This is my follow up
Posted on August 6, 2009
Filed Under Daily, Life in L.A., Wow | 15 Comments
I e-mail resume, company calls me, I call them back to follow up on last week’s conversation:
*Phone rings, and voice mail picks up*
Crap, I have to leave a message.
“Hi Kathy, this is Sabrina Enayatulla calling in regarding…”
In regarding? Good start.
#
To send this message, press pound, or hang up.
To mark this message urgent, press 1.
To mark this message private, press 2.
To listen to your message, press 3.
To re-record your message, press 4.
4.
Please record your message at the tone. BEEP.
“Hi Kathy, this is Sabrina Enayatulla calling regarding the umm…”
Crap.
#
To send this message, press pound or hang up.
To mark this message urgent, press 1.
To mark this message private, press 2.
4.
Please record your message at the tone. BEEP.
“Hi Kathy, this is Sabrina Enayatulla…”
*Muslim call to prayer clock goes off in the background*
COME ON!
#
To send this message, press pound or hang up.
To mark this message urgent, press 1.
4.
Please record your message at the tone. BEEP.
Ahh, the beep came too quick.
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4.
Please record your message at the tone. BEEP.
“Hi Kathy, this is Sabrina Enayatulla calling regarding the communications position we spoke about last Tuesday. I was calling to see what the status of my application was, and I was hoping we could set up a time for an interview sometime this week. If you could give me a call at my new local number it’s…”
No! You don’t even have an answering machine set up. What if she calls and then you won’t even know. Don’t confuse her. She has your cell phone number, just stick with that.
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4.
Please record your message at the tone. BEEP.
“Hi Kathy, it’s Sabrina Enayatulla calling regarding the communications position we spoke about last Tuesday. Today is Monday, Aug. 3, and it’s a little after 1 p.m., oh, now it’s 1:02 p.m. (laughs)…”
Oh my God, you are SO LAME.
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4.
“Hi Katie…”
Oh Lord.
To send this message, press pound or hang up.
To mark this message urgent, press 1.
To mark this message private, press 2.
To listen to your message, press 3.
To re-record your message, press 4.
To delete this message, press 5.
5.
Comments
15 Responses to “This is my follow up”
Bahhhahaha..
This is why I LOVE you.
I could hear your giggles in my head after the 1:02 part, which in turn made me giggle (out loud…at my desk..at work..)
Seriously, I wish you the best of luck.
HAHAHA! The perils of leaving a message on the answering machine. At least it lets you rerecord, I’ve left many a lame message.
Good luck!
LOL!!
you are unbelievable!
break a leg!
Oh my gosh! I HATE leaving voicemail messages! It’s seriously one of the most nerve-wrecking things in life for me.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
I’m not laughin at you… I’m laughin with you… right?
hahaha i love this post! answering machines are terrible, like hooow am i supposed to be myself and sound normal in just a few seconds
LOL i hate leaving messages too!
LOOOOOL!!
omg … that’s so true! you cracked me up!!
i absolutely hate hate leaving voicemail, but strangely i love receiving them!
inshallah you get that interview soon
LOL!!! I absolutely hate leaving voice messages. I never say the right thing. At least you got to re-record.
I must say that was funny! My Voice mail on my cell phone took me so many times to do.. I left the one i have right know but am still contemplating if i should change it hmmm…
You’re my voicemail-impaired soulmate. You have no idea how reliant I am on the # function. I pretty much start recording a message already knowing I’m going to re-record it. At a minimum I press “2″ no matter what to replay and hear myself.
I’m the queen of tripping over my tongue, abusing the “ummm”s, unbelievably pointless run-on messages, and using these vocal expressions & tones that I have never, and will never, use in real life.
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LOL!!!!!!
Ok, you need to write it down if you can’t get it out right on the phone.
or maybe not. I’ve done that before, and when i listened to the message i said everything so fast, and i could hear myself take a deep breath as i was flipping the paper (which i could hear too).
So glad to know i’m not the only one that fumbles over words on the phone! Lol…
lol omg that was priceless… but what if she was at her desk the whole time listening to you redo your message 400 times??? lol grand… insha’allah she’ll call you with great news.
i can so relate to this article. so often ive written in advance what message i want to leave only to confuse myself and the person receiving the message even more. once someone rang back to say they didnt understand the message!!!!! embarrassing