Phone Etiquette
Posted by John on July 18th, 2006
For some reason we often received wrong calls at home. I don’t know if it’s the phone lines, or the phone itself, or it’s just people can’t use the phone. All I know is that periodically we get wrong calls, and all from different people. So it’s not a case of someone who used to have our number.
Normally this wouldn’t be too annoying, however the way people deal with dialling the wrong number is highly annoying. Here’s a typical dialogue:
Receiver: Hello?
Caller: (angrily) Who are you?
Receiver: (even more angrily and loudly) Who are YOU?!?! You called me!! (hangs up)
It’s as if they can’t understand that they called the wrong number, that THEY made a mistake, not the poor person who answered the phone.
July 20th, 2006 at 1:46 am
I get wrong calls all the time too, landlines and cell. And after you tell them they got the wrong number, they continue to pry and ask if you are “xyz” and if your number is “*****”.
Chinese people like to yell on phones, if you’ve ever paid attention to the difference between chinese/shanghainese talking on the phone vs say westerners, or even taiwanese sound much more polite on phones.
July 20th, 2006 at 4:03 am
I wouldn’t limit their yelling to phone only…