Yeah. I stopped calling businesses years ago unless I knew I'd only ever get a robot on the other side. This is particularly unfortunate because there is (usual

Yeah. I stopped calling businesses years ago unless I knew I'd only ever get a robot on the other side. This is particularly unfortunate because there is (usually) value in calls, but the idea of having to talk to a human is so offputting it's enough to lose that value. (As an aside: for whatever reason it's way more common to go from machine --> human on calls, but asking to go from human --> machine is often 1. impossible, and 2. "rude"). Likewise, I also stopped answering my phone for calls other than my own contacts shortly after starting a company. Everyone else can leave a voicemail, and I will either text or email back.