Submitted 7 months ago by Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Could have been a text every time
Pro Tip: when someone asks you an open question like this, always reply with “why’s that?” It forces them to either tell you what they want or bail on it, either way you get time to come up with something to get out of it.
I feel like just responding with a “what’s up?” forces that too, without outwardly saying “…before I answer, why?” Then if they do call and you don’t want to talk, you can ignore it or respond with a rejected call text saying, “can’t talk, what did you need?”
The only person I know who does this is my dad. Which is weird because the literal motherfucker is going deaf so he can’t hear anything over the phone.
So far have blocked about a hundred botspam calls through two separate area exchanges
my phone is for talking to the silly little people on the internet
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 7 months ago
“I don’t want to call”
Done.
Vespair@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Fr. Do people forget that they have autonomy in their experiences? You can still decline the call even if you aren’t actively engaged; nobody is automatically entitled to your free time.
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
You can, but their opinion of you may be damaged by doing so.
gpopides@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Until you get complaints that you are not communicating effectively from management and should embrace random fucking calls that could be 2 small paragraphs of text
Vespair@lemm.ee 7 months ago
From management? If that’s the case I hope you’re clarifying to them that work conversation a legally work, so you will be expect to be paid fully for any hours clocked on the phone outside normal scheduled hours.
Of course if you’re talking about fielding calls while on the clock… well yeah you’re probably gonna have to answer those.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 7 months ago
Has that actually happened to you? I would quit tbh but I am also a priviliged af software dev