That’s what words are for… If you pick up, and say “hello,” they will say why they are calling. God damn people will do everything in their power to NOT communicate with eachother these days
I can read why you’re calling in 3 seconds and it takes no mental energy if I don’t care. If I talk to you I need to use significantly more mental energy and it’s more disruptive to anything I was focusing on. The people I least want to talk to are the most likely to call, and are the ones who will be the least direct about why they’re calling and waste the most of my time.
Not wanting to talk to you on the phone is not the same as not communicating. The vast majority of phone calls are basically someone saying “stop what you’re doing, what I want to talk to you about is more important” and they’re wrong.
Good point, but in these scenarios you are free to just hang up. Most people I think are afraid of offending someone but if they are being assholes (salesman/scammers) you have no obligation to be nice or continue the conversation. I find it empowering, even cathartic to say something like, “Oh, you’re one of those pieces of shit scammers I’ve heard about. Good day, piece of shit” or simply, “I don’t have time for your bs” and hang up.
Sure, I could, but I don’t want to waste my time. I don’t get catharsis out of that.
Doesn’t mean I don’t talk to people, and even if I didn’t talk to people on the phone… So what?
This exact argument applies to caller ID too. If you pick up you will hear their voice or they will tell you where they are calling from. Still would rather have caller ID.
You’re right that people avoid talking to people nowadays, preferring a text or an email or whatever. But that’s not the point here, it’s being interrupted from whatever you’re doing to answer the phone for no reason. Modern autodialers make calls continuously, and when someone answers they feed the call to whichever telemarketer in the room is open. If they’re all occupied the machine just hangs up, but it keeps dialing because they don’t want to pay their minimum wage workers to sit idle for precious seconds. So for that reason people out in the world have to stop what they’re doing to pick up the phone, say “Hello” and hear nothing but dead air and then a click. It’s the tech equivalent of kids ringing people’s doorbells and running away, except for profit. Fuck that crap.
That’s what words are for… If you pick up, and say “hello,” they will say why they are calling. God damn people will do everything in their power to NOT communicate with eachother these days
I can read why you’re calling in 3 seconds and it takes no mental energy if I don’t care. If I talk to you I need to use significantly more mental energy and it’s more disruptive to anything I was focusing on. The people I least want to talk to are the most likely to call, and are the ones who will be the least direct about why they’re calling and waste the most of my time.
Not wanting to talk to you on the phone is not the same as not communicating. The vast majority of phone calls are basically someone saying “stop what you’re doing, what I want to talk to you about is more important” and they’re wrong.
Good point, but in these scenarios you are free to just hang up. Most people I think are afraid of offending someone but if they are being assholes (salesman/scammers) you have no obligation to be nice or continue the conversation. I find it empowering, even cathartic to say something like, “Oh, you’re one of those pieces of shit scammers I’ve heard about. Good day, piece of shit” or simply, “I don’t have time for your bs” and hang up.
Sure, I could, but I don’t want to waste my time. I don’t get catharsis out of that.
Doesn’t mean I don’t talk to people, and even if I didn’t talk to people on the phone… So what?
This exact argument applies to caller ID too. If you pick up you will hear their voice or they will tell you where they are calling from. Still would rather have caller ID.
You’re right that people avoid talking to people nowadays, preferring a text or an email or whatever. But that’s not the point here, it’s being interrupted from whatever you’re doing to answer the phone for no reason. Modern autodialers make calls continuously, and when someone answers they feed the call to whichever telemarketer in the room is open. If they’re all occupied the machine just hangs up, but it keeps dialing because they don’t want to pay their minimum wage workers to sit idle for precious seconds. So for that reason people out in the world have to stop what they’re doing to pick up the phone, say “Hello” and hear nothing but dead air and then a click. It’s the tech equivalent of kids ringing people’s doorbells and running away, except for profit. Fuck that crap.
I wish they never invented mobile phones, my wage doesn’t justify being bothered outside of work.