No, you should call and see if he answers the phone or not. If he doesn’t, and the entire content of the hypothetical voicemail you might leave is “hey, I called you”, then you can hang up, because he already has that information.
I, too, wonder why people feel compelled to leave voicemail in that situation. It’s always the same few people who do this, too. Nine workdays out of ten, I leave the office, check my phone, and see that Dave has called me. Dave has called me because he wants to have dinner. He wants to have dinner every night, and, every night, he leaves me a voicemail indicating that he would like to have dinner. Seeing this, I call Dave back and let him know whether I would like to have dinner with him. I don’t check the voicemail, because I know what’s in the voicemail, because it’s the same thing that’s in the voicemail every time he calls me…and if it isn’t*, he’ll tell me that when I call him. It’s similar with most of the people who call me; I either already know why they called me, or else I’ll find out when I call them back.
This means that, when I get a voicemail I think might contain useful information, I have to wade through fifteen "want to have dinner?"s from Dave, eight "I’m pissed at your grandmother"s from Mom, four "the internet is broke come fix it"s from my dad’s girlfriend, and all the other crap people clog my inbox with. Yeah, I could delete each one individually as I get them, but that’d be an even bigger waste of my time then deleting them en masse.
So, yeah, I can sympathize with the OP’s rant. Messages should have a point, or else they shouldn’t be left. You wouldn’t email me just to tell me to send you an email, so why the hell would you call me just to do the same thing?
*It is.
I won’t call someone back unless they leave a voicemail asking me to. If they don’t, I figure what they wanted wasn’t that important. Or maybe it was time sensitive and my return call will be too late. Or maybe the found what they wanted from someone else.
Precisely. If you don’t leave a message it apparently wasn’t that big of a deal.
It could be a holdover from the days before caller I.D. Back then you didn’t know who called you unless you listened to the message, so leaving a message actually served a purpose. Either way, it sounds like a pointless thing to get irked about.
Ditto here. If you don’t leave a message, I generally will not call you back, unless I happen to see 3 or 4 missed calls all from the same number on my phone. Frankly, I thought this was standard and common courtesy. Nothing irks me more than somebody who says “Why didn’t you call me back” when they didn’t leave a message. It’s because you didn’t leave a message, you idiot.
So, I’m the opposite of the OP. If you want me to call you back, leave a goddamn message!
How I’m crazy #8686986:
I haven’t listened to my voicemail in two years.
I’ll return missed calls, sure. But no, never voicemail.
Carry on.
Well, when I get a message that says only, “Call me back,” I’m always suspicious. We had friends who always did that when they wanted a favor (usually babysitting). We came to believe it was a deliberate tactic – if they left a message saying “can you babysit Saturday?” we’d be able to come up with an excuse. Instead, they’d get us ion the phone and ask, “What are you doing Saturday?” without revealing their intent. They were smooth talkers and I’m sure they preferred to have us live on the phone where they could manipulate rather than leaving a message where they were exposed and couldn’t work their wiles.
We no longer see them, but I’ve noticed a similar pattern from other callers sometimes, and now I’m generally suspicious of people who won’t state their purpose in a voice mail.
Sailboat
Hell yes! Fuckers always leave vague voicemails when they want something. My boss does this. Sometimes she’ll say" I just want to know about patient x and their meds". Okay, easy enough and I know her intent.
Then sometimes she’ll say" Call me back when you get this". It’s THEN that I know she wants me to do something I don’t want to do. I hate that shit.
But checking your voicemail takes up minutes from your plan; that’s the motivation for a lot of people I know not to leave a message. I can’t stand Verizon because it can take up to 3 minutes just to slog through the voicemail prompts to listen to one damn message (I’ll get “saved messages…” and she reads them. Don’t mind the fact I know I’ve deleted those motherfuckers, but also, I came TO HEAR THE NEW MESSAGE, YOU BITCH. PLAY THAT FIRST). Doing all that and then just hearing, “hey it’s me, call me back” is really annoying.
'Course, nowadays you can just do a short txt and put ‘call me’ at the end, too.
I’m with the OP on this. I did a rant on my blog about this just yesterday.
Just copied…now pasting: I don’t like vague or mundane messages on my voicemail. “Gimme a call.” is wasting my time. I can see by the “missed call” message on my phone that I missed your call and I can figure out that you probably want to speak to me since you did call. If I go into the voicemail system and wait for the slow-ass system to finally give me my message and I press one to play message and I hear,” gimme a call” I am pissed. Give me a reason if you’re going to leave a message : “got two tickets…” “I’m coming over”, something. Shit.
What the hell kind of voice mail do you have that takes three minutes to get to your message?! When I was with T-Mobile, it was just “You have x new messages. New message:” and the thing would start playing. Now with AT&T, it’s even easier with visual voicemail. If somebody doesn’t leave me a message, I just assume whatever it was they were calling about was not important. And same in reverse: if I call and don’t leave a message, don’t bother calling me back–it’s nothing important.
When you call me, you need to leave a message if you want a call back. I turn my phone off quite a bit so I won’t know I missed a call. I don’t bother returning ‘missed calls’ unless there is a message. No message, I assume you didn’t need to speak with me.
I find it really odd that people equate a missed call with a message.