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Younger workers avoid phone calls and it might cost them opportunities
- bigyabai 4mo ago> A new survey of 2,000 Gen Zers and millennials by the self-improvement app RiseGuide ...so a sample of a subset of workers who are all looking for self-help? The survey might be self-selecting for people with anxiety disorders, methinks.
- RugnirViking 4mo agoindeed. Looking at their consumption of self-help content may be my personal single biggest predictor of anxiety in people.
- nacozarina 4mo agoarticle ignores the reality that the vast majority of calls anyone receives nowadays are scams of one form or another they aren’t the simple telemarketer scams of yesterday; many are sophisticated attacks with high-consequence outcomes that require considerable effort to navigate, if engaged. Disengagement is currently an important survival tool.
- cgstark 4mo ago"Robbers are mad that people started locking their doors" there's no way to tell if a phone call is a real opportunity at this point, and even when people can tell, the scam calls far exceed the genuine ones
- adamsiem 4mo agoAll the solutions have become problems themselves now. Anyone feel in control of blocking spam calls? What do you do? Asking for an iOS-native guide.
- acheron 4mo agoPretty easy. 1) Have a phone number with an area code from a place you haven’t lived since 2004 and nobody legitimate would ever call you from. 2) entirely block that area code. That takes care of 98% of it.
- jzemeocala 4mo agoThis is actually my solution
- arealaccount 4mo agoCan try this for unknown numbers: https://support.apple.com/en-us/111106 https://support.apple.com/en-us/111106, most will just hang up > Ask Reason for Calling means these calls are screened (the caller is asked why they're calling before your phone even rings)
- nixosbestos 4mo ago"and it might cost them" lmao fuck right off Business Insider.