• JackLSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
    601·
    11 months ago

    Just noting something that helped me (when receiving calls, especially for work): changing my ringtone to the Pokémon battle music

    Now a call is something to be defeated!

    Yeah, it’s stupid but at least it’s also dumb

    • Kalash@feddit.chEnglish
      23·
      11 months ago

      Also there is 112 for a lot of places that aren’t North America (and many more numbers).

      I’m pretty sure in Germany text won’t work. But you could probably send a fax. Response times may vary.

        • Kalash@feddit.chEnglish
          6·
          11 months ago

          My landline phone used to read out text messages sent to it.

          Holy shit, I remember that. In a terrible robotic voice, but it was understandable.

          I was really just trying to make a joke about the bad state of technlology of my home country … but it will probably work.

          • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            5·
            11 months ago

            A phone I know repeats the message three times, and after that there’s no way to listen to it again.

        • Madlaine@feddit.deEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          Luckily the Nora-App is in progress. It lets you send an emergency request (in germany) directly from the app.

          Unfortunately it was temporarily taken out of the App Stores. But I have a (seemingly) working version on my phone and it seems to have everything you would need. (Only used it once in test-mode, tho. Luckily I never actually had to send an emergency request)

          I suggest to all my fellow german lemmings to keep an eye out on https://www.nora-notruf.de/ and check it once in while.

          Better to have the app (when registrations are open again) and never need it than vice versa.

          For deaf people (in germany) there is also https://www.tess-relay-dienste.de/

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      11 months ago

      I actually helped implement 911 texting for a major cable company’s softphone application. I thought it was stupid but supposedly it’s so that people can still contact 911 in scenarios where it would be unsafe for them to talk - like hiding in a closet from a rampaging serial killer and whatnot. That was actually the only scenario anybody ever came up with to justify this.

    • Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.eeEnglish
      51·
      11 months ago

      While I see the use in this, I don’t know that I trust my typing skills in an emergency situation.

      “My coworker is going into a diabetic coma” would probably become “I ranch horse is gonna enter diamond comma”. Between my anxiety and autocorrect, I’d be an even worse mess.

  • don@lemm.eeEnglish
    14·
    11 months ago

    I hate wordsing over the phone. It’s like my brain’s already decided what I’m going to say, so my brain decides I’ve already said it and moved on to something else entirely. Then it comes time to hand over the words so brain just half-asses it, and now I gotta rethink about what I’ve already thought, and it all just goes straight to shit. Fuck phone calls.

    • bleistift2@feddit.deEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      Probably because it’s wayyyy easier to abuse a text message service than a phone service. Think how many services allow you to trigger a text message just by saying you forgot your password. Or simply by logging in on a new device.

  • r3df0x ✡️✝☪️@7.62x54r.ruEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    My wife has had employees get fired for calling out through texts instead of literally calling out.

    It’s not an automatic thing, but it’s a no call no show.

  • schmorp@slrpnk.netEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    I can beat the phone-phobia by drawing doodles. Seems to keep the part of my brain busy and quiet that usually does the internal incoherent screeching. Plus it has the advantage of getting lots of funny doodles.