For a long time my voicemail was “Hello?” followed by about a 5 second pause, and then an actual “this is $name you’ve got my voicemail, leave a message thank you”
People. fucking. hated that voicemail with a passion. my own parents would get got by it, and then after not calling me for a few months get got by it all over again
I had recruiters suggest I change it because it was “unprofessional”, which I didn’t because if you can’t laugh at a prank like that I wouldn’t want to work for you
I feel like there were more good-natured recruiters that found it funny, and I’d like to think it helped set the tone for the interaction better because of it
it also worked well to filter out spam calls, my speech-to-text voicemail app would out the bots when the text of the recording started mid-sentence and didn’t stop the recorded spiel
more people than not enjoyed the mild prank, and I loved it as a conversation started when calling someone back
OH and my greatest shame is fooling myself with it
my voicemail app wasn’t working right so I wanted to do something using the interactive voicemail options and so used my phone to call myself to operate my voicemail
when I heard “hello?” I hadn’t properly recognized my own voice and thought I might have misdialed my own number and accidentally got some stranger
so I answered back “uh, hello?” and when the rest of the greeting after the pause started playing I facepalmed into next week
For a long time my voicemail was “Hello?” followed by about a 5 second pause, and then an actual “this is $name you’ve got my voicemail, leave a message thank you”
People. fucking. hated that voicemail with a passion. my own parents would get got by it, and then after not calling me for a few months get got by it all over again
I had recruiters suggest I change it because it was “unprofessional”, which I didn’t because if you can’t laugh at a prank like that I wouldn’t want to work for you I feel like there were more good-natured recruiters that found it funny, and I’d like to think it helped set the tone for the interaction better because of it
it also worked well to filter out spam calls, my speech-to-text voicemail app would out the bots when the text of the recording started mid-sentence and didn’t stop the recorded spiel
more people than not enjoyed the mild prank, and I loved it as a conversation started when calling someone back
OH and my greatest shame is fooling myself with it
my voicemail app wasn’t working right so I wanted to do something using the interactive voicemail options and so used my phone to call myself to operate my voicemail
when I heard “hello?” I hadn’t properly recognized my own voice and thought I might have misdialed my own number and accidentally got some stranger so I answered back “uh, hello?” and when the rest of the greeting after the pause started playing I facepalmed into next week