Thread: BAN Voicemail!!!!! - NOW

Are you as sick and tired (and disgusted) with recording answering your telephone calls ? In the good old days (before answering machines)., when you called someone (personal or business), someone picked up the phone and said "Hello". If they were on another call, you got a busy signal. So what ? You hang up and call again in a little while.

Nothing is worse however, than having some long-winded voice blabbering a bunch of stuff to you that you're not interested in, and covering every conceivable thought related to his business in the process. Multiple menus (you know > press 1, press 2, etc) are the nightmare result of this moronic technology gone wild.

And why do businesses plague us with these torture devices ? Simply because they find it as a way to save money by hiring less people. So they make things as convenient for themselves as they can, while sticking the INconvenience X 10 upon us. Well, no good!>> businesses. You hire the adequate number of people that is needed to do the job (ie. to have a LIVE PERSON answer the phone, AT ALL TIMES that you're open for business) or you shouldn't expect to get any business, period. But quit laying the inconvenience (and your rudeness) on the people who are putting the food on your table, OK ?

And if you don't (as is highly likely), then WE have to step up to the plate and (EN MASSE) contact "our" elected representitives to FORCE you to do it (ie. to BAN those (*)(*)(*)(*) voicemails).

It really is a pain in the rear, isn't it.

When I call my docs.. I get a 20 minute exercise.. likewise the bank..

Just put a message on your cell saying.. don't leave me a message.. thank you..

It won't be perfect.. but it will help.

Originally Posted by protectionist

Are you as sick and tired (and disgusted) with recording answering your telephone calls ? In the good old days (before answering machines)., when you called someone (personal or business), someone picked up the phone and said "Hello". If they were on another call, you got a busy signal. So what ? You hang up and call again in a little while.

Nothing is worse however, than having some long-winded voice blabbering a bunch of stuff to you that you're not interested in, and covering every conceivable thought related to his business in the process. Multiple menus (you know > press 1, press 2, etc) are the nightmare result of this moronic technology gone wild.

And why do businesses plague us with these torture devices ? Simply because they find it as a way to save money by hiring less people. So they make things as convenient for themselves as they can, while sticking the INconvenience X 10 upon us. Well, no good!>> businesses. You hire the adequate number of people that is needed to do the job (ie. to have a LIVE PERSON answer the phone, AT ALL TIMES that you're open for business) or you shouldn't expect to get any business, period. But quit laying the inconvenience (and your rudeness) on the people who are putting the food on your table, OK ?

And if you don't (as is highly likely), then WE have to step up to the plate and (EN MASSE) contact "our" elected representitives to FORCE you to do it (ie. to BAN those (*)(*)(*)(*) voicemails).

If a potential client wants to have someone pick up the phone every time he calls me, then he/she is not a good client for me. If you want to do business with someone who always picks up the phone, that's your choice.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander, right? I think that home voicemail/answering machines should also be banned. You should be required to pay someone to answer your home phone and your cellphone 24/7 or do so yourself. Also, email should be banned. Hell, posting on these forums i is just a way to save money over paying for newspapers and having our opinions printed in a paper column. Ban Political Forum and go back to the glory days when opinions were only produced on paper. Or, even better, soapboxes on market days. If you want people to hear your luddite message, it should be only while on a soapbox in a market square.

Originally Posted by Margot

It really is a pain in the rear, isn't it.

When I call my docs.. I get a 20 minute exercise.. likewise the bank..

Just put a message on your cell saying.. don't leave me a message.. thank you..

It won't be perfect.. but it will help.

I don't play ball on the devil's team. And I'm primarily talking about when I call them, not when they're calling me. it's time for us to get rid of spending hours on the phone for what should take minutes.

PS - I expect to hear from some business owners who are going to crab that this will hurt their business. Here's two answers for you in advance:

1. Before answering machines, businesses got along very well without any recording answering devices. You can too.

2. Tough ! You're the kind of guys that government was designed to protect us from.

Originally Posted by BleedingHeadKen

If a potential client wants to have someone pick up the phone every time he calls me, then he/she is not a good client for me. If you want to do business with someone who always picks up the phone, that's your choice.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander, right? I think that home voicemail/answering machines should also be banned. You should be required to pay someone to answer your home phone and your cellphone 24/7 or do so yourself. Also, email should be banned. Hell, posting on these forums i is just a way to save money over paying for newspapers and having our opinions printed in a paper column. Ban Political Forum and go back to the glory days when opinions were only produced on paper. Or, even better, soapboxes on market days. If you want people to hear your luddite message, it should be only while on a soapbox in a market square.

You have just increased my determination to get rid of all your ass-clown devices.

Originally Posted by protectionist

PS - I expect to hear from some business owners who are going to crab that this will hurt their business. Here's two answers for you in advance:

1. Before answering machines, businesses got along very well without any recording answering devices. You can too.

There were a lot fewer businesses. There were also fewer consumers who could afford the services of those businesses. You aren't just hurting businesses, with your anti-economic schemes, but the consumers as well.

2. Tough ! You're the kind of guys that government was designed to protect us from.

It's the job of government to protect you from having to leave a message in the hopes of being called back? Maybe it's just that people don't call you back because you are the kind of customer they don't want to deal with. Anyway, is it also the job of government to protect you from having to wipe your own rear end?

If you don't like it, tell the company you don't like it or go through someone else. I told Sprint to (*)(*)(*)(*) off after they screwed me over. Never looked back. As for calling other people, the key is to hang up once the voicemail comes up. That's what I do and it works every time.

Originally Posted by protectionist

You have just increased my determination to get rid of all your ass-clown devices.

I'd just create programs that sound like human beings and react to the stupid complaints of luddite ignoramuses by asking them to never call again, threatening them with harassment charges if they do, and then hanging up on them.

Originally Posted by BleedingHeadKen

There were a lot fewer businesses. There were also fewer consumers who could afford the services of those businesses. You aren't just hurting businesses, with your anti-economic schemes, but the consumers as well.



It's the job of government to protect you from having to leave a message in the hopes of being called back? Maybe it's just that people don't call you back because you are the kind of customer they don't want to deal with. Anyway, is it also the job of government to protect you from having to wipe your own rear end?

Anti-government, huh ? That's the same as being anti-the American people. No, there were NOT a lot fewer businesses, and even if there were that has nothing to do with it. What has to do with it is just what I said. Businesses rudely sticking their customers with annoying inconvenience so as to cut their costs and boost their profits, and we all know it.

As for the "job of government to protect you from having to leave a message in the hopes of being called back". Yup. Absolutely. Among many other things. And I didn't say anything about anybody not wanting to call back. There is no problem there. The problem is them not taking the call in the first place. But you knew that, you just rearranged the subject so as to take a shot at me. You failed.