Mobile Phone Calls and Messages

[Rowan]

If you are away from your mobile, or even have it off for a period of time, and you return to discover you've received calls, yet also have voice mail messages, do you...

a. listen to the voice mail messages first, then proceed with callbacks.
b. start calling people without listening to the messages?

[princess garnet]

A.
I'd like to hear what the messages are and then return calls.

[LCW]

Always listen to the voicemails first.

This is OT but it reminds me, I got a new cell and new # last month and I keep getting automated calls from a local middle school telling me that my child was absent that day. I don't have kids!! :confused:

[Rowan]

This is OT but it reminds me, I got a new cell and new # last month and I keep getting automated calls from a local middle school telling me that my child was absent that day. I don't have kids!! :confused:


My cousin has the same problem, lila. We were at her house for Gustav and she kept getting text alerts letting her know the schools were closed. She doesn't have kids either and said it's been going on since she got the number. You'd think there would be a way to contact whoever and tell them to stop calling/texting.

[Misfit]

I am not a big cell phone user personally, but it is very frustrating when you take the time to leave a voice mail on a person's phone and what do they do but call up the number and say somebody called me. With 5-10 people in an office do you think everyone knows who was calling everyone else?

[Rowan]

My point exactly, Misfit. I'm surrounded by idiots who do option B over A.

[Divia]

I don't have the option of voice message. Well I have the option but I'm too damn cheap to pay for it. :D I pay $26.00 a month for 40 mintues and have had this plain for eh....9 years. I'm not that important to have a cel phone where everyone can call me nor do I want one. I have no kids, my brother lives in FL, my parents can typically find me and my friends get in contact with me eventually.

[diamondlil]

Given so few people actually call me, I tend to know their numbers so I call back. I really hate listening to message bank messages.

[pat]

I dont listen to messages as I dont get left them! My outgoing message says something like: Hi, sorry I cant take your call, I am probably driving or unable to come to the phone. Please dont leave a message as I cant access them! Just ring back later!

It works!

[Carine]

I don't get many calls, I actually just have a mobile phone to be accessible for my 2 sons. If there is a voice mail message I'll listen to it first before I call back.

[Mara]

I don't get too many calls either. If it's my other half I'd probably phone before listening to his message but for anyone else it would be option A.

As for 'unknown' callers who withhold their numbers - I don't answer the phone to them! If it's important, they leave a message - and only then I call them back. If they don't - tough! :p

[EC2]

I only use my mobile when I'm away from home. Rest of the time - which can be months on end it's switched off. I hate them - but sometimes they're a useful necessary evil.

[Misfit]

As for 'unknown' callers who withhold their numbers - I don't answer the phone to them! If it's important, they leave a message - and only then I call them back. If they don't - tough!

Well I have to say as the company collector when someone drops off the face of the earth and doesn't return calls my favorite tactic is to take one of the driver's cell phones with a blocked number and lo and behold I get someone to answer the phone. I _just love_ hearing their drawers drop on the other end of the line. A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do to get paid. :rolleyes::o:)

[JaneConsumer]

I got a new cell and new # last month and I keep getting automated calls from a local middle school telling me that my child was absent that day. I don't have kids!!

For a year or more after I got a new cell number, I had a woman leaving VM telling me to stop chasing after her BF. :eek:

My answer is A.

[MLE]

My cell phone is for emergency road use only. I have one of those plans where you pay ten cents a minute, no fees, no monthly payment, and it takes me over a year to go through what I used to pay in three months of regular service.
If anybody leaves a message on my cell, it's usually a wrong number.

Mostly I sit in front of two phone lines, so if people want to get a hold of me, they can call me on one of those.