Leaving a voicemail for someone

[Playing On The Grit]

Why is it when you leave a voicemail, especially if it's business related and should be concise and professional, the carefully thought out sentences in your head come out as incomprehensible waffle??

I just left a message for someone and the only reason he will ever call me back is to laugh hysterically at my pathetic gibberish!!!

 

[desprateseagull]

best to just leave name, number, who you are calling for, time/date, and if time allows, bried reason for calling.

 

[Nibble]

I once left a message for a prospective job and for some inexplicable reason I said "love you" before I hung up.

 

[Box of Frogs]

I once left a message for a prospective job and for some inexplicable reason I said "love you" before I hung up.

Did you get the job?!?!

 

[Nibble]

Did you get the job?!?!

Got an audition. Didn't get the part.

 

[bright1064]

Got an audition. Didn't get the part.

Casting Couch?

 

[jonny.rainbow]

best to just leave name, number, who you are calling for, time/date, and if time allows, bried reason for calling.

Never understood why people leave you a Voice message and start by saying the date and time, when all home answer machines and mobiles tell you this anyway.

 

[Easy 10]

I always spack up my own voicemail introduction messages. It invariably takes me 3 or 4 goes before I can do it without stuttering or stumbling over such tongue-twisters like "I'm currently on the phone or away from my desk", without sounding like I'm chewing on a marshmellow.

 

[Playing On The Grit]

I always spack up my own voicemail introduction messages. It invariably takes me 3 or 4 goes before I can do it without stuttering or stumbling over such tongue-twisters like "I'm currently on the phone or away from my desk", without sounding like I'm chewing on a marshmellow.

I ring businesses as part of my job and you'd think some people would try and get it right...or maybe they just record it and don't listen back. One guy who's voicemail I get a lot says "I'm away from the desk at my moment" and I always chuckle as he is oblivious to the key words being the wrong way round.

Another chap has it perfectly though...In a very suave way he just says "Hi, this is Guy. You know the drill!".

 

[Garage_Doors]

Never understood why people leave you a Voice message and start by saying the date and time, when all home answer machines and mobiles tell you this anyway.

mine don't.

 

[Norman Potting]

A friend of mines favourite trick was to ring up a voicemail, make some incomprehensible interference type noises and finish with "....So thats why you must call me immediately" and ring off.

 

[NMH]

I once left a message for a prospective job and for some inexplicable reason I said "love you" before I hung up.

So..... you DO say that to everyone

 

[NMH]

I ring businesses as part of my job and you'd think some people would try and get it right...or maybe they just record it and don't listen back. One guy who's voicemail I get a lot says "I'm away from the desk at my moment" and I always chuckle as he is oblivious to the key words being the wrong way round.

Another chap has it perfectly though...In a very suave way he just says "Hi, this is Guy. You know the drill!".

That's why I NEVER call Guy.