Almost as annoying as the “Answering Machine / Voicemail DJ’s,” is the newest cell phone gimmick, “please enjoy the music while your party is reached.” Inevitably the music is some crappy hip-hop song played from a cheap recording, through my cell phone speaker which sounds like an old 9-volt hand held AM radio I had back in the 70’s.
I can handle that people are idiots and do stuff like this. It’s not the music that annoys me the most. What annoys me is that you have no idea how long you will have to wait for the person to answer; you wonder why you don’t just get sent immediately to voicemail; and during a recent attempt where I called somebody to offer her an interview for a position, I had the same feeling about her that I would have had if I googled the applicant on the web and found her homepage plastered with pictures of her doing keg stands, bare-breasted, while toothless men supported her.
Seriously, it would be more professional to have farting sounds as your greeting. Can’t wait to give you the job.
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chewie on May 5th, 2007 at 10:19 am | Link