566
how many times?
when i call someone and they don’t answer, i tend to believe they’re busy or don’t want to talk to me for some other reason.
i don’t call right back… unless it’s an emergency.
when i’m busy at work and an unknown number comes in, i don’t answer. when i’m in a meeting with my boss, and the phone vibrates in my pocket, i don’t even check to see who it is.
unless they call right back! calling twice in a row is a signal that someone really really needs to talk to you asap! emergency!
right? … right?
apparently not.
apparently the new thing among doctors’ and dentists’ front office staff is just to keep calling back again and again and again until you pick up. in a meeting with my boss i excused myself to find the person calling me several times was confirming an appointment, and just now i saw a number come through on my mobile which i didn’t recognize. i didn’t answer because i was in the middle of something.
but then they called on my office phone, so i stopped and answered. it was my dentist’s office confirming tomorrow’s appointment. i went to the mobile; she’d just called three times in a row leaving two voice mails! (one, unintentional.)
next time i think i’ll be compelled to say something.