If each customer leaves one message and checks voicemail once a day, Verizon rakes in — are you sitting down?
Before saying "Goodnight Irene," I left one more message, with these words of wisdom from Paul Simon: "A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest".
Mainly, we sat at our desks and wrote wishy-washy poems on keyboards manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation, left one another sly messages on pink While You Were Out sticky notes, swapped paperback novels Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Atwood, Gabriel García Márquez, that kind of thing and, during lunch hour, had assignations in empty, unlocked offices.
Yet he could not resist leaving one last message.
The bills have all been left by customers, with personalised messages, so I left one from the Guardian, stapled into the ceiling with a staple gun provided by a woman at the bar.
I left messages but didn't hear back, so I left one more, reminding him of my previous calls.
"We're the largest group still up, how many hours do we have left?" asked one message on the page.
The shoot-the-messenger frenzy that has greeted Sunday's New York Times op-ed by Ronald Reagan's former budget director leaves one searching for the message that has so unhinged his critics.
And if you forget to leave one of the voice messages, you can manage your account from the computer as you would with a traditional system.
It may be users who've left at least one message, or an active user number that is over a longer period than the weekly number (monthly, for example).
