{"id":189,"date":"2006-02-24T12:28:59","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T04:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/?p=189"},"modified":"2006-02-24T12:28:59","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T04:28:59","slug":"its-so-hard-to-say-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"It’s so hard to say goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Phone etiquete is a funny beast. Opening the conversation is never hard for me, it usually goes along the lines of “Hello, this is Tom from ***, how are you doing today?” “fine? oh yes, thats nice, I’m feeling rather brilliant myself… now [that the phone courting ritual is over], I’m actually calling about such and such a matter..].
\nThis is usually followed by a lengthy discussion about the smell of fish or possibly me asking them what they’re wearing. The problem is, once I have concluded my important conversation or run out of breath due to heavy breathing, I find it hard and akward to end the phonecall.
\nPhrases such as “This converstaion\u00c2\u00a0 has concluded, bye” or “Thats all I need to say [hanging up]” seem a bit harsh, small talk is irrelevant and phrases such as “oh well, I hope you have a nice day” seem sort of weak.
\nIt’s a tough line between sounding too abrupt and sounding too flakey consequently making all the endings of my phone conversations unecessarily akward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phone etiquete is a funny beast. Opening the conversation is never hard for me, it usually goes along the lines of “Hello, this is Tom from ***, how are you doing today?” “fine? oh yes, thats nice, I’m feeling rather brilliant myself… now [that the phone courting ritual is over], I’m actually calling about such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}