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Younger workers avoid phone calls and it might cost them opportunities

businessinsider.com

15 points by andrewstetsenko a day ago · 9 comments

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nacozarina a day ago

article ignores the reality that the vast majority of calls anyone receives nowadays are scams of one form or another

they aren’t the simple telemarketer scams of yesterday; many are sophisticated attacks with high-consequence outcomes that require considerable effort to navigate, if engaged.

Disengagement is currently an important survival tool.

cgstark a day ago

"Robbers are mad that people started locking their doors"

there's no way to tell if a phone call is a real opportunity at this point, and even when people can tell, the scam calls far exceed the genuine ones

  • adamsiem a day ago

    All the solutions have become problems themselves now. Anyone feel in control of blocking spam calls? What do you do? Asking for an iOS-native guide.

    • arealaccount a day ago

      Can try this for unknown numbers: https://support.apple.com/en-us/111106, most will just hang up

      > Ask Reason for Calling means these calls are screened (the caller is asked why they're calling before your phone even rings)

    • acheron a day ago

      Pretty easy.

      1) Have a phone number with an area code from a place you haven’t lived since 2004 and nobody legitimate would ever call you from.

      2) entirely block that area code.

      That takes care of 98% of it.

nixosbestos a day ago

"and it might cost them" lmao fuck right off Business Insider.

bigyabai a day ago

> A new survey of 2,000 Gen Zers and millennials by the self-improvement app RiseGuide

...so a sample of a subset of workers who are all looking for self-help? The survey might be self-selecting for people with anxiety disorders, methinks.

  • RugnirViking a day ago

    indeed. Looking at their consumption of self-help content may be my personal single biggest predictor of anxiety in people.

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