I purposely make my voice mail message as long as the time limit allows to waste the time of people looking to waste my time. Hope they like listening to screamy music. - eviltoast
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    4 days ago

    No human has ever used it

    TIL I’m not human. I wonder what path life has taken you that you’ve never been thankful for a voicemail. Granted, I’m annoyed by them more often, but I’ve definitely had a few good voicemails

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            4 days ago

            This has always been a strange thing for me. All of my peers starting getting spam calls around middle/high school, but I never did. To this day, I hardly get any spam calls. And when I say hardly, I mean like… I genuinely think the total number of spam calls I’ve gotten since turning 18 is less than 50 at most.

            So, I leave my voicemail on. Because I know that damn near every time I get a voicemail, I know why I got it. I know that person/company and they’re calling me because I asked them to

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      4 days ago

      I’ve never used voicemail. It’s mostly an American thing that I’m too European to comprehend.

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        3 days ago

        I don’t use it often, I will admit. But as a night shift worker, it has definitely saved me a lot of struggle.

        This last month I’ve gotten quite a bit of use out of voicemails, between apartment hunting and some big purchases for my workplace