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We made quite a few phone-calls yesterday to talk to freshmen who have shown interest in being a part of our ministry. We got through to many people’s voicemails (which was expected). For a handful of folks, their voicemail greeting wasn’t the typical, “Hi, you’ve reached Olaf, please leave your name and number and I’ll call you back.” The greeting was a top-40 hit. And it wasn’t a fifteen second sample, these voicemail greetings would go on for about a minute and a half. I’m practically listening to an entire song before I hear the beep to leave the message. And there is no name in the greeting to let me know whether I’ve called the correct number–it’s just a song. My question is simple (and I really am sincere when I ask this question): Why?
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We’ve noticed that too Eddy in our SP recruiting.
Hard to imagine folks want to be intentionally annoying. I’m guessing they feel stressed and don’t want more phone messages, emails, snail mail, etc.
Maybe it’s a way to put people off with a 2 minute sonic take that they really like. Could be they want the callers to enjoy themselves but not enough to stick around long enough to leave a message. If so, pretty clever stuff. It works :^)
It’s like when people put you on hold and a song comes up. Instead of being a boring classical song, you can listen to a top 40 hit while you wait for the person to pick up. For Verizon and Sprint (?) services, hit 1 and you’ll be able to skip their entire message.
Nice! Thanks for the heads up
… have you had that as a greeting on your cell?
seriously man.
why?!
=P
ya gotta love NSO.