{"id":1046,"date":"2013-01-04T07:30:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T15:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2013-01-03T21:11:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T05:11:23","slug":"killing-voicemail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/04\/killing-voicemail\/","title":{"rendered":"killing voicemail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author John Scalzi has decided that he is killing his voice mail<\/a>. \u00a0I’m completely on his side in this, and I think that perhaps it’s time to make it official.<\/p>\n

I have three voice mailboxes: my personal cell phone, my office line, and my home line. \u00a0On my personal cell, if the voicemail is left by someone I know, I almost never listen to it. \u00a0 \u00a0I look at the number and decide when I’m going to call them back (or communicate in some other way, usually text or email). \u00a0If it’s not left by someone I know, there’s maybe a 50\/50 chance of me listening to it. \u00a0Maybe.<\/p>\n

On my home line, voicemail is this vast wasteland of nothingness. \u00a0I can’t tell you the last time that I listened to it. \u00a0I check its caller list to see who’s called lately, but that’s it.<\/p>\n

My office voicemail is one that I actively hate. \u00a0It’s a hassle to use. \u00a0I have to remember my PIN, and then navigate an idiotic menu system (“press 1 to listen to your voicemail”, “press 1 to listen to your messages” why?!), and then listen to the message. \u00a0If I miss the important information in the message (like a telephone number), I have to listen to the whole bloody message again. \u00a0And, possibly, again. \u00a0And then I can delete it. \u00a0Once I’ve listened to and deleted all of my messages, my voicemail starts playing me my deleted messages automatically. \u00a0I have utterly no idea why.<\/p>\n

I think it’s time to officially put this policy into play. \u00a0This means figuring out how to record a message on my work voicemail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author John Scalzi has decided that he is killing his voice mail. \u00a0I’m completely on his side in this, and I think that perhaps it’s time to make it official. I have three voice mailboxes: my personal cell phone, my office line, and my home line. \u00a0On my personal cell, if the voicemail is left … Continue reading killing voicemail<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nadyne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}