Poll: Should you text someone before you call them?

Clint and Producer Ella have very different ways of doing phone calls.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You tapped it, so we're playing it at Clint's the podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
I got a message from our producer Ella this morning
would have been like quarter past nine, and it just
said can I call you?

Speaker 1 (00:14):
I'm gonna say, did that scale a shut out?

Speaker 3 (00:19):
No?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
But I can see why it would.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
And I just replied, yes, okay, and then she called
and I answered the phone with you don't have to
text before you call me. Oh, you can just call.
That's how phone calls work, to which you said.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
Yeah, valid, What did I say?

Speaker 1 (00:38):
You said?

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
No, When I call people, I like to check if
it's okay to call, because what if you're busy or
you don't want to talk.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
What if you're in the middle of something. Oh yeah,
I'm like, you've got kids. That was nine am. You
might be getting them off to school.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
But I said, if I don't want to talk or
if I'm busy, I just won't answer. That's to me,
that's how phone calls work.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
But then being the person on the other end, that's not.
That's like waiting for you to pick up as well.
That's and then you don't pack up, and then you
don't hear anything, and you're like, they hate me, really yeah, yeah,
I can see that.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
You might be like, Alan, call me when it's the
hours of work? Well, like, why are they're not picking
up that they did?

Speaker 2 (01:13):
I think I think it might be a generational thing,
but we did put it up as a VIP A
very important poll today. Can I stick with you, Laudia?
If you're getting a phone called, you like warning that
a phone call is coming in?

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Or shall they just call?

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Historically I've banned people from going, hey, can I call you?
Because I assume something has gone horribly Yeah, yeah, yeah,
we need to talk, And I'm like, no, I prefer
they just call me and then I probably won't pick up.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
What do you want, Caitlin, Well, you were going to
high pressure nursing environment. They can't waste time texting before they.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Called, and that situation, they just call, hey.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Can we call?

Speaker 2 (01:46):
And then five minutes later you're like, yep, you can call,
and then they call and they go, it's too late.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Now a patient died. We needed we needed you five
minutes ago. I am not a doctor and I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Not that important, but yes, no, I think I I
think I text, But then I also I don't know
because you don't you can't just call people now, like
because it's just like why you call at least that's
my mum or my sister. If someone else calls me,
I'm like something except.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Like I love getting a call. I love it a
call too, but I love it. It's fast as to
the point.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, yeah, like no ambiguity around infliction, like you know,
if I'm grumpy, sure, or if I'm fine, because it's
but if.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
You So, if you call me Clinton, I'm like this
goss Some's covenant. So I answer straight away. But if
someone you know, something like you know, colleague calls me,
well the pole.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
The pole is still up on the Brian Clinton Instagram story,
but ALA's got the results for us as they stand
at the moment. The question was, if someone's going to
call you, do you want to text before they call?

Speaker 1 (02:48):
And what does the poll say? Ella, No, I just
called sixty four percent.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
So which means yes, of.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Course they message thirty six.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Percent says message first, We didn't. We should have put
up a third option, which was never called me.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Some people don't like some people just hate the gin z's.
They don't like the phone calls. No, but that's just
it gives them anxiety. Which is fine.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah, yeah, but no, I I were working work, calling
people from work.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
It's work, So I want to give you heads up considerate. Yeah,
that's why I messaged you. So you're saying you will
never be calling me just a.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
Chat, well, and if I do randomly, it is just
absolutely not.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
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Speaker 1 (03:37):
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