I am like that at night. All day in the phone I don't want to chat when i get home. And I hate stupid questions.

You hate stupid questions but I also hate repeat questions even more. That makes the conversation last longer than it needs to be. I feel this way about repeat questions....I have already answered the question and I will not answer any other way... so STOP asking!

Sometimes I talked to the telephone.

Again, dang! What do you want!

And then I still never pick it up. I wait for an hour or so before I check for messages. My boss asked me about that twice. He said, “why is it that when I call you when I know that you’re home, you always call me back exactly a half hour or 1 hour after I leave the message? Like it’s mandatory not to return messages for up to an hour”

I made up something of course and I don't care if he believes me or not.

Don't call my house because you're lonely. If you have a problem and want to express it too me then I will listen to you as a friend all night long and will NOT type one thing.

But if you don't really need me then forget it.

repeat question eventually get the response: I have answered that X amount of times, I will not answer it again.

If you call me at the office I will try to answer your call in anywhere from immediate to an hour. If you call my home - probably a lot longer.

After a certain hour if you call it better be for blood or bail. anything else will get you chewed out or hung up on.

"Blood or bail" huh

I'm getting ready to leave out for an hour and I bet at least 2 more people will call here because they don't have anyone else to talk too. Or it will be someone wanting me to help them write their script.

And I don't help write on any script that I feel is already crap and so matter what words I write, it will NOT help that dreadful thing out at all.

Maybe I should stop being nice by saying that "I have other projects to complete first" and just say a flat out NO WAY!

Just say NO! you will feel better.
and its nicer then saying : really i don't want to work on your piece of sh*t script that sucks big time.

I’ve been through flat out saying NO before. Some people can take it pretty well but others act like spoiled teenagers with the huffing and puffing.

I really dislike it when people won’t let things go. If I argue with you or just tell you that I am in disagreement with you over something, then in the end we should just agree to disagree and move on to the next thing.

Boy is that annoying being around 35+ year old teenagers.

Samantha is right- PinkNC - and your boss maybe can be taught abt TIME MGMT - it is true and much better to do all in one - and TO CHOSE when to call however - you are sooooooooooooo right -i prefer chatting much more - and it is better to see it emerging on screen Thank you AND YOU ARE OK - so leave the jerk to others

Thanks *Iveenia* I just didn't want to seem rude but come on. My boss, and I have more than one, do not get on my nerves it's the other people who call.

Lately it seems that all the lonely people want to call me. All the topics bore the hell out of me.

Now when I'm supposed to be working Sugar sometimes takes me away from that. I get hooked on these news articles. Today I was interested in reading about that poor teenager that got beat badly on his bus and the young woman that was murdered at Yale.

Now being that I can't sleep like most people do then wasting a few hours a day on Sugar is fine with me work wise. I've got plenty of time for work but I don't want my head leaned to the side on my shoulder for an hour here and there as I listen to yap yap yap

i agree - totally - cause and that is sad - most people blab your day off and just empty you

No, Pink, I completely understand where your coming from.

***In business an e-mail is best for ME. One can just get to the point, get your answer, done. On the phone, people feel the need to start with the "Sooooo how's your day going".... and then trying to be polite you end up on the phone for a long time rather than getting back to business. No, you aren't being a jerk at all. I think a lot of people feel the same way.

****And then there are the friends who just LOVE to be on the phone for hours - not calling with anything important - and you just talked to them the other day... It always starts out with "Hi" "Soooooooooo, how's everything going....." And, then it is up to YOU to have to carry a conversation that you didn't start. When I'm on the phone, I want there to be a point to the call, discuss it, and then done pleasantly. Unless the friend is having a personal problem and then you need to be there for them to listen..... And, then it is usally when you were in the middle of cooking dinner or on your way out the door....

Oh I've been there. I would be starving and just as I was about to leave to pick up lunch or dinner, here comes the call. If I'm about to cook then I have to lean my head to the side while holding the phone on my shoulder, and using both hands to cook as I talk. I really doing that but that is always when someone with a problem calls.

And I know about the girlfriend talkers too. I remember back in the day I had a girlfriend that worked at the Bank of America corporate building in HP.

She would call me from her desk from her cell phone, while dealing with people walking into her office, while doing figures and answering her desk phone. She would call for nothing during the day.

And she would always catch me when I was driving. Because of her I went to store and bought one of those little gadgets that would allow me to listen to her in my car, while the phone was in the cradle.

I honestly think some people just like talking on their cell phone because it makes them look important...not. And don't even get me started on those bluetooths in everybody's ear these day. That is so stupid to have attached to your ear when you're not even talking to anyone.

I'm like this a lot... Especially with a few of my friends who I never call and they always seem to call me. I don't call them on purpose: there is nothing I need from them if I'm in a jam, and I hate talking about things that don't even matter!

I also never pick up the phone when a lot of people call because I know that they just want to 'chat.' I also wait to see if they leave a voicemail or text me after. If they don't, I leave it at that and wait for the next contact...in three days.

Right on laura....I say if they left no message then don't worry about it even more. If you don't leave me a message I'm not hitting *69 and calling you back.

Heck yeah. It's just a time saver sort of thing...not a jerk thing.

I never even have my phone off message machine I rarely take my cell calls either. People have to leave a voice mail Chit chat on the phone? Ugh.

I have two cell phones (1 for work) and I only like answering the work phone and my home phone, because not many people have my home phone number. So therefore my personal cell phone can ring off the hook some days. And of course half the people are those that I don't want to speak to at all but I have too.

I don't mind talkative people but when I say I have to go then I want people to be respectful and hang up with me so that I can go handle other things. Of course that rarely happens

^^I hate that too. It seems as though I should quit saying "I reallllly have to go!" because that's apparently an invite to keep talking...

that's why i use my phone for what i'm doing now, ( comments ). after " hello " i'm just a listener anyway.