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My favorite is this call from an unknown caller. /ring Me: Hello. Caller: Hello, is this <my name> Me: Who is this? Caller: IS THIS <my name>? Me: Who is
by thomk 9y ago
My favorite is this call from an unknown caller.
/ring
Me: Hello.
Caller: Hello, is this <my name>
Me: Who is this?
Caller: IS THIS <my name>?
Me: Who is this?
Caller: Sir, I can not give you any information until you identify yourself.
Me: Hahah. /click
Don't call me and make demands. Seriously. If you aren't willing to tell me why you just called this number, I'm not even going to verify I'm a person let alone identify myself.
- Strom 9y agoI frequently experience a variant of this where they don't even know who I am. Me: Hello! Caller: Am I talking to an individual or a company? Me: You should know who you're calling. My answer really throws a wrench into their flowchart, they don't even know which product/service to try to sell me.
- grkvlt 9y agoWhat's interesting here is how things are different from say 20-30 years ago, when everyone would answer their land-line with 'Hello, this is NAME on NUMBER, can I help you' or some variant. This is how I was taught to answer the phone at home, certainly. Perhaps what's changed is that calls are no longer expensive, and numbers are no longer hand-dialled, so knowing as quickly as possible that you had connected to the wrong number or person is not as important. There's probably other cultural issues at work, I guess, to do with an increased awareness of privacy and so on. The way we communicate has certainly been changed by the Internet and mobile phones in an enormous way.