I think this works only for US and Canadian numbers. Which isn't mentioned anywhere on the website.
I think that's because other cultures don't mind telling others that they are busy /s
An app that lets you pretend to receive a call when a co-worker distracts you
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#12Re: An app that lets you pretend to receive a call when a co-worker distracts you
#13I created a version of this in 2006 (I think), called Getmooh.com - Get Me Out Of Here. The idea was to get people out of bad dates with an automated call. I used the Skype API with VB6 and some natural voice libraries from AT&T. We mostly got used for prank calls with pre-recorded messages we had. Worked OK. But cost us money and I got bored once it was built. We got maybe 60,000 sign ups I think.
I'm pretty sure this was a feature of an old dumbphone, you could set it up so that holding down the number 5 (say) on the key pad would trigger a 'call'. Might have been a Samsung?
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#14This is a blatant advertisement
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#16I think this works only for US and Canadian numbers. Which isn't mentioned anywhere on the website.
There are other countries?!
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#17Reminds me of the "Boss Key" you had in earlier games (or as a TSR in DOS), that showed some fake spreadsheet instead of your game screen. This is basically its cubicle cousin.
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#18Just be honest and say "please don't think I'm being rude, but I really need to get on with this work." You can be assertive without lying or being nasty.
That's ideal and needs to be the first approach. In practice, people that communicate all day don't always understand than other jobs require uninterrupted focus. That's why engineers try things like no-meeting-wednesdays and schedule blocks for coding.
I wouldn't use the tool in question, but I relate to the motivation.
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#19I created a version of this in 2006 (I think), called Getmooh.com - Get Me Out Of Here. The idea was to get people out of bad dates with an automated call. I used the Skype API with VB6 and some natural voice libraries from AT&T. We mostly got used for prank calls with pre-recorded messages we had. Worked OK. But cost us money and I got bored once it was built. We got maybe 60,000 sign ups I think.
I'm pretty sure this was a feature of an old dumbphone, you could set it up so that holding down the number 5 (say) on the key pad would trigger a 'call'. Might have been a Samsung?
Guess it could have been. Our system didn't just call though, you could answer and it talked to (well, at) you.
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#20This is a blatant advertisement
It's a quick side project that might be useful to some, presented in quirky and humorous way. Why does it bother you?