It didn’t use to be. I’ve been making phone calls since I was a kid (more than 40 years ago) so no, I don’t think the phones themselves are the culprits.
They’ve definitely become worse with automation stuff like menus where you have to type a lot numbers and say stupid things for 30 minutes until you finally get a human. If you forgot to mention anything you’ll never get the same person on the phone and you have to start over…
It’s so common there’s clearly something wrong with phones. Maybe they’re cursed?
Over ten years ago I had to make a phone call to a foreign country to book a hotel, and my heart rate was as if I’d just sprinted somewhere
It didn’t use to be. I’ve been making phone calls since I was a kid (more than 40 years ago) so no, I don’t think the phones themselves are the culprits.
They’ve definitely become worse with automation stuff like menus where you have to type a lot numbers and say stupid things for 30 minutes until you finally get a human. If you forgot to mention anything you’ll never get the same person on the phone and you have to start over…
Cursed, I’m telling you.