• SolidShake@lemmy.worldOP
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      4 days ago

      I get that but even if you were to sprint away from your phone at full speed you’d still hear the ringtone and be maybe 1 foot away. I’m literal when I mean “call back right away”. Like if I’m working and I see a phone call, and I go to hit “answer” but the call ends just before. And then I call them back within 5 seconds. There’s no way your phone is on a table and you’re 10 yards away.

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      I’d rather get sent straight to voice mail than hang around in the limbo that “Call waiting” is.

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    I was obligated to call but did not want to make the call. Now I can report back that the call was made and that there was no asnwer.

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      Alternately why bother leaving a message when they just ask you why you called when they do call back?

      Then again I’m old enough to have had to use a rotary phone so that could be a factor in my personal experience

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        If you’re like me and old enough to have used one of those phones then I don’t understand your perspective at all. I didn’t know who called me if I missed a call back then. So I couldn’t return it. Answering machines didn’t come till much later. And then again if they didn’t leave a message I wouldn’t know so therefore wouldn’t return the call.

        If someone calls me and doesn’t leave a message, or then doesn’t send a text, I assume they didn’t mean to call or that it wasn’t that important and I just let it go. Not worth my time.

  • Pika@sh.itjust.works
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    Ignoring my phone because I prefer to text anyway, so you not answering was a massive relief to me. Chances are if you text instead I’ll respond, or can leave a voice mail, but honestly if I didn’t leave a message or send a text about it, it wasn’t important enough/mission critical in the first place so don’t worry about it