Mood. Someone has been calling me 3 times in the past days and I don’t know who. They left one accidental voice mail that didn’t help and didn’t text or anything. I’m not going to pick up the phone, guess I’ll text them if they try again.
I only accept phone calls from people I know (when other means of communication wouldn’t be practical) or when I’ve specifically agreed to call with someone unknown (like the doctor or something).
As much as I understand not wanting to talk on the phone, I don’t get this mindset. Why not just answer it to find out who they are and what they want so you can make a more informed decision about whether you care what they want? You can always just hang up if you decide you want to be doing something else. Or “something just came up, gotta go” and hang up. Why does it need to be such an ordeal in the first place?
Because 9 times out of 10 it’s a spam call and picking up marks your number as active so it gets called more often. It makes looking for a job so much worse because I have to answer almost every call. Most are spam calls but I can’t afford to miss an employer calling.
I haven’t had that experience with spam/scam calls. Mind you, I’m in Canada and the do not call list has teeth here, though that only applies to spam. But spam/scam call frequency doesn’t appear to be correlated at all with how recently I’ve answered another call.
Mood. Someone has been calling me 3 times in the past days and I don’t know who. They left one accidental voice mail that didn’t help and didn’t text or anything. I’m not going to pick up the phone, guess I’ll text them if they try again.
I only accept phone calls from people I know (when other means of communication wouldn’t be practical) or when I’ve specifically agreed to call with someone unknown (like the doctor or something).
As much as I understand not wanting to talk on the phone, I don’t get this mindset. Why not just answer it to find out who they are and what they want so you can make a more informed decision about whether you care what they want? You can always just hang up if you decide you want to be doing something else. Or “something just came up, gotta go” and hang up. Why does it need to be such an ordeal in the first place?
Because 9 times out of 10 it’s a spam call and picking up marks your number as active so it gets called more often. It makes looking for a job so much worse because I have to answer almost every call. Most are spam calls but I can’t afford to miss an employer calling.
I haven’t had that experience with spam/scam calls. Mind you, I’m in Canada and the do not call list has teeth here, though that only applies to spam. But spam/scam call frequency doesn’t appear to be correlated at all with how recently I’ve answered another call.