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Voicemail doesn't seem as "on the record" as email. I wonder, does this matter?
Funny, I had the opposite response. Since it was Coca Cola HQ that ditched VM, I was guessing they didn't want those records around. (Sarbanes-Oxley requires maintaining the VMs IIRC).
As many point out, there's more verbosity to a VM than email/text, and that can work against you in bad situations, like an investigation.
I lived in the US and currently in Brazil, so it's great to see two different aspects of the "voice mail culture". Before cell phones were introduced here, almost every one in middle class had someone bring them an answering machine. When cell phones started showing up, thou, people didn't use voice mails that much. Today, when you wanna talk to someone and they're not available, you just leave a text or a WhatsApp m…
I had that problem too. Now, the company phone system emails voice messages left on voice mail. It's very effective, and I never miss a voice message now. I like to think they did that because of me (but probably not).
The first thing I do when I sit down at a new job is disconnect my landline or VoIP phone and put it in a drawer. HipChat, Skype chat, Email, text, or FB message, please. Voice is dead to me. I'm looking forward to the day when you can buy a SIM card from a cell carrier which offers only data and text, no voice call support. Also, am I the only one that is mildly disappointed that Coke's headquarters isn't shaped lik…
You can get these now. Get an LTE USB stick sim and add a $10 text package to it. You can add voice as well, but why bother.
The first thing I do when I sit down at a new job is disconnect my landline or VoIP phone and put it in a drawer. HipChat, Skype chat, Email, text, or FB message, please. Voice is dead to me. I'm looking forward to the day when you can buy a SIM card from a cell carrier which offers only data and text, no voice call support. Also, am I the only one that is mildly disappointed that Coke's headquarters isn't shaped lik…
This is absolutely ridiculous. Do you expect Subway's headquarters to be shaped like a cold-cut sandwich?
In all seriousness, The Coca-Cola Company produces and distributes only their syrup concentrate to franchisees, whom bottle it for sale. Yes they have a subsidiary which oversees North American production and distribution of beverages, however that is the only one they own and operate.
And, with that in mind, their headquarters should resemble a large bag of goo instead of their trademark bottles.
Voicemail doesn't seem as "on the record" as email. I wonder, does this matter?
The first thing I do when I sit down at a new job is disconnect my landline or VoIP phone and put it in a drawer. HipChat, Skype chat, Email, text, or FB message, please. Voice is dead to me. I'm looking forward to the day when you can buy a SIM card from a cell carrier which offers only data and text, no voice call support. Also, am I the only one that is mildly disappointed that Coke's headquarters isn't shaped lik…
The first thing I do when I sit down at a new job is disconnect my landline or VoIP phone and put it in a drawer. HipChat, Skype chat, Email, text, or FB message, please. Voice is dead to me. I'm looking forward to the day when you can buy a SIM card from a cell carrier which offers only data and text, no voice call support. Also, am I the only one that is mildly disappointed that Coke's headquarters isn't shaped lik…
> Also, am I the only one that is mildly disappointed that Coke's headquarters isn't shaped like a huge Coke can? This is absolutely ridiculous. Do you expect Subway's headquarters to be shaped like a cold-cut sandwich? In all seriousness, The Coca-Cola Company produces and distributes only their syrup concentrate to franchisees, whom bottle it for sale. Yes they have a subsidiary which oversees North American produc…
How on earth do they do that???
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voice mail is asynchronous for the person sending it, but it's somewhat synchronous when you're on the receiving end: you cannot skip through the boring parts right to the interesting content, you have to linearly listen to the entire message. I think this is the biggest problem with voicemail. If all voicemail could turn speech into text, and it would end up in your e-mail inbox or "voice mail" app on your phone, we…
This is what I use Google Voice for. It translates the voice mail into text, and will send it in an email. It's not perfect, but it's good enough to figure out why the person called, and it does a good job capturing the phone number the person leaves.
