Seems like every time I get someone's voicemail box nowadays, they say the same weird thing. It's 'professional' wording, but it just doesn't make sense - like they're all parroting the phrase that people use when leaving messages, but they're using it backwards-
They say, "Please leave your name and number, and a brief message, and I'll get back to you at my earliest convenience."
At my earliest convenience - that's essentially saying, yeah, dude, you may think what you're calling about is important, but I'm going to take my own sweet little time getting back to you; gotta wait till it's nice and convenient for me.
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So what should they say?
My voicemail used to include a little thing about how I may just not feel like answering the phone right now, and so many people expressed offense that I ended up changing it.
Friggin' cry-babies.
-as soon as I can
-as soon as possible
-when I get in
Yeah, that's one of those things that everyone does, but hopes nobody does to them.
But none of those are true! ;)
As for "Yeah, that's one of those things that everyone does, but hopes nobody does to them." - I don't care either way. . . If it's an emergency I'll leave a message saying so and/or call again soon after. . . but otherwise, I am not down with this culture of immediacy. . .
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