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I've told everyone I know that I don't, won't, can't, shan't and simply will not take voice calls on my mobile. Period. I blacklist everything except for a couple of people that are very important to me. If you're not one of those three people, put your useless message on a camel and send it my way because I don't really care, and not being able to hear that tiny little speaker because my hearing is shot from years of misspent youth don't help.

This morning, some stuff happened and I sent out a message to a few people that I knew would be travelling in, in an effort to save them a lot of miles and gas. They know that I don't take phone calls. So what do they all do? CALL MEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! or they call multiple times and when I ask them did I not tell you I don't take calls they go "Well, I just thought I'd try." They don't even consider the fact that I just said "Things are closed, I don't know why. Going home."

Literally. What part of me telling you that my phone blacklists all calls and it won't even ring, and you won't even get voicemail on my main number DO NOT CALL OR ASK ME TO CALL YOU is so fucking damn fucking fucking hard to understand?

I've told everyone I know that I don't, won't, can't, shan't and simply will not take voice calls on my mobile. Period. I blacklist everything except for a couple of people that are very important to me. If you're not one of those three people, put your useless message on a camel and send it my way because I don't really care, and not being able to hear that tiny little speaker because my hearing is shot from years of misspent youth don't help. This morning, some stuff happened and I sent out a message to a few people that I knew would be travelling in, in an effort to save them a lot of miles and gas. They know that I don't take phone calls. So what do they all do? CALL MEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! or they call multiple times and when I ask them did I not tell you I don't take calls they go "Well, I just thought I'd try." They don't even consider the fact that I just said "Things are closed, I don't know why. Going home." Literally. What part of me telling you that my phone blacklists all calls and it won't even ring, and you won't even get voicemail on my main number DO NOT CALL OR ASK ME TO CALL YOU is so fucking damn fucking fucking hard to understand?

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I don't necessarily mind out-of-hours questions if I can answer them quickly

I used to feel this way, but over the last year, I don't want anything to do with it. It shifts my brain back into work mode. For whatever reason I'm having a harder time compartmentalizing it. If it is a critical issue that is one thing, but it's mostly dumb shit that can wait or just stumble through on their own.

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My work and my hobbies overlap, so it's not that much of a stretch for me. But I can understand why you don't want to answer shit out of hours.