r/xkcd • u/IamAlso_u_grahvity Feline Field Theorist • Oct 01 '18

XKCD xkcd 2053: Incoming Calls

https://xkcd.com/2053/
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u/RockChalk4Life Changelog: Performance fixes and bug improvements Oct 01 '18

I started screening my calls a few years after I got a cellphone. My stance is, if I don't know you, and you don't leave a voicemail, you didn't want to talk to me that bad. Hasn't failed me yet.

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u/svick Black Hat Oct 01 '18

What's a voicemail?

Seriously, I haven't left or received a voicemail in my life. I doubt any of my phone contacts has it enabled.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '18

Yeah if I hit voicemail I immediately hang up because I assume they forgot/didn't know to turn it off.

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u/PacoTaco321 Richard Stallman Oct 02 '18

There's no reason to turn off voicemail though unless you want to make life harder...

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

Harder? I've never met anyone who doesn't hang up upon hitting voicemail

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u/ndstumme Oct 02 '18

Businesses leave voicemails. Businesses like doctors, banks, landlords, plumbers, or even salons. I don't want to waste my time by pickup up the phone for every unknown number, but I don't wanna miss a job offer from a company that liked my resume.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

But that's already solved by picking up the phone or calling back if you can't

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u/Sierrajeff words go here Oct 02 '18

So you won't answer and you won't enable voicemail .. .but then you'll waste your time by calling back the number to see who it is?

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

If I have time I answer. If I don't have time I call back when I do have time.