Phone Etiquette *rant*

I swear they should just drop sex ed in school (we all knew about it WAY before ninth grade anyway) and teach a much more important topic... cell phone etiquette.

There are these two girls that I swear have no concept of the world around them. Our office at work is bursting with people. We are suppose to only have eight in this room and we have eleven students. So we are packed in here tight.

Both of the girls have blaring ring tones that can be heard in the next building. It's not like they ever leave their phones because they also ring during lecture. Fine I can live with it. An interruption here and there won't kill anyone.

But this is where I get annoyed. They talk really loudly and for an hour at a time in the office. I swear I would do an intervention but it has been done before and they still don't understand why we get upset. Yet they stay planted in the office and keep yapping away.

Until today, I get a call and like usual I take it in the hall away from the office. Well one of the girls I guess got the hint because when she got a call, she left the office and took her call in the hallway right next to me shouting in her phone so loud my mom could not even hear me over her!

I wonder if their ring tones can be heard in the -20C freezer? :csrshifty:

Anyone else have this problem?

Why hint? Just flat out ask them to keep it down. It's interfering with your ability to do your job. If they don't cooperate, then raise it up to your manager.

Originally Posted by hijinio

Why hint? Just flat out ask them to keep it down. It's interfering with your ability to do your job. If they don't cooperate, then raise it up to your manager.

I thought on the job you just go straight to your manager if there's any problem with anything...

I am a graduate research assistant. There is no manager and my professor does not like dealing with conflict.

But my co-worker just put the smack down on one of the girls!! She told her that cells phones were made so you don't have to yell all the way to other side of campus to talk.

This actually happened to me at the movie theatre recently.

Midway through, someone who didn't even pay to see the movie, walked in and started loudly talking on his cellphone. I was like WTH? How are these people not embarrassed?

Originally Posted by Mer-Man's Minion

I thought on the job you just go straight to your manager if there's any problem with anything...

Yes, but that's if you go by the book. Sometimes, it's better to talk to (not yell at) the person first before starting up a political mess by involving a manager.

At work I usually have my phone on vibrate. I have my own office so I don't need to go out in the hallway to speak to anyone. Ringtones do not bother me too. I like to hear them. Same with ringback/answerback tones!

I never answer a phone call in the movie theater but I will check it when it vibrates and answer text messages. Sorry!

Someone should tell these girls that it's no the 1890s and you don't have to yell into a phone to be heard. The signal is either there or it isn't.

DUMB DUMB DUMB

maybe they're already going deaf because of their ipods and loud phones... eesh. wouldn't surprise me, actually. i have a feeling this and the next generations are going to have a lot more trouble with hearing loss.

Originally Posted by LadyAngora

maybe they're already going deaf because of their ipods and loud phones... eesh. wouldn't surprise me, actually. i have a feeling this and the next generations are going to have a lot more trouble with hearing loss.

That actually *may* be a possibility... though, slim. There was this REAL nice guy at work, down the hall from me, but he was the LOUDEST guy ever on the phone. And he was ALWAYS on the phone because it was part of his job. Anyhow, my coworker asked him to keep it down, and it turns out that he IS partially deaf due to surgery on (or in?) his ears due to excessive surfing. Go figure... Anyhow, he was totally cool about things and tried to keep it down.