How to Bypass Stupid Voicemail Instructions

Ya, I know how to leave a voicemail. I don't need to hear those stupid instructions for the 99,999 thousandth time.

You have reached the voicemail... STFU ! I know how to work it.

"How to Bypass Stupid Voicemail Instructions

In my Times column last week, I wrote about those inane, utterly pointless, time-wasting “how-to-leave-a-message” instructions foisted upon us by Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile. I calculated that they earn the carriers over $850 million a year, just by eating up our airtime.

Several of you asked how I arrived at that calculation. Here it is: I’m using, as an example, Verizon’s $60-a-month plan. You get 900 minutes for that, which comes out to 6.67 cents a minute.

Verizon has 70 million customers. If each one leaves a message or checks voicemail twice a day, that’s 70 million * 6.67 cents * .5 (half a minute listening to two 15-second instruction recordings) * 365 days = $852,092,500. And that’s just Verizon!

(Even if you omit free weekend calls, Verizon still makes $609 million—and makes you wait 3 hours a year, listening to that same message over and over and over again.)

So how do we fight back? " read more: http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/ ... ions/?_r=0

Here it is if you don't want to click,

If you’re clever, though, you can do the “one-star-pound” method recommend by this blogger:

STEP ONE. Press 1. If it’s Sprint, you get the beep, and you’re done. If you hear an error recording, go on:

STEP TWO. Press *. If it’s Verizon, you get the beep. If not:

STEP THREE: Push #. You get the beep for T-Mobile or Cingular.

You have to pause after each one, and you have to keep listening. But it’s one small way to fight back. Remember: One Star Pound.

So if repetitive stupidity pisses you off try this.

" repetitive stupidity"...

Anyone know how to bypass these T.V ads , I swear I have mini seizures every time I see and hear these stupid ads.




I would rather pay $100s extra every year then buy progressive insurance that would just use part of my premium to assault t.v viewers with those ads every 15 minutes 365 days a year every channel !