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All good ideas, and I...Bob Parsons' hardass time management By: Merlin Mann (27 replies) November 28, 2005 - 3:44am |
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All good ideas, and I...
All good ideas, and I have a co-worker who puts this in his VM message. “…and I will promptly return your call, unless it is an unsolicted sales call”
I myself go with this. “You have reached the voice mail box of (change voice and give name). This mailbox is at 90% of total capacity.” It either causes people to get to the point, or they hang up.
What I can’t stand is that whenever I call anyone at SBC (Some Big Corporation) they never answer their phone. I can call 50 times, and it goes to VM no matter what time of the day I call. I can call from any number, it doesn’t matter. They have an internal culture of letting every call go to VM, no matter what.