An open letter to cell phone companies / voicemail service providers:
Dear Sir/Ma’am:
The automated message that you play after someone’s greeting is too freaking long, and it tries my patience. I don’t want to leave a numeric page; people don’t carry pagers anymore for a reason. I don’t want to explore additional options after leaving a voicemail; I just want to talk to the person, and leaving a quick voice message will have to suffice for the time being. The person I’m calling just finished asking me to leave a detailed message, and they also told me to start talking at the tone; I don’t need to hear it from you, too.
I don’t know why this irks me so, but it does…and I’m suspecting that most people agree with me. Less features are better when it comes to voicemail messages.
Sincerely,
One dude who’s sick and tired of waiting an additional fifteen seconds to leave a blasted voicemail message.
I just don’t leave those people messages, and I tell them why later. I also try diffrent codes. I know with sprint, you just press 1 to leave a message. Another one, I know the sound but not the company, You press 3 to leave a message. What happened to your theme?
I have Sprint, and I found a way to turn off all that crap after my personal message – it’s an option in the menu. I’m sure the other companies have the same thing.
Yah, I’ve noticed those options before too. Of course, I disable everything I possibly can…but don’t you think it should default to something like that?
Hurray! Hope someone at these companies reads this. Maybe add some tags for the specific companies?
Heidi: good call. I don’t know what I was thinking, leaving those out.
Preach it, brother!
Seems like they would at least start their annoying with something like “Press 1 to leave a message now, otherwise, here’s a bunch of bullshit…”