Ignorant Cell Phone Usage (Cell Phone Etiquette)

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#1
Is it just me or have people turned much more ignorant lately?

When did it become OK to stop in the middle of a conversation you are having with me to answer your cell phone?

If I am talking with you, I will not answer my phone. It has call answer after all. You will have my full and undivided attention while we are talking.

I think my mother taught me that basic human skill by example.

When did it change?

I often asked "who died?" after they hang up. Based on the 1/2 conversation I'm forced to listen to I'd say 95% of the time the call was not important.

Can I just walk away? The conversation must be over - right?

Can I slap the next person who does it to me silly?

Yikes - they really got my goat today.
 
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harry

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#3
Generally, this problem is worse in Asia. Partly because we are generally lower down the rung in 'Maslow's Heirachy' of needs and partly due to cultural factors.
 
#4
I hate sitting at an airport terminal gate and having to sit in someone's sales meeting, when I wasn't sent an agenda and don't know what my contribution to the discussion is!

But what really worries me about cell/mobile phone use is the number of people (generally young women) who now drive their cars as mobile phone boxes - as they move off they start their calls and even have the phone held to their ears with their shoulders.......:mg:

I wish phones still had a cord attached........
 

Wes Bucey

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#5
Is it just me or have people turned much more ignorant lately?

When did it become OK to stop in the middle of a conversation you are having with me to answer your cell phone?

If I am talking with you, I will not answer my phone. It has call answer after all. You will have my full and undivided attention while we are talking.

I think my mother taught me that basic human skill by example.

When did it change?

I often asked "who died?" after they hang up. Based on the 1/2 conversation I'm forced to listen to I'd say 95% of the time the call was not important.

Can I just walk away? The conversation must be over - right?

Can I slap the next person who does it to me silly?

Yikes - they really got my goat today.
FWIW:
When I was a boy, not everyone had even one phone in the house, let alone a separate walk-around number for each member of the household. When the phone rang, it was deemed to be important enough an occasion for EVERYONE present to stop in mid stride until the nature of the call was determined. Long distance calls were occasions to turn off radios (no TV back then) until the disaster or celebration had been communicated to everyone present.

Today, calls are much more frequent and infinitely more trivial. Status of people present in person relative to the phone owner (call recipient) make a decided difference in whether the call recipient is rude or ignorant in diverting attention to the call.

When a boss does it to a subordinate, it is rude. When a subordinate does it to a boss, it is either ignorant or suicidal (pick one.)

In my personal experience, I am mollified if the call recipient says something to the effect,
"Please excuse me, I'm expecting an important business/personal call. It shouldn't take more than a minute."
or
"Whoa! This is from my wife! I hope she isn't stranded somewhere or that the kids are OK."

Of course, that means the person carrying the cell phone has to lay down some ground rules to the folks with his number - customers and bosses excepted;)
Thirty years ago, I had someone screening my land line calls and an interruption during a conversation meant my screener felt it was important enough to interrupt rather than to take a message to call back or to divert the call to someone else in our organization.

Alas, today, hardly anyone below the rank of POTUS has anyone screening ALL incoming calls.



POTUS = President of the United States
 
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Geoff Withnell

#6
When I was a Supplier QE for one of the (then) Big Three automakers, I spent a lot of time in meetings at supllier facilities with the suplliers leadership. I was representing a significant customer, and if they weren't in trouble i would not have been there. I still found it necessary to use a strategy to limit cell phone interruptions. At the beginning of the meeting, I would take out my cell phone, turn it off, and state "I have nothing more important to do right now than work on this issue." It seemed to help.

Geoff Withnell
 

Randy

Super Moderator
#7
I don't even turn my phone on unless absolutely necessary. I'll check for messages and reply, but it is not attached to my head. My cell is a tool, not a way of life.

It really amazes me when I see people "having" to take or make calls at 7:00AM at the airport. Who are they talking to? Surely it isn't business. What did they do before the cell, hold everything in and then explode?

Blue-tooths are even worse.

Cells in restaurants

Cells in elevators

Cells in restrooms

Cells on escalators

Cells on shuttles

Cells, cells, cells...................

Turn the F.....g things off already!
 
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somerqc

#8
I do have a cell phone AND a bluetooth headset.

However, the only time I use my headset is when driving (not by law, just for safety). I have the phone set to automatically answer the call after 2 rings (again, don't need to take my eyes off of the road).

It usually is relatively important as my wife can sometimes be very late at work and when I am driving home is usually the time she finds out if she will be on time. This lets me know whether I need to take care of other things (re: feed my daughter before mommy gets home, etc.).

Other than that, I usually leave it in a coat pocket or on the kitchen counter charging.

I cannot understand what is so important that you must have a 20 minute conversation while driving....:bonk:

I do try to figure out how my mother-in-law and wife managed before cell phones...they must talk to each other 3 times a day...what happens in a day that you must talk to someone that much each and every day????? I will be married for 5 years this year and it still goes on to this day.

Anyway, I feel better now.
 

ScottK

Not out of the crisis
Staff member
Super Moderator
#9
I always enjoy seeing police driving down the highway at 90mph yapping on a cell phone. Not their radio - a cell phone.

Besides people interrupting conversations the most annying thing for me is people yapping on the phone at the gym.
There one woman who goes to my gym in the evenings... she walks in yapping, comes out of the locker room yapping, climbs on the treadmill yapping, does her workout yapping, goes back into the locker room yapping, comes out and leaves yapping.

And then she has the nerve to cast an annoyed glance at anyone who turns up the TV volume.
 

BradM

Staff member
Admin
#10
Besides people interrupting conversations the most annying thing for me is people yapping on the phone at the gym.
There one woman who goes to my gym in the evenings... she walks in yapping, comes out of the locker room yapping, climbs on the treadmill yapping, does her workout yapping, goes back into the locker room yapping, comes out and leaves yapping.
Well, at least her vocal cords are getting a thorough workout!:tg::lmao:
 
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