"Call me back"
Dawg tell me what you need from me first, how hard is it
Then I get an email just to say they left a voicemail
I'm 100% certain whatever question they have for me could be handled via email, what is this, I don't want to get out of bed I was finally sleeping
I don't listen to voice mails and I tell my friends that. Just text me.
I don't know why I'm like that, but it makes me super anxious listening to voice mails and being on the phone in general
Ditto, it's so much easier to deal with text. I have hearing difficulty sometimes and it's just so much easier and less awkward to read and write than speak on the phone
Ugh it’s the worst! It’s either their being not very considerate or some weird sadistic power play (I may be paranoid but I know people who leave others in the dark to feel powerful and “be in charge of the communication”).
I wish I could tell people that they have to email me before they call me and that they have to call me before they email me.
I don't think they're trying to be sadistic or anything, I'm just a weirdo who gets extremely anxious about phone calls so it'd be nice to know what specific questions they have before I call back. I get wanting to be brief for recording duration but if they're gonna take the time to send an email... they could have elaborated....
who gets extremely anxious about phone calls so it’d be nice to know what specific questions they have before I call back.
That's me exactly. 100% sympathy with you :meow-hug:
On one hand, there's no idea how long of a message the voice mail can take or the recording/playback quality.
On the other hand, giving me no information but using an excited/panicked tone of voice makes me think its a fucking emergency only to be told that they just wanted to know if I could do some errand at my convenience at a later day.
I just get extremely anxious about phone calls and human interaction in general and it's so much easier for me to deal with someone face to face or via text, phone calls have just always made me uncomfortable, at least knowing what they want would make it easier. At this point I've put off calling them back all day and my phone is almost dying.
I just got another call from someone else too and they're both important (I know the subject of the former call, just not what specific questions they had) but i'm going to uh lie down for an hour while my phone charges...
my phone anxiety is practically crippling. especially cold calls. it's even creeped into texting now.
I spend very little time around other human beings beyond my wife and any verbal communication with a person, as a person, is a bit dicey these days.
i just tell people to email or text me. If they call me i tell them to hang up and email or text me. i cant fuckin deal with phone calls.
i have my work shit set up so if someone is enough of a pervert to leave me a voice mail, it emails me a wav file of it. that way i can quickly seek it for the relevant details, and if they're an idiot, it's easy to import it into a video, put some demeaning graphic up, screw with the pitch, and blast it online.
the lesson here is, don't ever leave shitty voice mails. because of me.
People usually send me sex messages I don't answer the phone unless I'm get paid :brow: listen you don't gotta call the voice police iv been like this for years, its a job I swear! My name is roco and i have a modern life.
I'm endlessly thankfull my phone auto transcribes voicemail. Usually well enough to understand.
