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Why Gen Z & Millennials are hung up on answering the phone (www.bbc.com)
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[–] 77 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

A photograph of the hand puppet "Kermit the frog" inside an office with a smart phone. There is text above the photograph. Kermit is implied to be sitting on a computer chair, casually resting his legs up as if leaning them on a desk. Kermit is holding the phone and looking at it's screen. The text above reads, "me waiting for my phone to stop ringing as I don't use it for that".

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    This is part of the problem for me. I can't dismiss the popup unless I hang up, and I don't want to do that in case my number gets marked as "active".

    So I sit there and wait till I can use it again.

    Also I appreciate the detailed alt text :)

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This is soo me! Declining the call would pull more attention. I play dead.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Let it ring. Robocall centers only work when they maximize volume, the more time they spend not getting an answer the more money they're not making. If you wanna get real saucy, wait as long as you can, accept the call, say nothing or mute your mic. They wont spend more than 5-10 seconds before they hang up on you though because they know it too.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Letting it ring has no impact. They have autodiallers that call, and when someone picks up, only then is that call assigned to someone in the call centre.

    You can often tell this because there is a marked delay in the response to your initial "Hello?". Long enough that you can reliably just hang up if you don't hear a response in two seconds.

    If it's a real person who actually wants to call you and they you call again straight away, you can just shrug off your hang-up as a network issue.

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