New Voicemail Greeting

[canyonwalker]

It occurred to me today I needed to change my voicemail greeting. Some actually left me a message and joked about the fact my greeting says it's 2022 when it's already 2023. Yes, I foolishly included the year in my outgoing message. It was:

Hi, this is Canyon Walker, and you've reached my voicemail. Since it's 2022 I assume you know what to do next....

Yeah, it was kind of a mistake to include the year in the message. That means I have to change it every 12 months! ...And I have been changing it every 12 months, as I've been using greetings like this for several years now.

So today I rerecorded my greeting. This time I took out the reference to the year.

Hi, this is Canyon Walker, and you've reached my— Wait, you know what? We've had voicemail for, like, thirty years now. I think you know what to do next.

Now I can go a few years before changing my message. 🤣

Comments

[sorcyress]

Hi it's Canyon Walker! Did you know the term "voice mail" was coined in 1980? Anyways, that probably means you know how to handle it!"

[khedron]

Nice. I wouldn't do it for the in-flight "here's how you buckle a seat belt" announcement because if someone genuinely doesn't know/has forgotten, they need to know how to do that. But voicemail? Go to town.