“Hi Angry, its Rachel at the office, I’ve been trying to reach you all morning”

“My phone was off as I was in a meeting, why didn’t you leave a message.”

“Oh I didn’t feel like it.”

This happens a lot. For some reason a number of the people I work with have an aversion to leaving voicemail messages. This is a ridiculous aversion to have and is much like being scared of curtains. It makes no sense whatsoever. It also means that from time to time I won’t get a potentially important message. This pisses me off.

So, I have taken to putting my phone on silent whilst in important meetings so that I don’t miss these messages. The downside is that someone ringing me may feel ignored, as to them it will appear that my phone is ringing as normal, the upside being I can see every number that has tried to reach me whilst I’ve been incommunicado.

Yesterday I had 4 missed calls from the office.

“Hi, it’s Angry here, I’ve had 4 missed calls from the office, you don’t know if anyone is trying to reach me do you?”

“No, sorry. I can ask around if you’d like?”

“No, I have my suspicions, can you put me through to Rachel?”

“Sure, just a sec”

Ring Ring

“Hello Rachel fuckwit speaking.”

“Hi Rachel, Angry here. Have you been trying to reach me?”

“Oh, yes. I need to talk to you about tomorrows meeting.”

“Then why not leave a message to that effect? I am not a fucking psychic. If you have a message for me, then leave the fucking message!  It takes considerably longer to try and reach me four times than to leave one message, you do realise that don’t you?”

I called time on our little conversation when it sounded like she started to cry.

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