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[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Voice notes on WhatsApp/iMessage is essentially the exact same thing as voicemail but for some reason zoomers are happier with those.

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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Brilliant. I'm stealing this.

[–] obsolete@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

I am hard of hearing. I hate voicemail. And, I hate that I can no longer record voicemail. There has been too many incidences where I can't understand the crucial details in a voicemail.

[–] pfr@lemmy.sdf.org -3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Yeah, until she applies for a job and the recruiter tried to call her to offer an interview.

For me the most annoying part of voicemail is navigating through the menu. But I'm also not scared of taking to people on the phone so perhaps my opinion doesn't count here.

Good luck to her when she wants to start being taken seriously.

[–] Omnipitaph@reddthat.com 3 points 6 days ago

Depends on the industry. In my industry, Email is king and text is Queen. Unless its a zoom call, it ain't happening.

[–] Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

lol, only production matters child, once you are ready to become a Worker™, then you you will be required to use voicemail

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[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 94 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

See, for me, if you call me and don't leave a voicemail, I'm going to assume it was unimportant (or spam) and I won't call back. Businesses, which are most likely going to an unknown number, should leave a voicemail if they want any action on my part. I mostly don't want businesses texting me because they tend to spam the fuck out of you. And I'm sure as fuck never going to pick up the phone for an unknown number.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Recently, I've been getting calls I'm pretty sure are spam. They are all from different numbers, but all of the area codes are from where I got my phone number, which is quite far from where I live now. Additionally, they all do leave voicemails, but each and every one is exactly thirty seconds of silence.

Spam or not, I can't figure out the point.

[–] Spookyghost@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They spoof a number close to your number to increase the chance you pickup, they don't know you moved.

I'd bet the silence calls are to determine if a phone number is active.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I definitely know about the spoofing - that's what made me figure it was spam initially.

The waiting for a voice response makes sense, but I've never encountered a system that didn't at least say some form of "hello." Not this persistent of one, anyway.

Thanks!

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

Interesting, one of the recent voicemails I received was a very high-quality voice courtesy one of everyone’s favorite text-to-speech companies (perhaps ElevenLabs)

Wonder if it’s possible they were trying to route on the fly, if they had such a low latency system that they’re able to wait for potential victims to say hello before instantly transferring to a human scammer.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Probably a bot waiting for a voice in order to start. It waits until it hangs up.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 66 points 1 week ago (2 children)

When I had a work mobile phone in Australia I had my voicemail saying I was on leave and to call the office.

The boss wasn't happy, but the customers actually called the service desk because of it.

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Your boss would be breaking the law in Australia, now explicitly under the new right to disconnect legislation, if they said anything about it.

(Though, could have probably been argued in the past also as unpaid overtime in the past)

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[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Is that not normal? Most people business wise I’ve contacted or even for medical stuff in Canada they do. Auto email response, change voicemail to contact X or the receptionist.

[–] stevestevesteve@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

They're saying they left the voicemail as "on leave" when they were not in reality

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[–] MrFloppy@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My kid can make 100 push ups, when Nobody's watching.

[–] LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I love that meme! I can see this one being real though

[–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago

ya if the child is old enough to know what a phone call is, they are old enough to understand how pointless voicemails are

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Mine is "You have reached my phone but not me, I don't really check voicemail, if you need to reach me, text." I still get voicemail.

Some voicemail the phone will transcribe, those I read but really don't listen to them.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

Some people just can't fathom communicating other than a voice call lol

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Why I still end up listening to a voicemail after reading the transcription:

Edit: Image had a visible phone number in it. Wasn't mine (just grabbed from Google) but still probably not cool to spread that around. 😔

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[–] mordoko@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

here in chile we dont longer use voicemail, cant remember when was the last time i heard one... That said, a lot of people send whatsapp audios, i understand its easier for some folks, but, common!

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

In Colombia I get a shocking number of voice messages via WhatsApp. I got a 4-minute message from my landlord last week that had 20 seconds of actual information.

The transcribe option in the app is reasonably good, but it's not 100% accurate.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (9 children)

The absolute worst thing about voicemail is that you can't just listen to the one you just got. I have about 50 unheard voicemails at this point. You leave one? I have to work my way through 50 just to hear yours. And it doesn't even let me work from most recent. Nope. Just never going to happen.

[–] Zess@lemmy.world -2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Life must really suck when you're too dumb to know how things work.

As your dad proved when he couldn't figure out the condom

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[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago

Visual voicemail (voicemail transcribed to text) has been a godsend for me. The number of doctors offices that call with an unlisted number is staggering.

[–] polle@feddit.org 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Voicemail is actually really nice, if people call you and don't leave a message, the call was not important or a spam call. Its like the perfect filter.

[–] kassiopaea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah but I get like 5 spam calls a week from "Nicole with loan processing" or "Joshua Martinez from the loan issuance department" and they always leave a voicemail that I have to delete because I tried to get a personal loan 4 months ago.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm an old guy, but I hate voice mail. Mine says "You can try to leave a message, but it's probably full, and I'll never listen to it anyway, so either send a text to this number, or send an email to XXX, and I'll get back to you ASAP."

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[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago

i think I have my voicemail as the disconnected phone sound to stave off robocallers. anybody who wanted to call me texted me immediately after to confirm.

[–] ynthrepic@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Mine emails me an attachment with the recording. It's a lot easier than the old call up voicemail to listen to your messages etc. Lot of people prefer it to writing with their phones.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I disabled my voicemail. Problem solved.

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[–] ElectricWaterfall@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don’t like voicemail typically, but I have some voicemails from family members who have passed away and I cherish listening to them.

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[–] Gnugit@aussie.zone 8 points 1 week ago

Need to teach her how to turn off voicemail redirection.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

i have mine turned off from the cell provider. best thing i did.

[–] Oderus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Until someone sends you a voice to text message. Like fuck that.

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