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Offline jinxmchue

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Have you ever answered your home phone with your work phone greeting?
« on: January 14, 2009, 08:55:55 AM »
I just did...  and it was work that was calling me!  How embarrassing!
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Re: Have you ever answered your home phone with your work phone greeting?
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2009, 08:59:21 AM »
The short answer is, no. But then again, I don't spend a lot of time on the phone and I customarily wait for a least two rings before answering.

More often than not, I wait for the machine to pick it up. For obvious reasons.  :censored:
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Re: Have you ever answered your home phone with your work phone greeting?
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2009, 09:05:44 AM »
Absolutely.  People really wonder what's going on, when they call your house and the first thing out of your mouth is an office, rank, name and the phrase "This is not a secure line."

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Re: Have you ever answered your home phone with your work phone greeting?
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2009, 09:09:41 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on January 14, 2009, 09:05:44 AM
Absolutely.  People really wonder what's going on, when they call your house and the first thing out of your mouth is an office, rank, name and the phrase "This is not a secure line."

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Now that would be a bit disconcerting.
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Re: Have you ever answered your home phone with your work phone greeting?
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2009, 09:11:44 AM »
Not recently, but I've done it in the past.
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Re: Have you ever answered your home phone with your work phone greeting?
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2009, 09:12:08 AM »
Quote from: BadCat on January 14, 2009, 09:10:06 AM
No, not my real work anyway.
I usually answer the phone with "French Mortuary".
Strangers don't call back.

 :lmao: :rotf:

yeah, but do you say it in French?
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Re: Have you ever answered your home phone with your work phone greeting?
« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2009, 09:18:11 AM »
Quote from: Eupher on January 14, 2009, 09:12:08 AM
:lmao: :rotf:

yeah, but do you say it in French?

And with an outrageous accent ("you silly king")?
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Re: Have you ever answered your home phone with your work phone greeting?
« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2009, 09:25:41 AM »
Quote from: jinxmchue on January 14, 2009, 09:18:11 AM
And with an outrageous accent ("you silly king")?

 :lmao:

Louis XVI would NOT take to that kindly!
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Re: Have you ever answered your home phone with your work phone greeting?
« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2009, 09:54:11 AM »
Quote from: Eupher on January 14, 2009, 09:25:41 AM
:lmao:

Louis XVI would NOT take to that kindly!

I fart in you general direction!
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Re: Have you ever answered your home phone with your work phone greeting?
« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2009, 10:19:04 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on January 14, 2009, 09:05:44 AM
Absolutely.  People really wonder what's going on, when they call your house and the first thing out of your mouth is an office, rank, name and the phrase "This is not a secure line."

 :rotf:

That's hilarious. :-)

My short answer is 'yes'.  Hell, I've done it at the drive-through.  The problems begin when you start having dreams about being at work. 
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Re: Have you ever answered your home phone with your work phone greeting?
« Reply #10 on: January 14, 2009, 10:25:40 AM »
Quote from: BadCat on January 14, 2009, 10:22:37 AM
I started doing it years ago in Albuquerque, where there actually was a French Mortuary.
I think it was run by Mexicans.

Isn't everything in Albuquerque run by Mexicans?
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Re: Have you ever answered your home phone with your work phone greeting?
« Reply #11 on: January 14, 2009, 11:07:04 AM »
Yes, but worse is when I dial 9 for an outside call  :whatever:

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Re: Have you ever answered your home phone with your work phone greeting?
« Reply #12 on: January 14, 2009, 11:13:06 AM »
No, but since we have caller ID it's fun to screw with my wife. I've answered "Murphy's Bar and Grill" or my fav "speak". Gets her every time.  :lmao:
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Re: Have you ever answered your home phone with your work phone greeting?
« Reply #13 on: January 14, 2009, 11:15:14 AM »
I have an annoying friend that answers the phone with "Talk to me"...Not sure what movie he got it from, but it's not cool. Sigh...guys.... :hammer:
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Re: Have you ever answered your home phone with your work phone greeting?
« Reply #14 on: January 14, 2009, 11:24:25 AM »
Quote from: Hawkgirl on January 14, 2009, 11:15:14 AM
I have an annoying friend that answers the phone with "Talk to me"...Not sure what movie he got it from, but it's not cool. Sigh...guys.... :hammer:
From the Spanish phrase 'digame'. It sounds fine in Spanish, in English it sounds a tad rude.
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Re: Have you ever answered your home phone with your work phone greeting?
« Reply #15 on: January 14, 2009, 11:35:55 AM »
Quote from: Wineslob on January 14, 2009, 11:13:06 AM
No, but since we have caller ID it's fun to screw with my wife. I've answered "Murphy's Bar and Grill" or my fav "speak". Gets her every time.  :lmao:

I remember a movie some years ago about some tough guy wannabe whose answering machine commanded, "SPEAK!" as an intro.

That kinda intro might even rattle a telemarketer.

Nah. No way.
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Re: Have you ever answered your home phone with your work phone greeting?
« Reply #16 on: January 14, 2009, 11:36:50 AM »
Mabel's Whorehouse Bar and Grill was funny once.

ONCE.
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Re: Have you ever answered your home phone with your work phone greeting?
« Reply #17 on: January 14, 2009, 11:48:01 AM »
Quote from: NHSparky on January 14, 2009, 11:36:50 AM
Mabel's Whorehouse Bar and Grill was funny once.

ONCE.

Where the customer always comes first.  :uhsure:
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Re: Have you ever answered your home phone with your work phone greeting?
« Reply #18 on: January 14, 2009, 11:53:28 AM »
Considering the security edicts over where I work (and the fact that because of those edicts, I answer the phone "hello" at work) I answer the phone "hello" at both places.

That or: "Bob's Buckets of Bolts.  Louie Speaking."; "Paco's Tacos.  'dis is Ingrid"; or "Mort's Mortuary.  You stab 'em we slab 'em.  Would you like to hear about our group rates?"

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Re: Have you ever answered your home phone with your work phone greeting?
« Reply #19 on: January 14, 2009, 12:19:11 PM »
Yes, I used to work for a business interiors company in Phoenix.  It became 2nd nature to say the company name when I answered the phone.
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Re: Have you ever answered your home phone with your work phone greeting?
« Reply #20 on: January 14, 2009, 03:14:47 PM »
Quote from: Hawkgirl on January 14, 2009, 11:15:14 AM
I have an annoying friend that answers the phone with "Talk to me"...Not sure what movie he got it from, but it's not cool. Sigh...guys.... :hammer:

Actually, it reminds me of that first host of "Cheaters" who always answered the phone with, "Talk to me, Gomez!"
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Re: Have you ever answered your home phone with your work phone greeting?
« Reply #21 on: January 14, 2009, 03:25:02 PM »
We had portable handsets for our work phone and they looked similar to the mobile phone I had at the time. Thus I nearly answered my work phone with my standard mobile phone greeting . "Hello , this is Kremlin , Boris speaking" ...done in a *really* bad Russian accent. I got all the way through "Hello, This is Kremlin" before realizing.

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Re: Have you ever answered your home phone with your work phone greeting?
« Reply #22 on: January 14, 2009, 04:21:00 PM »
Quote from: jinxmchue on January 14, 2009, 09:18:11 AM
And with an outrageous accent ("you silly king")?

Best.  Sales Call. Prank.  Ever.

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Re: Have you ever answered your home phone with your work phone greeting?
« Reply #23 on: January 14, 2009, 07:31:15 PM »
I have, but it was much funnier when my grandmother did it.

She worked for a funeral home.

Talk about dead silence on the other end...   :-)
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Re: Have you ever answered your home phone with your work phone greeting?
« Reply #24 on: January 14, 2009, 10:10:16 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on January 14, 2009, 09:05:44 AM
Absolutely.  People really wonder what's going on, when they call your house and the first thing out of your mouth is an office, rank, name and the phrase "This is not a secure line."

 :rotf:

I did that a time or two when I was on active duty.
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