Now that I'm mostly editing instead of reporting, I can be fairly sure that any call from a phone number I don't recognize is from a PR person. The vast majority are calling about things I'll never cover, so I usually just let them talk to my voicemail. While it's ringing, though, I always google the phone number to check. Usually the phone numbers belong to generic PR firms, but today? I got a call from the U.S. Canola Association. Awesome. Something to do with health benefits of canola oil.
My rule of thumb is, never answer a call from 201 or 973, because only PR people call from Northern New Jersey. I'm starting to wonder if those four counties are populated only by PR people. I bet it's like a vast PR nature preserve, where the calls of communication specialists echo through the wild.
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I do exactly the same thing here at work, although I haven't been able to generalize specific area code/type of caller relationships.
My phone number comes up as "blocked" when I call folks, which sometimes causes problems when I call my friends. No wonder nobody takes my calls.
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