I HATE WRITING.
Aw.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I HATE WRITING.
Aw.
Consume chocolate?
Ok, back me up on this.
When you call someone's office, is the first thing you say, "To whom am I speaking?" Or do you actually say, "Hello, this is ______ from ______, and this is my issue." ?
Isn't just asking "Who is this" rude? Cause my first response was just almost, "You called me. Who the fuck is THIS?"
It's totally rude. I do always answer the phone by saying my name though, and it irks me when people don't.
When you call someone's office, is the first thing you say, "To whom am I speaking?" Or do you actually say, "Hello, this is ______ from ______, and this is my issue." ?
Depends on how long I've spend trying to get person X on the phone.
This was a call to the reception desk. First call.
generally I state my name and then who or what I am looking for
if I answer the phone as a business, I ID myself. If I answer my private phone (s) all you get is hello, until I know who i am talking to
re: coffee. I use one of these [link] every day. I drink out of it on the drive to work. Not all purist, since I keep drinking off the grounds, but it works for me and is very convenient. Also, unbreakable.
But then I can just rinse the grounds down the garbage disposal.
Yeah, I hate "To whom am I speaking?" But not nearly as much as I hated, in the days of pagers, "Who called me?" Dude. Not me -- I'm the front desk of a company. Shit.
When I receive mystery 800 numbers on my answering machine I probably sound like that when I call. Your office giving away weekends in Las Vegas for the first lucky person to call?