Dear People who Use Caller ID,

When you see that you have missed a call, and you see an unfamiliar number associated with that call, please do not call it, the number unknown to you, and tell the poor person on the other end: “Someone from there called me?”

Please. I implore you.

As someone who has been known to answer phone calls for an organization, your Pain In the Ass quotient is right up there with the cold-call salesman who cannot get the name of our CEO correct. Suuuuuure you’re old friends that go waaaaaay back. If you don’t even know his name, I’m not going to let you talk to him. No matter how many times you call back.

Do you know what the receptionist has to do if you tell him/her that “someone from there called” you? The receptionist has to read your mind. And receptionists just love doing that.

Or the receptionist has to ask you a bunch of questions about who you are and how you might be relevant to the organization, questions that you are always hesitant in answering. Then the receptionist gets to call every single department and ask if anyone called you.

Probably? It wasn’t all that important.
Or more probably? It was a misdialed number.

Seriously, if it was important? They would have left a message. Or you would have been expecting the call.

The next time you call and tell me that “someone from there called” you, I am going to say no. No we did not. Now please go away.

21 November 2007 · 14:04:44

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Someone called our place 2 days ago and claimed “Someone from this phone number called at 4:01 AND at 5:02!! Tell them if they don’t stop, I’ll report them to the authorities!!”

…number unavailable on caller ID…
…went over “redial” memory in phone and had not dialed the number from here - even yesterday…
…she sure was mad, though.

love, john at 21nov07, 15:11:35

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