Sms aren't limited by my availability....you can send them at 4am in the morning so i can ignore them for 2 weeks for no reason. Meanwhile if you call me at 4am I'd still be awake but it's none of your business why and i wouldn't answer them anyway so why bother.
I’m the same way with my mail.
I’m a millennial - I don’t check my mailbox for 6+ weeks at a time.
If I order something, then I know about it and expect it at my door (because it’s fedex, amazon, or ups).
Otherwise, it will have to wait until I happen to remember I have a mailbox.
For example, with bills - I expect you to have my email address and use it, because I supplied it whenever I established xyz account.
Exceptions:
I don’t check my mailbox for 6+ weeks at a time.
That seems dangerously negligent.
Welfare checks have been conducted over less.
When it's too cold out to wanna walk all the way up there, I've gone for 3-4 months at a stretch. All I ever get is garbage anyway, so it's only ever mattered twice, and one of those was an expected package.
No one's ever called me a welfare check :(
I’m in the military lol. The government definitely knows I’m alive by 0600 sharp every morning.
I've had a P.O. box for years because I don't want to disclose my home address when I register domains. Maybe I should check it one of these days...
Ok boomer
Arthur Dent kinda stuff is going to happen to him. Yellow...
I get it, I check mine maybe once a week, but if I go longer than that it’s completely stuffed full. At some point it’s just not nice to the mail carrier that has to try and jam shit in there.
If junk mail didn’t exist wouldn’t be an issue, but there is a lot of verbose junk sent in the mail.
I am almost to the point where I don’t mind normal junk mail. That’s easy to quickly scan, identify as junk, and toss.
What really grinds my gears are when my companies contact me and write something like “Important” on it. This happened recently with my credit card company. I thought maybe I had gone overdue, or had overpaid and this was letting me know my bill the following month would be less (it has happened before).
No - it was letting me know I had good credit and could get a good % on a loan through them if I wanted. Now, that made me mad. Junk mail, from my very own credit card company. B.S.
My bank called me and told me I needed to come it due to something with my account. I asked what it was and they weren’t clear. I asked if they were just going to try and sell me a credit card and they said no. During the week I work banking hours, so they agreed to have me come in on Saturday. So on Saturday, instead of doing what I want, I get dressed and go to the bank. They tried to sell me a credit card and a savings account. Since that happened I found a new bank and have been migrating over. I plan to close the account completely in the coming months. I was a customer for 22 years without any issues, but fuck them for lying to me and disrupting my weekend for a sales pitch.
In the stamp postmark area, if you see "Prepaid Sorted Standard", most of the time it's junk mail like what you describe. Regardless of how "important" it says it is.
I'm like this with email. I do a quick visual scan about once per week... or fortnight... because it's almost all SPAM, and no matter how many blocks and filters I create, it does little to hold back the tide of trash.
Everyone who matters knows the only way to reach me reliably is via text message.
I nearly missed a jury duty notice because of this habit. I only check if I know money or a specific bill is coming.
Because sms respects my time. I can check it when I can I do not need to stop everything I am doing for it. A call doesn't, I have to stop everything to pick it up.
The professional thing to say here is "spam prevention".
As an older millennial I use the phone just fine, thank you very much.
It's Facebook and other random proprietary crap being used for IRL communications (especially important stuff like community associations, etc.) that I can't deal with.
I refuse to use Facebook and any time I hear someone talking about using it I just think of how much better off everyone would be without it. I haven't used it in probably 5 years but I could only imagine it has got worse.
I make an exception for WhatsApp because I (and literally everyone in our country) uses this instead of SMS. I never use SMS.
“No.”
Why would they even ask that lmao. "Eat my entire ass" that's why, fuck you.
Why should I feel obligated to be available for a phone call?
Annoyance issue.
--late Boomer
You've got a point. A whole lot of boomers are annoyance issues leading us millennials to not answer our phones
I wouldn't mind people calling me if I didn't expect 90% of my calls to be scams.
Genx and haven't liked to pick up the phone my whole life
Same. I used the phone before there were other options, but I always hated it. I don't like being able to hear someone but not see them. It gives me anxiety.
“This is what your voice is saying… but what is your face saying right now?!”
How did you make plans with friends before cell phones? You never talked with a boyfriend or girlfriend for hours on a landline?
That doesn't mean they liked talking on the phone.
Most likely I'd make plans face to face. I have spent too many hours on the phone with loved ones, but that's usually planned or expected. I don't like picking up the phone if I don't know who it is, and even then I'd often rather avoid. Just send me a message please instead.
I once signed up for something that required separate home and cell phone numbers. Some shipping service or something. And it wouldn't let me put the same number for both. Like come on, nobody is paying for landlines nowadays. I ended up putting my parents' phone number for the home phone (which they coincidentally just got rid of this week.)
(AreaCode) 867-5309 is your friend in this and for random "Insert your phone number for the rewards program" things.
fun fact: most phone companies do not allow that phone number to be given out due to too many people calling it as a direct result of that song.
I have two landline numbers that came with my internet contract but I don’t have a phone connected to the modem. So whenever your scenario happens to me I just give them one of my real landline numbers. I’ve tried calling myself and you can actually hear it ringing as the caller but no one will ever pick up lol
"My rate for voice services is $0.35 per minute. Ask about by bulk rate for 15, 30, or 60 minute increments when prepaid. Any calls without prepayment will be billed at the per minute rate, net30 terms. Please have a PO# ready when calling."
Antisocial is why
"I can, I just don't want to be"
That looks like one of the UK Government sites.
100%, hours of frustration trying to sort out studen loans means that font + colour + box is incredibly recognisable
I'm actually a big fan of how they've standardised the design language and accessibility requirements across services. This "why" box that a couple of comments are criticising are likely so they can continue to improve accessibility.
"because I don't want it."
Shit I ignore texts for days too. 😒
Am I the only millennial that doesn't mind phone calls? Don't get me wrong, I very much prefer an SMS or email if it will suffice but phone calls tend to be quicker if you need something taken care of immediately.
Phone calls are for immediate concerns that's why you need to answer your phone. No one will call you unless it's important
I would love to get contacted by telephone. I hate SMS.
UK visa website?
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