When I answer the \u2019phone, I generally say either “Yes?” or “Good day\/evening, Sherwoods” rather than “Hello.” With cold-callers I often don’t get a response to that; I pause and try a variation or two of “Is someone there?” before the caller speaks up with a bewildered “Hello?”.<\/p>\n
Does their robo-dialer wait for a “Hello” before prompting the human that it has found a live line?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When I answer the \u2019phone, I generally say either “Yes?” or “Good day\/evening, Sherwoods” rather than “Hello.” With cold-callers I often don’t get a response to that; I pause and try a variation or two of “Is someone there?” before … Continue reading