Don't Misuse the Voicemail Greeting

Last night at work, I had to attempt to call a customer on his phone to follow up with his account. The phone did not ring and went straight to his voicemail greeting.

While most people use voicemail as a purgatory of sorts for people they really don't want to talk to, some use it for really stupid purposes. You have those who think the Sarah Conner in the orignal Terminator film left a fine message and subsequently piss you off when you hear:

Hello? Hello?!? Fooled you! You're talking to a machine.

You have others who decide spending $1 per month on those ringing tones is too much and use the voicemail greeting for a piss-poor quality recording of the new Fall Out Boy song.

Bringing things back to a point, my customer last night had a voicemail greeting consisting of only the following:

If you a bill collector, stop calling. I ain't got it.

So, not only does this tell anyone else who calls that you are probably a deadbeat, it tells these debt collectors of your unwillingness to pay.

I doubt though that will stop the deluge of calls from Entertainment Weekly and Verizon about those delinquent accounts.

Paying them certainly would though.