Does anyone pick up the phone any more?

I am calling volunteers... nobody picks up.

...if there's a difference between the two anymore...


Why pay $5/mo for caller ID when screening via the already-paid-$20-for answerphone I bought works time and time again?

Not that that's impossible for them to get around...I know people who will fill out sweepstakes entries and put their names on lists at the drop of a hat...but I got on both the state and the national no-call list and it's made a HUGE difference. Didn't entirely eliminate it, but it's a LOT better.

Redstone

you want people to volunteer for something and, on some level, they know it. They can hear it in the way the phone's ringing.

Personally, if I don't know who it is, I let it ring. I don't know how I existed before caller ID and why I resisted it for so long.

Of course, I resisted the internets too, and now look at me...

:eyes:

but they don't respond to email or phone calls. I have a list of 35, with 3 people I can depend on.

Sounds pretty typical to me from occasions when I've had to beat the bushes for volunteers. When they put their name on the list, they do it with the very best of intentions and in a moment of...I don't want to say 'weakness' but 'misguided generosity' (don't like that one, either)...and then 'life' interferes. They don't want to come out and SAY 'take me off the list' because they're afraid that would be seen as selfish but, at the same time, they don't want to give up CSI or American Idol to do anything, either.

But...that's just my take on it.

I hope that it gets better and you get more people willing to do, rather than just sign up and don't.

Good luck.

:hug:

I have a couple of super-volunteers, a bunch of people who are already doing too much, and the deadbeats. Me and the super-volunteers will be doing the work of 20 people this weekend.

in volunteer organizations. It's called the 20/80 Rule — 20 percent of the people doing 80 percent of the work.

Redstone

I don't care how many times a person calls w/out leaving a message. You can call 10 times in a row w/ no message. I still won't pick up. :)

Some people I talk to don't like leaving messages on an answering machine... to them I say, "I don't like talking on the phone."

my friends no to leave me a message if it's something important.

because I picked a phone number that ended with 2 zeroes, thinking it would be easy to remember. Unfortunately, there are a number of businesses whose numbers are very close. One I get frequently is for Pizza Hut and I have been tempted to take an order.