http://pragmaticcommunication.wordpress.com/2007/04/16/voice-mail-is-a-tool-let-it-work-for-you/ Pragmatic Communication Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:03:54 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://pragmaticcommunication.wordpress.com/2007/04/16/voice-mail-is-a-tool-let-it-work-for-you/#comment-65 lord boris roberts Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:02:22 +0000 http://pragmaticcommunication.wordpress.com/2007/04/16/voice-mail-is-a-tool-let-it-work-for-you/#comment-65 I appreciate your comments regarding mobile phones. We seem to think that when the bell rings whether it is mobile phones or land line phones, we have to stand to attention and answer it regardless of what we are doing or who we are talking to at the moment. It is rude to cut off your conversation to answer someone else. a phone call is like someone coming up to you and cutting into your conversation. I always feel that if it is important they will call back. Letting calls go to our voice mail is the perfect solution because the person calling can state their business without interrupting us and you can call them back when you are finished. You are so right, the person we are talking to deserves our attention. One of my pet peeves is when I am standing at a reception desk at a hotel etc. and in the middle of a conversation that is obviously important to me and to the hotel, the phone rings and I and my problem is immediately dropped. How do I feel? Slighted, less important and my needs unimportant. I appreciate your comments regarding mobile phones. We seem to think that when the bell rings whether it is mobile phones or land line phones, we have to stand to attention and answer it regardless of what we are doing or who we are talking to at the moment. It is rude to cut off your conversation to answer someone else. a phone call is like someone coming up to you and cutting into your conversation. I always feel that if it is important they will call back. Letting calls go to our voice mail is the perfect solution because the person calling can state their business without interrupting us and you can call them back when you are finished. You are so right, the person we are talking to deserves our attention. One of my pet peeves is when I am standing at a reception desk at a hotel etc. and in the middle of a conversation that is obviously important to me and to the hotel, the phone rings and I and my problem is immediately dropped. How do I feel? Slighted, less important and my needs unimportant.

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