On 6/19/2017 8:39 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
. . .
There are all kinds of terrible things I'd like to wish upon these people,
but I'm trying to learn to be a better person.
Not just that. There are at least a few of us, here and in the 'real' world, who would like you to stay in this
incarnation for a long time. Stressing about phone calls and wishing terrible things out into the world are both health
risks.
Some days are better than others. <g>
The answer is dead simple; if the number is not in your contacts, so doesn't show up as a name - DON'T ANSWER. If they
actually are people you should talk to, they will leave a message. If you want to answer the next time they call, either
add the number to an existing contact or create a new one. On iOS, I don't know if there is a limit to the number of
numbers* that may be stored for any contact, but it is at least several.
So the agency has several outgoing lines; they all show up as the same name when the phone rings.You could just add them
as you encounter them, or ask what they are, and add them to the Contact all at once, by hand.
If you want to be extra polite, your outgoing message could mention that you will not answer unknown numbers, so leave a
message. But mostly, I think folks prefer short OGMs to lengthy politeness.
I've been following this practice for years. I've not had a single instance where I found I missed an important call
from a caller who wouldn't leave a message. Of course, I don't know about the one from John Beresford Tipton, Jr, when
he just moved on to the next name on his list. No, wait, he had his man come to your door with the check.
People who want or need to talk to you leave messages; it's that simple.
Anecdotally, I seem to receive far fewer of these calls than others who complain about them, maybe one a day, on
average, certainly not two. Might this be because my number gets flagged, somewhere, as non-responsive, a dead
number/end, because it NEVER answers? I suspect the tactic of messing with the callers, trying to talk to a person, and
so on, may be self-defeating, in addition to ineffectual.
Calling All Moose
* Numbers² ?
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