We have a hot desk system but it’s blocked into teams. However, a flood took out 70 hot desks so there have been non-team members in our area.
Earlier someone was away from the desk diagonal to me and their phone kept being called. I have no idea what kind of crazy person was on the other end thinking if they kept ringing for over a minute they’d get an answer, but for whatever reason, the phone did not go to voice mail.
Therefore I went over and dropped the volume to zero.
Now the woman is back at her desk and I don’t know her.
Do I just leave it as is or do I tell her I turned her phone down? Not sure I can do the latter without seeming like a precious arsehole.
Why are you going to look like a prick? It’s not her fault someone was ringing her phone constantly when she wasn’t there is it??
Just say “I had to mute your phone because someone kept ringing it and wouldn’t hang up, sorry”. You’re going to look like more of a prick if she looks down at her phone and sees x missed calls and goes “oh - who turned my phone off?”.
The way the phones work: they keep settings outside of your profile for volume levels. Or maybe. No one understands them. They are fucking weird phones.