This kind of sickens me, who treats their family like that?
She's a horrible excuse for a relative. Yea, I get the point that "nobody picks up the phone these days", but it was her own sister calling.
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#12I have a habit of doing this too, actually. Talking on the phone just feels too much like work.
Even when a relative calls?
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#13I think this is a side effect of the Internet. Smartphones give you unlimited information at your fingertips. With all the distractions online, it's easy to become detached from your friends and family. I have the same problem.
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#14"And yet, I watched the call come in without touching my phone." Pro tip: Hit the volume rocker to mute the ringer without cancelling the call. Works on at least iOS and most Androids.
The top button on iphone will mute the ringing and let it "ring out" as if you're away.
I feel sneaky using it as opposed to declining the call, but Italy's best rule for warfare as always been "the best defense is to not be there".
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#15It's funny, I'm often exactly the opposite. Sometimes I'll just call people up...without warning, without scheduling. It'll catch them off guard at first, but I find it hands-down more efficient. Often times five minutes on the phone can garner a resolution easier than eight hours on an email chain (only to end up scheduling a call for the next day).
I really wish that people were more open to this; it's strange because it's how most of the world operated 10 years ago, but the thought of just calling someone up is almost ludicrous now...
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#16I always pick up because I'm excited that someone wants to talk to me.
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#18"And yet, I watched the call come in without touching my phone." Pro tip: Hit the volume rocker to mute the ringer without cancelling the call. Works on at least iOS and most Androids.
The top button on iphone will mute the ringing and let it "ring out" as if you're away. I feel sneaky using it as opposed to declining the call, but Italy's best rule for warfare as always been "the best defense is to not be there".
It can be sneaky or considerate, depends when you use it. The problem with the abrupt "hanging up" button is it's binary like a car horn - there's no way to do it nicely. If you're in a meeting where you can't take the call, it's a gentle way to let the caller down.
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#19This kind of sickens me, who treats their family like that?
She's a horrible excuse for a relative. Yea, I get the point that "nobody picks up the phone these days", but it was her own sister calling.
You forgot “and then wasn’t even bothered to listen to the voicemail”.
Why would you even want to talk to her, with that monumental level of disdain?
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#20the new rules of engagement: Call only if truly necessary. Text first.
These new rules of engagement are also old rules of engagement. In older times people called only if truly necessary. They hand-wrote letters otherwise.
I wish people started writing letters again. There could be a startup idea waiting to be discovered around this.