Changing Voicemail Greetings

Submitted by Anonymous on December 12, 2008 - 5:53am.

Last post we talked about how companies don’t update the message on their Interactive Voice Response systems (IVRs)? Today we will discuss the opposite extreme. There are those that change their voicemail message every day, regardless of whether there is a change. For more, click here.

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Weather Report

By Robinson Roe on December 18, 2008 - 12:00pm

Nick, Read the comments in the links and they tell me that I must be anal retentive because I change my greeting everyday and give the weather report for whatever city that I am in for that day, usually my home town. It makes people realise that I am "present". Some just think I am an idiot. Oh well. cheers, Rob

Messengers and other stuff

By Colin Scowen on December 18, 2008 - 1:51pm

Our company uses microsoft's office communicator, which I always look at first, before calling someone because (and there's always a proviso, they have to be logged in to the system) it shows me their free busy info. Also, if they are out of office, then that OOO message gets shown as well. Obviously this doesn't work with customers, but, across different offices, it works well for me. I tend, personally, to change my auto response when I am in or out of the office. That being said, I also do not consider it particularly anal if folks do change their message every day. It is much more irritating to hear a month old 'I will be out of the office until such and such a date' message. Regards, Colin. As the great philosopher K said. 1500 years ago, everybody knew that the earth was the centre of the universe. 500 years ago, everybody knew the world was flat. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.