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Comment on I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable

Photuris@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I let everyone know:

Text messages are for asynchronous communication. That’s literally what they’re designed for. I will not communicate over texts synchronously.
I will respond to texts within 2 days usually. Do not expect an immediate response.
If you need me immediately or within short order, call me.
If you call me for non-urgent matters that could have been handled over text, I might not pick up the phone right away. The boy who cried wolf, and all that.
I do not always have my phone on me 24/7. Sometimes I am untethered. I return calls far more quickly than I respond to texts, because I assume a call is more important than a text. It had better be.

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TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

If you don’t leave a voicemail, I assume it wasn’t important.

I get asked sometimes when I don’t leave a voicemail why I didn’t. It’s because I don’t really care if you call back. I called because of something urgent, but not important. Just text me instead.

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PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

If you call and I don’t pick up, leave a voicemail. If you don’t leave a voicemail, I assume it wasn’t important

this a thousand times. IDK when people decided to not use the voicemail anymore.

But to be honest I make it more radical and not even return all calls. because. priority 1 - call, not answered but with a voicemail

priority 2 - unanswered call but a message sent afterwards.

priority 3 - message only.

an unanswered call on my side and no further information is for me simply to forget about it.

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- Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Voicemail is annoying. Please never leave me a voicemail. Just text me.
  
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  - PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    appearently when people call they do no like to text. because they have no hands free or whatever
    
    so voicemail is the better option than simply be pissed because i never called back.
    
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SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Ew, calling? No thanks.

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jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I tell people I have a 24 hour response window. Barring exceptional circumstances, I’ll get back to a message within 24 hours. Often faster, but that’s not guaranteed.

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