Outgoing Message

Today, my cell phone became my work phone.  Meaning, I changed the outgoing message.  Now it’s client-call friendly.  I’ve heard this done different ways.  What I ended up with:

“Hi, you’ve reached the office of [me].  Please leave a message and I’ll get back to you within one business day.  If this is an emergency, please hang up and dial 911.”

I’ve also heard:

“This is the psychotherapy office of…”

Only objection:  If someone *69s your call to a client–say her jealous, DV perp bf–better not to let the DVing bf that his gf’s secretly getting help.

Another thought, if you’re carrier provides it, might add something like this early on:

“To bypass message press [whatever]…”

Your friends (and regular clients) don’t want to hear the walk-through yet again.

Thanks!


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  1. secret agent girl Avatar
    secret agent girl

    If someone’s *69ing then they are almost certainly also googling the number and are going to find out it’s a therapist’s number, unless you’re a complete luddite and not anywhere on the ‘net.

    So the vagueness isn’t really going to help anyone…plus that kind of message does little to build rapport and encourage a message being left, IMO.

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