Do you answer other peoples' phones at work?

I answer my neighbour's phone when it's an internal call, or if I recognise the external number. I usually don't answer for numbers I don't recognise.
 
If a mobile keeps ringing in my office i take the battery out the back of it. If a land line just turn off the ringer as everyone should have voice mail.
 
If I'm in a position to answer it, I'll answer it.

But, we've got a facility on ours to answer others, so it's dead easy.
 
I answered a colleagues phone and said sorry, I think Paul got let go this morning. If you email him he might pick it up at home.



It was his wife calling to see when he'd be home for tea!



That's one practical joke that backfired on me - he told my wife the next day I'd gone out to lunch with the secretary!
 
There are 3 people in my work group thath all answer calls, annoys the hell out of me when im busy doing soemthing and one of the others doesnt answer it, the second you sit down to answer it they pretend to go for it as well :mad: lol
 
Never answer another person's phone, that's what voicemail is for.

What was unbelievably annoying when I worked IT for a big bank in London was getting a call to my phone from some scrote who had looked up the desk location of the person they wanted to speak to and then phoned me as I was "near them" on the location list and so could probably help... didn't matter that the other person was from a completely different team/product and nothing to do with IT!
 
virdi, where do you work?

i have found that some places people really dont like people answering others phones unless you are in a pickup group!
 
I always answer it, say they aren't at their desk at the moment, would they like you to pass on a message? It's not really that difficult :p
 
I check to see who it is first, we have internal caller display and judge which department they are from and wether I am likely to be of any use.

There is nothing worse than ringing someone up and not getting who you wanted followed by that person saying "what's up? maybe I can help" then going through an explanation of what you may need only to be told, "sorry no, you will need the person you rang for that".

Obviously there are things far worse than that but it gets on my ****.
 
skippi90 said:
Why must our lives grind to a halt because the phone rings? It's wierd that we drop everything instantly when the phone rings.
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errrr...no not really because thats what the ringing noise is for ? I'm suprised nobody has explained it to you so far ?

Perhaps you also get perplexed when people head to the fire escape when the alarms sounds.
 
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