Maybe you're a bill collector.

[conuly]

Maybe you're a telemarketer. Maybe you're calling from a doctor's office, and god I hope not, because if your response to "I'm sorry, who is this?" is to give your own first and last name and not the name of your employer and the reason you are calling, then as far as I'm concerned you are a wrong number.

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[conuly]

I'm the only one of us who will answer calls from unknown numbers. Consequently, everybody gives my number to everybody. Doctor's offices? Schools? Perfectly legit folks who will call us later? I'm the contact person!

Which is actually okay with me except when I get folks like that one. "Jane Smith" is not an adequate answer to my question and they certainly do know that.

[melita66]

I'm also the contact person and our previous school and district kept using different numbers even as I kept adding them as contacts. I usually ask, "What's this about?"

[alexseanchai]

huh. because my former place of employment, anyone could dial any of our numbers from anywhere, and we could dial anyone else in…possibly the entire state government phone system? definitely our division…and caller ID would show which specific number was placing the call, but if we called anyone outside our phone system, it would show as a call from the same number as on the division's website as the main contact-by-phone.