“Guys how do we get people under 40 to stop making reservations without saying that out loud.”
Or: "how do we discriminate who we give reservations to without any official policy."
I am 40, and I still hate that. But I'm also really far from teenager shyness or "not knowing better", so I would just wait until they pick up and say how annoyed I am and how they can go f themselves with that practice. If several people would do that every day, they would reconsider how they take bookings.
I was accustomed to google maps opening the phone and showing a number when I clicked on call. Yesterday it skipped that step and went straight to calling.
So they are now totally disabling copying phone numbers, I discovered today (maybe on Google Search)
That should queue them up quite nicely to follow in Yelp's footsteps!
Yelp waits for a new business to receive a bunch of phone calls. Then they call the business owner and congratulate them on the 300 calls or however many customers made by tapping the phone number on Yelp. Then comes the extortion. Allegedly, that last part, according to a college professor. Who surely just had it out for Yelp which is why he would make that up 😉
heh, actually corroborated by Billion Dollar Bully (documentary). Need all the bullies we can get, good luck Google!
Edit: either pay Yelp for advertising or get deranked, is the deal
I had roughly the same thing happen just yesterday. I was clicking on a phone number field assuming it would pop up something letting me copy the number so I could paste it elsewhere. Instead it started calling.
NO! BAD PHONE!
People just showing up on my screen has been my nightmare since The Jetsons.
Has anyone else ever had this happen? Is this just a joke made for clicks and likes? I saw this many years ago (and likely this exact one as it's from 2019) and I thought this isn't a thing. My thought now, this isn't a thing.
Browsers are configured to pass off
tel:links by a designated handler. In Safari on Mac, the default handler is Facetime, or at least was, for a while.On a mobile phone most browsers just open the phone/dialer app to handle
tel:links. In Chrome, back when I had Google Voice, I had it configured to do Google Voice calls (including for a time, Google Hangouts as the interface for my Google Voice account).
The absolute tidal wave of anxiety that would crash over me if this happened... no thanks
You have to follow through with the call and tell them that you're not reserving specifically because of this situation.
I tried to make a reservation once, for a date with my wife.
The whole conversation was a mess of them being too damn busy, when we got there on the agreed date they had nothing in their agenda.
Never again. I'll get some movie tickets.
You tried to make a diner reservation... once in your life? And then gave up and never went to a restaurant again?
I mean, that's fine, home food is best food.
But if you ever try to make a reservation again, try and call them before rush hour starts. I'm sure they'll appreciate that a lot, and won't "forget" to actually book you in.
They opened at 4pm, i tried calling before that but no one picked up.
It was fairly new at the time so it was always busy.
new fear unlocked.
