Mute button on phone

[poxpower]

So I was talking with my dad on the phone and I guess I must have hit the mute button by mistake and then he was like "hello? hello?" for 30 seconds and it just disconnected.

NOW WHY THE FUCK WOULD I WANT TO MUTE ANYTHING ON A FUCKING PHONE WHILE I'M TALKING IN IT? WHAT THE FUCK???

[Noobivore]

dude the same shit happens to me.
muting on the phone makes no sense.

[TOEZ]

So your annoying girlfriend can blab about whatever she wants, and you don't have to listen to a damn thing. Bitchin'.

[Cur1y]

Small use, but mute to talk to another person, not on the phone, without getting off the phone with person A.

[xports]

I use it to eavesdrop on the other phones in my house.

[HeartbreakHoldout]

If you need to talk to somebody else, whilst on the phone, and you don't want the person on the other end of the line to hear, I guess it would be an amazing function.

[Ghyfty]

Stop complaining about everything you asshole.

[STEM]

If I can't use the button on people in my presence, I should at least be able to use it on communication devices. The button is there for amusement and nothing more.

Regardless, those kids with tourettes will still find a way around the mute button.

[Dropkicked]

I actually use it frequently when I have to speak to other people in the room and I don't want the person on the phone to hear what I'm saying.

[Aryk]

So you can talk bad about the person you're on the phone with to your friend. Why else?

[poxpower]

So basically you're all despicable people and use the mute button to play mind games and be douchebags to people even before you've hung up on them.

Man, when I was a kid, we'd at least wait until the person left before we started talking in that person's back.

[Aryk]

At 11/7/08 09:50 PM, poxpower wrote: So basically you're all despicable people and use the mute button to play mind games and be douchebags to people even before you've hung up on them.

Man, when I was a kid, we'd at least wait until the person left before we started talking in that person's back.

It's not like I actually do that. I'm not that kind of person. I was just being witty.

[NEVR]

At 11/7/08 09:50 PM, poxpower wrote: Man, when I was a kid, we'd at least wait until the person left before we started talking in that person's back.

The noble generation.

[LichKingz]

How about you have some fucking optimism?
Imagine that a sales person keeps calling you over and over, and he will not stop. Or this automated product placement machine keeps calling you? Maybe mexicans keep calling you because the last person that had that phone number was mexican?
Now imagine that you do not have your mute button handy.
Yeah.

[DonPatch-0110]

I love the mute button! I like annoying my friends of the phone with it! LOL

[rome-lherison]

The mute button is so you can curse somebody out, or saying something private without that person hearing, and you having to cover the phone with your hand.

Simple right?

[Rage]

At 11/7/08 09:15 PM, poxpower wrote:

NOW WHY THE FUCK WOULD I WANT TO MUTE ANYTHING ON A FUCKING PHONE WHILE I'M TALKING IN IT? WHAT THE FUCK???

You have never, ever worked in a call center.

[poxpower]

At 11/8/08 12:04 AM, RageVI wrote:

You have never, ever worked in a call center.

I don't get it, when does the mute come into play?
You're obviously going to have to talk to the dude at some point so any background noise that you'd try to hide by muting your voice would just show through the second you talk.

Unless you plan on calling/answering people without talking.

[JadeTheAssassin]

Ohhhh, maybe the mute button is so no one hears you yell for the person the caller is asking for.

Makes sense now, I think the pause button on my particular phone is for that reason. hmmm.

>:)
Something new to try on the gabby friend.

[Rage]

At 11/8/08 12:06 AM, poxpower wrote:

I don't get it, when does the mute come into play?
You're obviously going to have to talk to the dude at some point so any background noise that you'd try to hide by muting your voice would just show through the second you talk.

Unless you plan on calling/answering people without talking.

For starters, you'll most likely be wearing a headset. Every cough, sneeze, sniffle, etc. is going to have a mic right in front of your face regardless of what direction you're turning your head. Unless you want to rip out an enormous snort in to the phone or make it sound like there's a hurricane whenever you cough, it's nice to tap the mute button and pretend it never happened.

Also, many call center phones don't wait for you to "answer" the call. You can be in the middle of a conversation and, with very little warning, you'll be in a call. If you have the mute button hit ahead of time, you won't mistakenly start out with a customer by telling them how stupid the last person was or how badly you need to take a piss.

Then there's the co-workers, who either are being really loud, or have to tell you about the conversation they just had with Joe Blow who fired a rifle at his cable box because he thought the red light on it was a camera. It's almost always stuff you don't want the other person hearing. It's also therapeutic sometimes to hit the mute button so you can still mumble curses to yourself while sounding as polite as possible.

It's not always bad stuff, though. Sometimes you just have to ask someone nearby a question while you've got the customer on the line. Sometimes it helps when you're eating something crunchy, so you can crunch a few times without loudly announcing your activities to the person on the line, or when you need to have a drink of water or what not.

I could think of a few more things. For real. That covers most of it, though.

[aquaticmole]

I never even knew there such a thing. This is quite a mind explosian for me.

[The-Omnipresence]

Mute buttons are for those times you just don't want to hear the guy blabber on about nothing.

Personally I wouldn't know because nobody calls me.... EVER.

[someone-else]

I can only think that it would be useful as a "hold" if you need to talk to someone else without having to put the phone to your chest.

[Haoie]

None of my phones have mute options.

It'd be nice to have them though.

[Sensationalism]

At 11/8/08 12:25 AM, RageVI wrote:

At 11/8/08 12:06 AM, poxpower wrote:

mute button/call center

That mute button is such a life saver, especially when allergies act up! I used it today about 15 times.

[NISMOelite]

I use it when I need to take a piss while talkin with a chica

[PakaPaka]

At 11/7/08 10:02 PM, NEVR wrote:

At 11/7/08 09:50 PM, poxpower wrote: Man, when I was a kid, we'd at least wait until the person left before we started talking in that person's back.

The noble generation.

I prefer to call us the Millennium Generation.

Yeah.

[Cally]

At 11/8/08 12:04 AM, RageVI wrote:

At 11/7/08 09:15 PM, poxpower wrote:

NOW WHY THE FUCK WOULD I WANT TO MUTE ANYTHING ON A FUCKING PHONE WHILE I'M TALKING IN IT? WHAT THE FUCK???

You have never, ever worked in a call center.

The mute switch failed on one of my coworkers a couple of months ago, he had some guy yelling at him down the phone, and hit the mute switch to say "For fuck's sake..." but his headset has seen better days and the customer got "...'s sake", filling in the blanks and getting all the worse. He got a warning.
Also if you've got that one customer on the other end who's a real character and you have to must to have a giggle.

Mute is a great invention. I'm guessing you have a touch-screen phone to have hit it accidentally?

[Cally]

At 11/8/08 07:48 AM, Cally wrote:

Also if you've got that one customer on the other end who's a real character and you have to must to have a giggle.

Must? Mute.

[The-Condor]

At 11/7/08 09:15 PM, poxpower wrote:

NOW WHY THE FUCK WOULD I WANT TO MUTE ANYTHING ON A FUCKING PHONE WHILE I'M TALKING IN IT? WHAT THE FUCK???

so you can sit thru a fucking long and boring conversation