How good are you at talking on the phone

Godot.

Put me face to face, text or e-mail a person and I am quite articulate and free-flowing :cool:

Put me in a phone conversation and I just can't think of much to say, my mind goes completely blank. I even write out what I have to say beforehand when the conversation is formal

buyer95

Godot. wrote: »

Put me face to face, text or e-mail a person and I am quite articulate and free-flowing :cool:

Put me in a phone conversation and I just can't think of much to say, my mind goes completely blank. I even write out what I have to say beforehand when the conversation is formal

:pac:

Neadine

Godot. wrote: »

Put me face to face, text or e-mail a person and I am quite articulate and free-flowing :cool:

Put me in a phone conversation and I just can't think of much to say, my mind goes completely blank. I even write out what I have to say beforehand when the conversation is formal

Who are you talking to?

Kylo Ren

Maybe, as a child, you walked in on your father who was naked, wearing only high heels, spanking himself while talking dirty to a man on the phone.

Just a theory.

toastedpickles

Most of my phonecalls are either really long and pointless, or short and to the point, talking to other people though? nah don't do that in person much

Ihatecuddles-old

I'm the same. Rarely answer my phone...

orestes

"Hello? ....... yep.......yep.........ok............cool.............ok..........bye."

hju6

Just say what you have to say, confirm nothing then hang up, open bottle and drink,

blatantrereg

I had to do that when I was a teenager [write out what I had to say. I even had alternative things written down for different responses]. I was often awkward speaking in person too though. Written communication was fine. It would have suited me if email and text messaging became popular about five years earlier really. I was one of the last people I knew to get a mobile because of my dislike of phone conversation.

These days I'm comfortable speaking to friends and family on the phone. With everyone else I'm good at faking being a normal person, though I find it tiring and usually dislike it. The last thing I learned was to remember that nodding my head doesn't translate well over the wire.

ballsymchugh

orestes wrote: »

"Hello? ....... yep.......yep.........ok............cool.............ok..........bye."

vodafone trying to get you to change plan again?!

Ihatecuddles-old

orestes wrote: »

"Hello? ....... yep.......yep.........ok............cool.............ok..........bye."

More like 'hello? ...yeah...ok....bye bye...bye bye bye'

Ruu

Hello 0498512345? I trail off with the byes until it is down to a whisper.

I'm old school.

Lima Golf

I'm grand if there is someone on the other end of the phone but if they don't answer and I have to leave a voicemail I usually say something stupid or awkward sounding

toastedpickles

ballsymchugh wrote: »

vodafone trying to get you to change plan again?!

I love messing with my phone operator, they tried to get me to basically pay more for what I was already using, €20 free any network texts, 500mb internet, the only free bit they were adding was the internet, which already came out of the 20, leaving me 15 quid for calls, they ring up being all oh if you get a 25 top up you'l have everything for free, my argument was I already have all that and you're just making me spend more on something i already have, poor girl couldn't answer me, so i was just like, well I guess this is goodbye......-hangs up-

Cody Pomeray

Ruubot2 wrote: »

Hello 0498512345? I trail off with the byes until it is down to a whisper.

I'm old school.

Do you do the "phone voice"?

Possibly more of an aged 50+ woman phenomenon. The more nasal the better.

Ihatecuddles-old

Cody Pomeray wrote: »

Do you do the "phone voice"?

Possibly more of an aged 50+ woman phenomenon. The more nasal the better.

I have a phone voice. My friends always slag me over it.

dodderangler

Only realised when I'm on phone the last 10 seconds of the call is like this
Yeah , alri , no worries , alri talk t ya later , ok , bye , bye , bye

Jhcx

Im with ya op. calls are just horrible. Cant even ring at work . "i keep forgetting the numbers" i'll just have to keep walking over to them.

orestes

ballsymchugh wrote: »

vodafone trying to get you to change plan again?!

It's usually work or family letting me know something needs to be done or someone has died or something, not much small talk to be had.

Ruubot2 wrote: »

Hello 0498512345? I trail off with the byes until it is down to a whisper.

I'm old school.

Old school is having to pick up the second phone and yelling "I'VE GOT IT!" at the top of your lungs so that you can have a phone call in privacy.

Ah the joys of teenage phonecalls in the days before mobiles. Frigging youngsters don't know how good they have it :pac:

fasttalkerchat

orestes wrote: »

"Hello? ....... yep.......yep.........ok............cool.............ok..........bye."

bye bye bye bye g'luck bye.

MadsL

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

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Username relevant

Real Life

Im terrible on the phone. Im known for it now because im so awkward.
Basically when im talking to someone i never know when to come in and say something so i always start talking over them and then have to say sorry, go on.
Also i cant seem to listen to what the other person is saying because im trying to think about what il say and then i just dont know whats happening.

dartup

I could talk the knickers off a nun

Lando Griffin

My OH is a great chatterbox on the phone.
Even when she gets through to a message minder its a 5 minute conservation.

blatantrereg

Lando Griffin wrote: »

My OH is a great chatterbox on the phone.
Even when she gets through to a message minder its a 5 minute conservation.

Message minders cut out after one or two minutes usually.
You are either exaggerating or your OH continues talking for some time after the line is dead.

krudler

Do it for a living so am grand, hate talking on the phone outside work though, texts and facebook for me. Get sick of hearing my own voice after 8 hrs so last thing I want to be doing is ringing people

oldyouth

I'm very good at getting stuff done over the phone, given that it was part of my job for many years. However, I'm not really good at using it for social reasons or chat.

poisonated

I have to be in order to be good at my job.

miss_flamingo

I'm a good listener and chatter, no exception on the phone. Got told that I always have a bit of a flirty thing going on tho which can be a bit odd at times :pac:

Grayson

I worked in a call centre for a huge multinational. I had the best stats in the world in the company. So I know I'm good on a phone.

Unfortunately it means that I've found something I'm really good at and it's working in a call centre. It couldn't be painting, or economics or cooking. It's working in a fecking call centre.

miss_flamingo

Grayson wrote: »

I worked in a call centre for a huge multinational. I had the best stats in the world in the company. So I know I'm good on a phone.

Unfortunately it means that I've found something I'm really good at and it's working in a call centre. It couldn't be painting, or economics or cooking. It's working in a fecking call centre.

Could have been worse, if you were good at painting you'd might just produce money after you're dead, so the call centre doesn't seem so bad eh :rolleyes:

bnt

I'm OK at talking on the phone. Listening ... not so good. My mind tends to have better things to do.

Alessandra

I'm absolutely awful with phone conversations (apart from speaking to my family). I'm really awkward and can't wait to hang up. I particularly hate initiating calls though and prefer for people to ring me. It has lead people to believe I don't care etc. Can't help it that I prefer texting or emailing to phoning.

JupiterKid

I prefer phone calls to be short and to the point - I'd rather have a long yarn with someone face to face rather than over the phone.

When I'm feeling very anxious I tend to avoid answering the phone or calling anyone.

Mysteriouschic

I hate speaking on the phone unless I'm really comfortable with the person and don't always want to talk on the phone anyway. I always give really one worded answers or don't say too much anyway and it's only really family that rings me.
I'm much better texting or emails or instant messaging etc..
AlthoughtI don't really like texting people all the time either I just rather face to face contact really.

The Caped Commando

I was in the FCA for a year and learned radio voice procedure. Since then I've had no problem articulating myself on the phone. Maybe you could try that?

TheMilkyPirate

The Caped Commando wrote: »

I was in the FCA for a year and learned radio voice procedure. Since then I've had no problem articulating myself on the phone. Maybe you could try that?

Yeah let's join the army for a year so we can learn to talk on the phone.

The Caped Commando

baraca wrote: »

Yeah let's join the army for a year so we can learn to talk on the phone.

Yes, well, I meant it in general. It's benefited me in many ways in my current volunteerism / activism! No need to be rude.

Senna

I prefer talking on the phone, even in work, someone will email this huge block of text and rather than me writing another long reply, I'll just phone them. The email could take me 10 minutes to write, the call instead will be 1-2 minutes and at the end of it at-least I'll know if they have understood everything or not.
The amount of back and forth emails that could be covered in one call is astounding.
Dont get me wrong, I love email, its how I deal with a huge amount of work. But some people rely on email too much, they're almost afraid of a conversation and when it something "very" important, I just don't see email as a viable medium.