• bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    19 days ago

    If that ever happened to me, I would take my shirt off and hold my phone at arm’s length.

    If I have to be uncomfortable, they have to be uncomfortable too.

  • smiletolerantly@awful.systemsEnglish
    83·
    20 days ago

    I’m really glad my first (part time) job as a fresh-out-of-highschool 17 year old required me to call about 5-6 companies/people per workday. A good number of whom where existing business relations, so not a whole lot of room to fuck up.

    First week was really anxiety-inducing, because I HATED making phone calls.

    After that, no issue. Today, I’d 1000% rather call a doctor’s office, restaurant, plumber,… Than write an email. Online forms are fine, but phone calls are just better. You can get the back and forth often needed for planning done in like 5 seconds.

    • tetris11@feddit.uk
      English
      4·
      19 days ago

      I had that up until my thirties, I just could not handle the intensity of those awkward silences or miscommunications and if I had to have a phone call, would actively race my mind desperately searching for a way to fluidly fill them.

      Now: “yeah whatdyou want? alright bye. Yeah, yeah he did do that. Yeah, bye. Huh? Oh his birthday? yeah.” *click*

      • smiletolerantly@awful.systemsEnglish
        3·
        19 days ago

        Interesting, that sounds more related to personal phone calls?

        I was more thinking of the “single-purpose” kind of call, where you can communicate very clearly about your intetions

    • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
      4·
      19 days ago

      Same with mailto links when an app wants you to rate something and it opens up a draft email.

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      271·
      20 days ago

      They’ve actually fixed that on iOS. I haven’t tried with Mac OS but it probably actually prompts you to dial now. That said whoever thought it was a good idea to dial immediately should be burned at the stake.

      • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        12·
        20 days ago

        Next they might consider just a short guardrail to avoid Siri calling someone you haven’t contacted in ten years when it misunderstands you after you ask it to play a song.

    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
      17·
      20 days ago

      If it can’t be done with a simple web form that lets me pick an available time slot then I’ll make a reservation somewhere else.

    • marcos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      20 days ago

      You click a tel:// link and it calls the restaurant. Or you select the number and ask the phone to call it.

      AFAIK, the exact same way iOS does it. Just without using Apple services (nor Google services on this case).

      • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        20 days ago

        It usually populates the phone number into the dialler, but doesn’t call them immediately.

        From what OOP’s tweet sounds like, you hit a link, and it begins dialling out immediately.

    • h4x0r@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      20·
      20 days ago

      Easy, google uses all of your personal information to manipulate you into going at a time of their choosing based on who pays them the most in ad dollars.