"Please leave a message, and i'll get back to you at my convenience"

[JEDI]

how pretentious!

the person is 'senior coordinator.' that's another word for overpaid admin assistant.

what do you think about his voicemail?


edit:
Mine says: "Please leave a message. Thank you."

What's w/the obnoxious "at my convenience?"

 

[jlee]

At least he's honest.

 

[Alone]

Sounds good to me.

I'd rather the no bull shit truth than to have someone lie to me.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

WTF do you expect, a person to call you back at YOUR convenience? Now that's pretentious.

 

[Saga]

Mine says "I'll return your call at my earliest convenience".

Would you genuinely prefer I returned your call while taking a piss, or can you wait 30 seconds for it to be convenient? Sounds like you're more arrogant than him.

 

[spidey07]

You called ME, therefore when I have time and at my convenience I will bless you with my voice. You're the one who wanted to hear it.

 

[TheNinja]

I think it's just a weird way of saying "leave me a message and I'll call you back". The person probably doesn't even know what it means or how it sounds. My message just says "The party you have called *name* is not available. Please leave a message at the tone." It's simple and effective.

 

[Flammable]

OPownd

 

[BrownTown]

Thats a pretty standard message from what I've seen...

 

[SlitheryDee]

Sounds good to me. My own ideal voice mail would be "Please leave a message, and I'll get back to you if I feel like it".

 

[scott916]

How is this any different than "I'll call when I have a chance", or "I'll call when as soon as I'm available"?

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: JEDI
how pretentious!

the person is 'senior coordinator.' that's another word for overpaid admin assistant.

what do you think about his voicemail?

You called him at YOUR convenience, so why can't he do the same?

 

[Drako]

Originally posted by: Saga
Mine says "I'll return your call at my earliest convenience".

Would you genuinely prefer I returned your call while taking a piss, or can you wait 30 seconds for it to be convenient? Sounds like you're more arrogant than him.

Same as mine. Not sure why this would be considered pretentious, but whatever.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: Saga
Mine says "I'll return your call at my earliest convenience".

The polite phrase is "at my earliest possible convenience."

That admin asst is a 'tard making a crucial mistake and probably doesn't realize it.

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: TheNinja
I think it's just a weird way of saying "leave me a message and I'll call you back". The person probably doesn't even know what it means or how it sounds. My message just says "The party you have called *name* is not available. Please leave a message at the tone." It's simple and effective.

ding ding din Winnar!

"Please leave a message. Thank you."

What's w/the obnoxious "at my convenience?"

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: Saga
Mine says "I'll return your call at my earliest convenience".

The polite phrase is "at my earliest possible convenience."

That admin asst is a 'tard making a crucial mistake and probably doesn't realize it.

yeah, that would have been better too.

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: JEDI

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: Saga
Mine says "I'll return your call at my earliest convenience".

The polite phrase is "at my earliest possible convenience."

That admin asst is a 'tard making a crucial mistake and probably doesn't realize it.

yeah, that would have been better too.

I just replied to your thread at my convenience. Am I pretentious too?

 

[DangerAardvark]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: Saga
Mine says "I'll return your call at my earliest convenience".

The polite phrase is "at my earliest possible convenience."

That admin asst is a 'tard making a crucial mistake and probably doesn't realize it.

That's what I was thinking. The tard probably doesn't recognize the difference in tone between "convenience" and earliest possible convenience".

 

[mjrpes3]

Originally posted by: scott916
How is this any different than "I'll call when I have a chance", or "I'll call when as soon as I'm available"?

They're basically the same but there does seem to be implied differences if you want to read into it.

"At my convenience" seems to imply the person won't necessarily be giving a high priority to returning calls. Returning calls could be below the present, personal convenience of heading down to Starbucks or watching Family Guy on Hulu.

Contrast that to "I'll call when as soon as I'm available". Even if I would have found it personally more convenient to watch Family Guy before giving you that call, I will live up to my word and call you back "as soon as I get your message".

If I want to leave a good first impression with someone leaving a messages, I'd go with clear wording the lets people know how exactly I intend to process their call.

 

[DVad3r]

It's an assertive messege. Mine is like "Hi, I'm unavailable to take your call right now, but if you leave a messege, I will get back to you at my earliest convenience".

He just takes his one step further by not including "earliest". If I were you I would just leave him an obnoxiously long, long messege, and then when he tries calling you back you miss the call and then call him back again and leave another giant messege explaining how sorry you are that you missed his call.

 

[moshquerade]

Believe it or not,
George isn't at home.
Please leave a message... at the beep!
I must be out, or I'd pick up the phone,
Where could I be?
Believe it or not, I'm not home!

 

[Gooberlx2]

I hear "...at the earliest convenience..." all the time. Just a different/more blunt choice of words in this case.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
Believe it or not,
George isn't at home.
Please leave a message... at the beep!
I must be out, or I'd pick up the phone,
Where could I be?
Believe it or not, I'm not home!

That's gotta be the greatest American answering machine message.

 

[scott916]

Originally posted by: mjrpes3

Originally posted by: scott916
How is this any different than "I'll call when I have a chance", or "I'll call when as soon as I'm available"?

They're basically the same but there does seem to be implied differences if you want to read into it.

"At my convenience" seems to imply the person won't necessarily be giving a high priority to returning calls. Returning calls could be below the present, personal convenience of heading down to Starbucks or watching Family Guy on Hulu.

Contrast that to "I'll call when as soon as I'm available". Even if I would have found it personally more convenient to watch Family Guy before giving you that call, I will live up to my word and call you back "as soon as I get your message".

If I want to leave a good first impression with someone leaving a messages, I'd go with clear wording the lets people know how exactly I intend to process their call.

Yeah, I guess that makes sense. People read into things far too deeply at times.

 

[ja1484]

WTF is wrong with you? Of course he's going to call back at his convenience. When the fuck else would he call? YOUR convenience? 3AM? Christmas morning?

Some of you people are ridiculous.