[quote]Airtruth wrote:
How do you do the “Just saying Hi” phone call, and how do you get off the phone. I would like to limit my calls to 5 maybe 10 minutes, but when I say I have to go people act like I’m brushing them off.
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That one is easy. I simply thank them for their time or tell them that I have enjoyed talking to them and I tell them that I will let them get back to whatever they were doing. Usually something like: “It has been nice jawing with you. I will let you get back to the wife and kids”.
Texting is a passive aggressive way to communicate.
[quote]VanderLaan wrote:
Airtruth wrote:
How do you do the “Just saying Hi” phone call, and how do you get off the phone. I would like to limit my calls to 5 maybe 10 minutes, but when I say I have to go people act like I’m brushing them off.
That one is easy. I simply thank them for their time or tell them that I have enjoyed talking to them and I tell them that I will let them get back to whatever they were doing. Usually something like: “It has been nice jawing with you. I will let you get back to the wife and kids”.
Texting is a passive aggressive way to communicate. [/quote]
I like texting, especially if I receive the text with my phone deeeeeeep in my pocketand my phone is on VIBRATE and even better if it is an obscene message…
Anyways, to sum shit up, I mad the phone call I needed to make after a 20 minute self pep talk. She didn’t answer, but wound up calling me back 30 seconds later. She was at work. We chatted for about a minute. I felt great. Realized I was getting worked up over nothing and will not be having this issue again. (At least not to the same degree)[/quote]
So you won’t need anymore advice about pee buckets ?
[quote]sen say wrote:
austin_bicep wrote:
My post was deleted.
Anyways, to sum shit up, I mad the phone call I needed to make after a 20 minute self pep talk. She didn’t answer, but wound up calling me back 30 seconds later. She was at work. We chatted for about a minute. I felt great. Realized I was getting worked up over nothing and will not be having this issue again. (At least not to the same degree)
So you won’t need anymore advice about pee buckets ?[/quote]
I did get a job where I made a lot of calls. Worked for a year getting/making a fair amount of calls everyday. It never did get better. I still had to psyche myself up and plan carefully what I had to say before calling. And to this day, I still avoid calling strangers at all costs. If I have to ask a question to someone at a store, I will just drive there.
The good thing is, most people in offices are really fast at answering their email. A lot of the time, you will get a faster answer through email than trying to leave a message. Probably because they hate talking on the phone too.