OT: taking messages?

[T]

Hi All,

Okay, teenagers taking messages for their parents just does not happen. It is to be expected.

But I have noticed lately that business folks seldom actually give messages to each other. I get a lot of "didn't you get my message?", to which I respond "I called you back and left you a message. Didn't you get it?".

Several have told me that when it comes to taking messages, it pretty much does not happen.

I have found that the best way to get a call back into their hands is to page them with my phone number.

Frustrating.

Huh...

Maybe those teenagers are now in the workforce?

-T

[Thomas]

It is easier to not respond.

[T]

Should have been "text them"

[gfretwell]

Text or some form of Email (web response etc) seems to be the preferred way of communicating these days. There are a few, mostly offshore, companies who only respond to Facebook. You do have the advantage of being able to save your correspondence.

[micky]

I don't h ave kids, but on TV there are all these episodes where kids insist they are old enough to stay out past 10, 11, 12, 4, or to borrow the car for 5 or 10 hours, or to own a car, and other things.

Seems to me if they can't take a message a relay it to the person for whom it's intended, they're not old enough to stay up past 9, and parents should enforce that.

As to work, I believe you. I guess you can ask whoever you talk to what there name is. I know when people call me at work and want to leave a message, I always tell them my name. I say I'm "Trader".

[Roger Blake]

I don't do texting and never go to Facebook. Email is fine but I don't have a smartphone or any mobile access to it, so I won't see it until I'm in front of a computer. If anyone insists on only texting or buries themselves inside Facebook I just won't deal with them.

[gfretwell]

I really only had to go to Facebook once for a dog training collar problem. They ignored every other form of communication but when my dog bitched about it on Facebook, they sent me a new one right away. I don't have a Facebook account but my dog does. ;-)

[rbowman]

Years ago I had a cubicle mate who was very good at answering the phone and taking messages. I even liked her Playboy calendar although HR took exception to it.

[trader_4]

You actually get to a person to take a message? You must be living in 1970. Few companies have secretaries and phone answering people anymore. You're probably trying hard and getting to somebody like the janitor, who isn't responsible for taking and delivering messages. Why don't these people have voice mail, if they want to receive messages and accurate ones?

[Xeno]

That's one very smart dog! ;-)

[Ed Pawlowski]

We had a female fork truck operator at one place I worked. The guys she worked with all got along well. One of the guys said, "we have a lot in common, we all like girls"

[gfretwell]

I think the beef is that voice mail is often write only storage.

[gfretwell]

Yellow lab, accept no substitutes. That is a problem solving dog. That is why so many become service dogs. They can solve a problem, even when you don't want them to.

[gfretwell]

The butchie looking loading dock manager at one of my customers was more circumspect. She said "Why should I limit my dating choices to half the population."? She was a trysexual, she would try anything. My shift partner took her for a spin for a while. He said it was OK if you want no responsibility at all in the relationship. Sort of like bull riding, just try to hang on for the whole ride except this bull would hold you on until she was done.

[Rod Speed]

But have the major downside that almost all of them end up obese.

I prefer alsatians myself, but they do have some downsides, they shed the inner layer of fur in the summer and those that don't understand dogs are quite fearful of them.

Much smarter than a lab tho, which is why the cops use them instead of labs.

[Clare Snyder]

Even before you realize there IS a problem - - -

[gfretwell]

Cops use German Shepherds here for "enforcement/compliance" dogs because they have lots of aggression but when they want a search dog, they use labs. The dogs at the airport in NZ were labs too.

[Rod Speed]

And are much more powerful dogs.

Ours don't. Ours use dogs with better noses than labs have and smaller dogs are more useful when running them over a conveyor belt of posted mail etc too.

Ours arent.