Why are men so useless on the phone?

Solarball10 · 10-12-2008 04:09PM #1

Just had a call from a girl on behalf of her boyfriend wanting to know if there were any jobs going where I work.

Have had a few of these actually - women ringing "on behalf" of their son/brother/boyfriend.

Why can't men talk themselves?
Is the telephone a scary thing to them?

Tell you what, no "man" who got his girlfriend to ring up enquiring about a job on his behalf would be hired by me!

anonymous_joe · 10-12-2008 04:10PM

My sister cannot and will not speak to strangers on the phone.

I think a lot of lads aren't arsed looking for jobs so their other half or mum or whoever does it for them.

rubadub · 10-12-2008 04:11PM

They don't want the job, the missus or mother wants them out of the house though. & women like talking more than men anyway.

Orange69 · 10-12-2008 04:12PM

way to generalize :rolleyes:

Frisbee · 10-12-2008 04:12PM

My mate's like this.
If we're going anywhere that you have to book like booking a tee time or asking have they a product in he refuses to ring.
He won't talk to strangers on the phone.
But when your on the phone to him he won't shut up. The amount of times you get stuck in like a half hour call with him when he rang you to ask what time you were going out or something...

Prof.Badass · 10-12-2008 04:13PM

maybe they're too busy doing yer ma to call themselves...

Danbo! · 10-12-2008 04:15PM

Do women think that putting asterisks on each end of the title of a shit thread will generate more interest in said thread?

Snowie · 10-12-2008 04:15PM

My mates gf finds him his jobs he does nothing ....

i dont mind talkin on the phone.....

homerun_homer · 10-12-2008 04:15PM

There's a woman in my work that could have called you because from the sound of her conversations on the phone to her bf, he sounds like he can't scratch his @rse without asking for help.
One day she was telling him how he shouldn't ring in sick since he had just got into the new minimum wage job. She was telling him to give it time and then do it. He didn't last long anyway and he's still unemployed.

Did you get your one's name that time, I bet it was her.:D

Dudess · 10-12-2008 04:16PM

OP, going by your logic, I could ask "why do women make gender-based generalisations?"

stovelid · 10-12-2008 04:16PM

Unlike women, we don't have time to develop a phone manner because we use it for basic, informational purposes. As opposed to taking 16 hours to say I'm on the bus; see you tomorrow.

poisonated · 10-12-2008 04:16PM

Ill have you know that i am a guy and i work part time in administration so am on the phone quite a bit...:D but i know what you mean I often get mens wives calling in saying that there husband cant work because they have the flu...I suppose some men are like that but dont you be tarring us all with the same brush:mad::D

rotinaj · 10-12-2008 04:17PM

Its not that men are useless on the phone. We are just lazy. Why make a phone call yourself when you can get a woman to do it for ya.

funk-you · 10-12-2008 04:18PM

*Why are men so useless on the phone?*

Because we can't stare at your chest over the phone.

-Funk

Rob_l · 10-12-2008 04:19PM

ozzyoh wrote: »

Have had a few of these actually - women ringing "on behalf" of their son/brother/boyfriend.

Women always on the phone it is terrible i agree

ozzyoh wrote: »

Why can't men talk themselves?

Women dont like when we do that!

ozzyoh wrote: »

Is the telephone a scary thing to them?

no but the woman attached to end of it usually is, especially when you try and seperate her from it!

Solarball10 · 10-12-2008 04:21PM

poisonated wrote: »

Ill have you know that i am a guy and i work part time in administration so am on the phone quite a bit...:D but i know what you mean I often get mens wives calling in saying that there husband cant work because they have the flu...I suppose some men are like that but dont you be tarring us all with the same brush:mad::D

Lol - OK, I guess that was a bit of a sweeping generalisation I made there - I should have said "why are ALOT of men useless on the phone"

ZygOte · 10-12-2008 04:22PM

sounds like interfering mammy syndrome to me, if i were a trained brain surgeon and out of work she would probably call the local pub to see if i could get a job pulling pints. "a job is a job....."

on the other hand if he is too feckin lazy to try and get a job for himself, what the hell is she doing trying to find him a job, she should be packin her bags and leaving his sorry ass.

p.s no dispect to bar men, you rock! its a bloody hard job.

Solarball10 · 10-12-2008 04:23PM

noblestee wrote: »

Do women think that putting asterisks on each end of the title of a shit thread will generate more interest in said thread?

Not really...I just think it looks prettier.

Donald-Duck · 10-12-2008 04:24PM

ozzyoh wrote: »

Lol - OK, I guess that was a bit of a sweeping generalisation I made there - I should have said "why are ALOT of men useless on the phone"

Then we'd ask why you're hiring people if you don't know that alot isn't a word :eek:

Orange69 · 10-12-2008 04:26PM

ozzyoh wrote: »

Lol - OK, I guess that was a bit of a sweeping generalisation I made there - I should have said "why are ALOT of men useless on the phone"

No you should have said, "Why are a couple of men whose wives called in so useless on the phone? Even thought i have never met said men and have no knowledge of why their wives called..."

Maybe both the guys are mute.. ya i went there!

bush Baby · 10-12-2008 04:26PM

Phones are evil. Not to be used unless absolutely neccessary!

I wonder are the women calling from home - they really should be at work!

jdivision · 10-12-2008 04:27PM

ozzyoh wrote: »

I should have said "why are ALOT of men useless on the phone"

What's alot? Do you mean a lot? or allot?

Solarball10 · 10-12-2008 04:30PM

jdivision wrote: »

What's alot? Do you mean a lot? or allot?

The first one.

Dragan · 10-12-2008 04:33PM

ozzyoh wrote: »

Just had a call from a girl on behalf of her boyfriend wanting to know if there were any jobs going where I work.

Have had a few of these actually - women ringing "on behalf" of their son/brother/boyfriend.

Why can't men talk themselves?
Is the telephone a scary thing to them?

Tell you what, no "man" who got his girlfriend to ring up enquiring about a job on his behalf would be hired by me!

I don't know. Why are women so silly as to do things for lazy men?:pac:

Also, what industry do you work in. I might need a job soon.

Holsten · 10-12-2008 04:34PM

Hahah I'm like this, I hate talking on the phone.

cmcsoft · 10-12-2008 04:38PM

I'd say cos women are simply better at talking and usually the fellas that need their gfs/mothers to do that also depend on them to wash their clothes feed them etc etc.......they're just lazy....can't say all fellas like that

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 10-12-2008 04:40PM

Thats pretty sad, you'd have to be pretty sad to get your mum or girlfriend to ring and ask for a job on your behalf...

What is the person hiring supposed to think? Oh I think I'll give this fella the job as his mum sounds really nice.

Alanstrainor · 10-12-2008 04:56PM

I'd say a lot of the calls are made without the fellas knowing though, i cant imagine anyone actually wanting/needing a job getting the mother or girlfriend to ring for them.
Not a big fan of phones either, much prefer dealing with people face to face,

Prof.Badass · 10-12-2008 05:00PM

Alanstrainor wrote: »

I'd say a lot of the calls are made without the fellas knowing though, i cant imagine anyone actually wanting/needing a job getting the mother or girlfriend to ring for them.

Not a big fan of phones either, much prefer dealing with people face to face,

My mam rang up this place last summer and told them i'd be really interested in working for them (even though i had told her already i wasn't getting a job that summer). so they ring me back a few weeks later and i basically have to tell them i don't actually want to work for them.

grrrrrr :mad:. I think the real question is why do women try and push men into doing things they don't want to.

SpookyDoll · 10-12-2008 05:10PM

I dont think its that they are "useless" -I would more say concise.

I dread certain women friends of mine ringing simply to "chat" -if you want to talk its much easier to do in person.

Its too hard to concentrate on a conversation thats longer than a few minutes (3 or 4) on the phone as your mind wanders and you feel bored and trapped.

Since working in a call centre many years back I view talking on the phone as "work" and something to be avoided at almost all costs.

funk-you · 10-12-2008 05:12PM

vinylmesh wrote: »

grrrrrr :mad:. I think the real question is why do women try and push men into doing things they don't want to.

A lot of them like to have a project and if you're a fella who is near them when they get this idea you're it.

-Funk

*Why are men so useless on the phone?*

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Why are men so useless on the phone?