The majority of my calls are robots, I basically never answer the phone, and they still fill up my Voicemail. It’s pretty lame.
Voicemail is banned as far as I am concerned. I don’t listen to voicemail, personally or professionally.
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Amen.
Personal? Send me a text.
Professional? Send me an email.
This is just my world.
For my family it’s one call for personal, if it’s an emergency call a second time and leave a message. Otherwise txt/E-mail whatever. A Voice mail = emergency.
It’s terrible but I heard that in my head in a stupidly thick aussie accent
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Even if it’s from your doctor or something like that?
My doctor’s office has their own app / web site that I use for all communication with them. Appointments, billing, lab results, and all my records with them are in the app. I can even see a doctor via webcam this way. It all just works.
My dentist doesn’t have an app, but they have a system that works via text and email. I never need to call them, and they never need to call me.
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Same. I even get encrypted emails with my HIPPA-protected info if I opt-in. I was also able to opt-in for receiving non-encrypted emails for some things.
Also if your involved with Politics, especially if you are a local committee person, it’s hard not to accept the calls cause you never know when a State Senator or State Rep is going to personally call you.
My doctors also mostly have secure communications website/app that I use for most of my communications with them (these tend to work for or are affiliated with a local major hospital). However, I have some doctors at smaller practices that don’t have this sort of stuff going on, so a phone call is the only way to communicate with them.
I get the impression that dentists don’t have as much need or care for HIPPA as physicians. My dentist needed a doctor’s note to know it’s okay to do a cleaning due to some medication I’m on and said, “Oh, just have your doctor email it to us.” Meanwhile, said doctor’s office was like, “No, we never email stuff like that.”
Plus, sometimes it’s quicker to get someone on the phone. Going back to said note for the dentist, I emailed my doctor for the note over a week ago and she never got back to me, so I ended up calling to try to see what’s going on.
One of my biggest pet peeves are people who send an email and than call you to tell you about the email they just sent you.
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What I do find fascinating is that I never get “legitimate” robocalls. No company I have a relationship with does it, and no companies that are legitimate sneak in.
It’s literally 100% actually illegal scams aimed primarily at the elderly or people who speak Chinese…
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Maybe because you don’t own a car or a home?
Most of the robocalls I get involve some type of insurance for my house or car, trying to get me to switch insurance companies.
Could be. If I ever buy a car again it’ll probably be in cash. If I ever buy a place to live in the city, it’ll probably be private lending and not a mortgage.
So I might just be safe for life!
I don’t know what @jabrams007 has been experiencing, but I’ve never gotten any sort of robocalls, as far as I can remember, with regards to a mortgage or homeowners or car insurance. Junk snail mail, sure, but that’s the extent of it.
@SkeleRym are you telling me you don’t currently even have renter’s insurance for your apartment? @jabrams007 did mention homeowner’s insurance as one of his robocalls. I would assume they would also want to target people for renter’s insurance, especially in a high rent town like NYC.
Oh, and I wonder where you’d find private lenders capable of coughing up enough cash to cover the equivalent of a mortgage. 
Everyone including us has that. It never causes robocalls. Probably partly because it’s so utterly cheap. It’s practically free, and there’s no possibility to upsell.
Can’t get mortgages for most property in NYC. The loans are too big. Most purchases here are either in cash or via private lending. (Except in the far edges of the city or otherwise weirdly cheap housing).
Or… ya know, Sunnyside.
I get scam calls about my car warranty or refinancing & I don’t have a driver’s license, much less a car.
I see… so in other words, the only way you can purchase real estate in NYC if you don’t have the cash on hand is to basically “know some guy” who does? Eh, I’ll believe that.