Comments on: Who Do You Respond To?

By: Frances King

Frances King — Sat, 06 May 2006 09:39:53 +0000

I have called a person back before that called my home thinking it was his doctors office wanting to re-schedule his appointment. I thought it was important to let this gentleman know he had not reached his doctor office. I found his doctors number in the phone book for him and gave it to him .He was very grateful and found out he had reversed two numbers. We had a plesant conversation.
I get many 1-800 calls on my phone saying unknown caller.If they leave a message and I think it is in need of response then I will call back. If a message was not left it leads me to belive the call was not necessary so I do not return the call.

By: Jerry Wang

Jerry Wang — Thu, 04 May 2006 16:50:35 +0000

We must lead by example. “There is evil in the world when good people do nothing”. It’s not about being polarized or being righteous. It is important to make your voices heard to create a culture tht will help us all. I used to have a “make no trouble” attitude but as I am pushing 46, I realized that as an “elder” of the human tribe, I have an obligation to voice the necessary even if it may be very hard to do so.

By: Jacqueline Pegorsch

Jacqueline Pegorsch — Mon, 01 May 2006 14:40:25 +0000

Yeah! I have returned voicemail, mis directed calls. And, when it was a part of my responsibility to do the hiring I did let candidates that I invterviewed know when a canidate was selected. I think it is just courteous. I still endeavor to treat others as I would like to be treated.

By: Kathleen DuBois

Kathleen DuBois — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:31:12 +0000

I do take the time to respond to wrong number voice mails. That helps me as well as the other person, as otherwise, they sometimes continue to call, and sometimes at unpleasant hours. I would only respond to bidding contractors not selected for a job if they specifically requested I do so, or if I thought my reasoning for not selecting them might help them in the future (ie - unprofessional behaviors, etc). I am an individual, not a business, so I don’t think experienced contractors expect a “non select” call. I’d like to think that if I were in a business, I would call all hopeful applicants as well as vendors. The applicants for obvious humanitarian reasons, the vendors to curtail future unwanted contacts or encourage wanted contacts. My own job does require me to network with sites and people across the country to get things done for our customers. I do try very hard to apply the golden rule in those cases. I wouldn’t have made the call if it wasn’t important to me, so it’s probably important to them too.