Do you ever accidentally answer your home/cell phone with your work greeting?

[aircooled]

"Thank you for calling company name, this is your name, may I help you?"

Guilty

 

[FoBoT]

no, it is the same

"hello, this is kevin"

 

[KingPhil]

I answer it with my name like I do at work.

I'm not a secretary so I'm not as elaborate like you.......

 

[azazyel]

only back in the day when I had a phone near my bed. I would answer the phone with my work greeting hear nothing until laughter broke out on the other line.

 

[her209]

"Hello, Accounts Payable. This is Nina speaking. (pause) Just a moment."

 

[cavemanmoron]

nope,no work greeting.

normal answer to house phone, Hello.

Work phone is a Nextel,and I can see who is calling,
so the response varies.Usually i answer : "yeah?" to my boss.

 

[BurnItDwn]

mine are the same as well ...
usually "Hi, this is Brian"
or "Hello, this is Brian"
and every now and again, depending upon who's on caller ID. I'll answer annoyingly saying "WHAZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZUP" like in scary movie.

 

[TheNinja]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
no, it is the same

"hello, this is kevin"

I answer my phone like that at work and home and cell phone....except I'm not Kevin so I use my name instead.

 

[mugs]

I usually look to see who's calling on my cell phone, so I'd be retarded if I answered it with my name like at work

 

[PeeluckyDuckee]

Originally posted by: her209
"Hello, Accounts Payable. This is Nina speaking. (pause) Just a moment."

lol, reminds me, I gotta watch this movie again. It's been a month since I last watched it. Can't get enough of it. Any chance of them making Office Space 2?

To answer the OP question, no I don't. I hate the stupid formal greeting we have to do at work. Got to be "professional".

 

[AndrewR]

I was talking to my wife one time about work when the phone rang, and I was in uniform. I picked up the phone and gave my unit and rank/name. It was a Japanese guy (was in Japan) so he was too polite to comment, but my wife cracked up at me.

 

[geminigear]

No

 

[jadinolf]

"Charlie's Pool Hall"

 

[Queasy]

I don't have that problem. I'm constantly dialing "9" first at home though.

 

[Legendary]

I work for HSBC bank - I once answered my cell phone with "HSB...aww crap dammit, hello?"
It was my mom.

 

[Raduque]

My job doesn't require me to use the phone, but I have been known to answer both my cell and the house phone with accents.

 

[Chode Messiah]

im to wasted. Who has been to strangeland.com?

 

[amdskip]

UCSS Helpdesk, this is Jeff, how may I help you?

 

[Crappopotamus]

thanks for calling futureshop, youve reached the computer department. how may i help you?

haha no never.

 

[GeekDrew]

"Eastland-Fairfield Computer Support Services, this is Andrew speaking, how may I help you?"

I've answered my phone incorrectly before, but it's rare... but my greeting depends upon the time of day & what caller id says.

For example, if one of my associates calls me at 3 AM... it's something like "This had better be important..."
If a friend calls, it's "Why are you calling this late? Are you OK?"
If my parents are calling, it's "Satan here, what in he11 do you want?"

 

[tami]

i never was a big phone answerer, but in instances where i had to be (or where i assumed another identity, as in the case when i was a private investigator), i never had a problem in different situations.

 

[AreaCode707]

I had trouble when I switched jobs - I'd answer the work phone with the old company's name.