[masraum]

Originally Posted by svandamme

I have a colleague from uk calling me regulary, and i know it's him by voice, but I'll go "Who's caling please" just on principle.
I find it just rude to call me to come ask me for help and not even have the manners to say who you are.

What's about 10x worse is when someone calls you, if you answer "hello" they follow up with "who is this?"

Almost universally growing up, folks answered the phone with "hello" unless it's a business where there's more to it, name of the business, name of the person answering, etc.... I was always taught, when you call someone, and they say "hello" you follow up with something very close to "Hi, this is Steve Masraum calling. May I speak to Bob?". I was also taught when they say "hello" you never follow up with "who is this?"