Whose voice was that?
Picture this scene.
You’re busy concentrating on something in the office or perhaps having a conversation with someone, but only half concentrating as you’re dialling a phone number to make a call. The phone rings a couple of times, it’s answered and you finish the conversation you were having with the other person, or perhaps finish your train of thinking and then realise that there is a beep and you were listening (well, only half listening) to a voicemail message. You leave your message and hang up.
A couple of days pass and you realise that person hasn’t returned your call. How rude. So you shoot them an email (or DM them via Twitter) and ask them if they got your message?
Their response is they didn’t. The person you were calling checks their phone logs or voicemail and there is no message from you. What did actually happen?
Chances are you rang a wrong or old number but because you weren’t listening to what took place at the other end after it stopped ringing you can’t even be sure who was on the voicemail message or if it was a blanket recorded message used by Telco services.
Ever happened to you? mmm, thought so. I believe this happens to too many people and it’s a sign of busy-ness and trying to get several things done at once. Trouble is we end up causing delays for ourselves simply because we weren’t paying attention at the time we made the original call.
So, what are you going to do on your next phone call? Listen did you say? Thought so.
