Sentences with phrase «calls like people»

Call area pet stores and ask them to keep their ears open for strange telephone calls like people asking «what does a parrot eat» or «what kind of bird looks like this».

Not exact matches

The results might give a boost to the legions of people who struggle to follow the advice of the likes of Branson (a hefty 56 percent of those 23andMe queried called themselves night owls).

TaskUs, which boasts the tagline «ridiculously good outsourcing,» now employs 5,600 people in the Philippines who perform tasks such as flagging inappropriate content on anonymous social apps like Whisper, photo retouching, online research, and customer service calls.

People with high solo skills and poor in social skills behave like so - called introverts.

People high in social skills and poor in solo skills behave like so - called extroverts.

However, sustained engagement on issues of equity and inclusion, activities that place participants in the situations that oppressed people experience (what I call «addressing the empathy gap»), and setting goals — much like the one Starbucks envisioned a decade ago regarding pay equity — are some examples of evidence - based best practices.

Drugstore brand Black Opal is beginning to attract more and more attention, including endorsements from popular YouTubers like Nyma Tang and Jackie Aina, who called it one of the «best foundations for people of color.»

«And then if people have to go through an intense period like shipping a product or meeting a deadline, they take what we call thrive days.

«It's great to have people supporting you, but it's also great to have people call you out when they know you're doing something you don't want to do or not acting completely like yourself.»

Some people might call a robot that can perform duties like directing customers to items a «job killer.»

With the new Echo that features a screen, users have the options to voice call, video call or «drop in» — which lets users instantly connect with the person they are calling if they enable «drop in» permission (kind of like an intercom).

He tried something he calls «meshing» — meetings that brought together people who he thought should be connected in the workplace, but weren't, like the two supervisors who separately oversaw the company's call centres in Cambridge and the Dominican Republic.

The narrative transportation theory, as it's called, states that people may feel like they have been teleported to the world of their character in a story they can identify with.

That's because, as he explains in more detail on an October episode of his show, when you're stuck at your desk, «you're getting a lot of stimuli that you didn't ask for — like other people's conversations and phone calls.

Some of the experiences people started sharing were harrowing, like the time one user said he actually had the cops called on him when the neighbor mistook him for a burglar.

Just as Snapchat has what it calls «filters» that users can add to their photos and videos — making themselves look like cartoon animals, for example, or producing virtual rainbows that pour out of a person's mouth — Facebook's Camera also has filters, or «lenses.»

They may not understand what it's actually like to be in the shoes of the people they're asked to call on.

Sure, Twitter and Facebook can tell you what's trending, but I'm really liking this new app called Read It For Me, which will match you with a person who has read the top 100 articles, blogs, and listicles and narrowed down everything to three must - reads based on your interests, plus a bonus longread for the commute home.

Today games are everywhere at Pace, though some of what Pace people call «games» might go under a rubric like «team - based continuous improvement» elsewhere.

Messenger has had video calling since 2015, but that feature is a bit bulky and requires that the person you are calling accept the call, much like Apple's FaceTime and Google Duo, which was released last month.

Texting was invented for people who don't like to make phone calls.

In a quarterly - earnings call on Wednesday, Penegor said that the presidential election is weighing on consumer sentiment and, in turn, people are spending less at restaurants like Wendy's.

A lot of contractors with call them «butts in chairs» (but I won't allow our employees to refer to people like that).

«There were 9 people at that table... So you can ask them... Steve likes to go on rants... HE called the president an asshole... that is a fact,» Clooney said in a statement about the verbal altercation that occurred at a restaurant inside Wynn's Encore hotel.

That makes Justin what I like to call an «and»: a person who has worked really hard to become highly accomplished at one thing, but also highly accomplished at that, and that, and that.

The Uberconference app has large, brightly - colored buttons with labels like «evict» (remove a person from a call) and «earmuff» (mute the sound for one or more participants).

Humble people like Swift display what Robert Greenleaf calls servant leadership; they use their positions of power to advance the interests of all.

«I've done this before, you're not a good fit, you don't like it, here is a list of ten people who have called in the last two weeks other people in the company, go call them and find yourself a new job.»

When people call certain service companies — realtors, pest control, movers and the like — they are essentially dialing 911.

And in his essential book Give and Take, Wharton School professor Adam Grant shows that people like Swift who are inclusive and giving end up being more prosperous than those who are what Grant calls «takers.»

Observable Networks specializes in a security technique called endpoint modeling that helps companies track how people use devices like smartphones that are connected to corporate networks.

Donna Fluss, president of DMG Consulting, says that the best way to keep costs down in a people - heavy organization like a call centre is through effective use of workforce technology software, which can help quickly identify a customer's needs and deliver the call to the right agent.

Just like Kazaa, Skype was a disruptive rebel — it sought to use the power of the Internet to greatly lower the cost of something that people had typically been paying through the teeth for: long - distance calls.

Especially in business - to - business industries, the buyer is usually guarded by layers and layers of people who I like to call gatekeepers (e.g. receptionists, assistants, and clerks).

If you feel like you want to go on the attack, calling people names and insulting them, take a breather.

«We'd like to promote from within, because I think there's nothing more discouraging for, say, a thousand people who work in a company for a so - called expert to be brought in from outside.

With an innovative new app for the iPhone and Droid operating systems called Bump Technology, you can literally bump your phone with another person's and instantly your contact information is transferred (including info, pictures, calendar events, and even social network connections like LinkedIn).

A little framework called Person, which helps you visualize your target customer by inputting their gender, likes, behaviors and goals in a simple - to - read layout.

After he wore them for the first time on the air, people started calling in to say that they liked the look.

(I like to call it «finding my Zen place,» although I'm one of the least Zen people you'll meet.)

And he also knew that the business he's starting, a service called Diggen to allow Web retailers to better target shoppers, was hardly about to inflame the passions of the kinds of people who donate money on sites like Kickstarter.

He called U.S. policymakers «stupid» for doing trade deals like NAFTA, saying they were bad dealmakers, conned by much smarter people.

Business organizations like the Chamber of Commerce have called for immigration reform, saying immigrants are good for the economy while advocating a tough but «fair process for undocumented people who are living in our country today to earn a legal status.»

The swindle goes like this, according to the Federal Communications Commission: You receive a phone call, and the person on the other end of the line asks, «Can you hear me?»

I once got a sales call from a person who said, «would you like to make more money?

If you are like most people, the transition will be a real wake - up call, and you may suddenly find yourself in panic mode, struggling to meet payroll and cover expenses.

I have made the mistake of overlooking emails and calls that were too gruff or more like a stream - of - consciousness only to find out that that's the way that person behaved when representing my business.

According to a story in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, his reasoning goes like this: «Call me opportunistic; I thought I could get better people with less competition because we were willing to understand the skills and capabilities that many of these women had.»

«People like Amazon Business are pulling away some business from our core customer base,» CFO Steve Hare conceded on a conference call with investors and Wall Street analysts.

Just like older people, so - called digital natives are terrible at multitasking and mostly use tech to mindlessly absorb information.