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The original was posted on /r/ireland by /u/gpd94 on 2023-08-24 14:56:03+00:00.
I work where I have to answer the phone occasionally and take numbers of people to pass on messages and a lot of Dublin people leave out the 01 when giving you the phone number,
e.g.
their phone number will be 01-123456,
and on the phone they will give it out as 123456.
which would be only usable by Dublin landlines, not everyone lives in Dublin (I live in kildare for example I can't call you without the 01).
surely they would have learnt it off including the 01, so do they do it just to annoy people?
Drives me nuts.
Edit: I'm talking work landlines here, I know you haven't used a home landline in years, I'm not talking about those.
Most offices still use landlines
Also my office is in Kildare. They called my number, 045, so they would have known I wasn't in Dublin.