I don’t have voicemail set up. I haven’t called myself in a long time to check but I don’t get voicemail notifications on my phone. I hope its that way because I’ll never check it anyway. I don’t even know how.
I guess if I did do voicemail I’d make it sound like I answered the phone and can’t hear well for as long as it would allow. I don’t fully understand the telemarketing industry but an open call line is an open call line and I’ll be happy to waste something of theirs if they want to waste my time.
I forgot I had one of those prank voicemails until a hiring manager reminded me :(
Hi, you’ve reached my voicemail. At the tone, please hang up and send me a text.
Most calls I get are spam, fruad or potentially dangerous so I do record a voicemail but I mirror my carrier default, just "You have reached the voice mail of phone # . I am unable to answer your call right now, please leave your message.
my voicemail greeting is super fast, about 5 seconds. its just my first name and leave a message so the caller can actually leave one
I think it’s a mostly automated voice with me saying my first name at one point
That’s if it’s still even enabled, I should check that…
Default nothing fancy, I don’t give info to random phone calls
- I’m voice-shy, don’t wanna make something awkward, also I kinda cringe at my voice
- I don’t really want my voice cloned, especially if this stranger already knows my phone number
I just leave in the default “Please leave a message for [number] beep”
I only have one recorded voicemail for my work mobile phone telling people I am on leave and call the support line.
Several customers got confused when I answered the support line.
It depends on if I owe anyone money or not.
Yes, mostly for the sake of showing that the voicemail is in fact given some attention. I find it annoying that I get a voicemail, and all it is is the sound of someone hanging up because it’s the default response ergo nobody will check it.
For a long time my voicemail was “Hello?” followed by about a 5 second pause, and then an actual “this is $name you’ve got my voicemail, leave a message thank you”
People. fucking. hated that voicemail with a passion. my own parents would get got by it, and then after not calling me for a few months get got by it all over again
I had recruiters suggest I change it because it was “unprofessional”, which I didn’t because if you can’t laugh at a prank like that I wouldn’t want to work for you I feel like there were more good-natured recruiters that found it funny, and I’d like to think it helped set the tone for the interaction better because of it
it also worked well to filter out spam calls, my speech-to-text voicemail app would out the bots when the text of the recording started mid-sentence and didn’t stop the recorded spiel
more people than not enjoyed the mild prank, and I loved it as a conversation started when calling someone back
OH and my greatest shame is fooling myself with it
my voicemail app wasn’t working right so I wanted to do something using the interactive voicemail options and so used my phone to call myself to operate my voicemail
when I heard “hello?” I hadn’t properly recognized my own voice and thought I might have misdialed my own number and accidentally got some stranger so I answered back “uh, hello?” and when the rest of the greeting after the pause started playing I facepalmed into next week
I’ve never once checked my voicemail and I never will
Mine says if you’ve reached this message it means you’re not on my contacts list and you’ve been filtered. I’ll get to you when I check the message.
But everyone gets the message if I miss their call. It definitely helps reduce spam.
I made mine short - first name. They know the number they called. I see no benefit in having the system tell people to leave a message, everyone knows how this works.
