I was interested to read a recent essay on phone etiquette, which basically boiled down to two primary rules: 1. Don’t make phone calls. 2. Don’t answer phone calls. We have, in essence, created a ...

Ever since humanity developed the technology to miniaturize the telephone—first to the size of shoe, then to the size of a credit card, and then back to the size of a shoe again—one debate has raged: ...

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Are you looking for clever and funny ways to answer the phone? Skipping over the typical "How do you do?" and replacing it with a silly saying can be a great way to spice up conversations with the ...

LOS ANGELES - Phone scams can come in many different forms. The most common type of scams include one-ring scams, traffic-pumping scams, and package delivery scams. Phone scams are the most common.

Early on the prologue Juliet will get a call from her mother checking in, effectively introducing you to the phone mechanic. And the game will prompt you to check your calls whenever you receive them, ...

For business owners, phone calls can be an enormous time waster. Take the restaurant industry, for example. Calls can lead to more important tasks being overlooked, like doing inventory, balancing ...

Imagine your phone ringing on the breakfast bar across the room. Could it be the job offer you’ve waited all week for? But—drat—you’re smack in the middle of changing your three-month-old, who’s made ...

As the tax-return filing season sets to open Jan. 29, the Internal Revenue Service is getting some timely criticism — from within its own ranks. The Taxpayer Advocate Service, an independent watchdog ...

As Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano tells it, callers only had to wait an average of 8 minutes to speak to an agent on the phone in July. "We had a bold goal of single-digit wait time on ...