Please annoy me after the beep
Tons of people have voicemail messages that begin with, “Hi, you’ve reached ____.”
Actually, I haven’t. I tried to reach you, but I didn’t actually reach you. Instead, I’m stuck talking to a pre-recorded message of you, which is most definitely not the same thing as reaching you. The message should be something like this instead:
“Hi, you tried to reach ___, but it didn’t happen. Instead, you’re left talking to a machine. Actually, you’re not even doing that yet. You’re just listening to a machine until this message ends. And then you still wouldn’t have reached me since you’ll just be leaving a message that might get to me in time, or it might not. Good luck with that.”
In other news, one of my biggest pet peeves is voicemail.
