Does nobody answer their phone anymore?

Deadman

breakstuff said:

Are you mad?

No one uses phones for making calls on anymore.

What's all this "phones make calls" talk? Are you shitting me?

breakstuff

Just had this argument with my two teenage boys.They both walk around constantly with their phones glued to their hands yet they're still incapable of answering the bloody things when you ring them.Then you threaten to take them off them 'cos we pay the contract,not you' and world war three breaks out.

Teenagers can be such bellends sometimes.

Sambostar

One day they'll be buying phones for you and you'll no doubt about it, do exactly the same thing and they'll be worried sick.

Alnico

breakstuff said:

Just had this argument with my two teenage boys.They both walk around constantly with their phones glued to their hands yet they're still incapable of answering the bloody things when you ring them.Then you threaten to take them off them 'cos we pay the contract,not you' and world war three breaks out.

Teenagers can be such bellends sometimes.

Just pick the weakest one and rough him up in front of the other one.

They soon back off and don't give you any more crap.

If you wake up in a heap a bit sore, i'm sorry mate, i thought it might work !

I'd steal their phones and hide them in the cupboard you keep the cleaning products in. Teenagers would never look there !

Danny1969

I think ringing them is a sign your trying to reach them on Whats Ap or Snap Chat or Facebook messenger or whatever the fuck they use these days ..... they never think to just answer the dam thing!!

breakstuff

Alnico said:

I'd steal their phones and hide them in the cupboard you keep the cleaning products in. Teenagers would never look there !

Genius!

That might work with the wifes phone too 

mgaw

it would certainly work if they did it to me

57Deluxe

..due to the preponderance of Asian call center scammers and people wanting to know who is in charge of my: Vehicle Fleet, Energy Purchasing, Charity Donations... I do not answer the phone hardly at all any more.

I don't know what came over me to answer this even,,,

Phil_aka_Pip

57Deluxe said:

..due to the preponderance of Asian call center scammers and people wanting to know who is in charge of my: Vehicle Fleet, Energy Purchasing, Charity Donations... I do not answer the phone hardly at all any more.

I don't know what came over me to answer this even,,,

I used to get that in a previous employment. A technique I learned from a job previous to that one was to invent a fictitious character and promise to get him to call the caller back again. The last person I invented was Derek Topping, a previous boss invented Paul Johnson, but we actually had one of those at the place where I worked at the time, hence Derek Topping. He was never at his desk - usually in a meeting or out on business.

scrumhalf

In a previous job we used to get calls trying to sell us franking machine labels.

I got the calls put through to me, and I became my alter ego, a belligerent Scotsman called Francis McSheen. I had endless fun with that one.

thecolourbox

I don't usually answer mine unless I fancy a row with a call centre, then I get annoyed with the futility because it's like playing I spy with Stevie Wonder so I give up