If you're sitting at a damn desk all day next to a damn telephone, what's the damn point in having your damn friends call you on your damn cellphone?

Sometimes I wish I were Amish, but I saw a documentary lately where they said most Amish kids own cellphones, so I don't know, maybe I'll go live with wolves or monkeys or something. Damn monkeys probably got 'em too...

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just got off my cell phone here at work. it was long distance, and i didn't want to charge it to my calling card.

I always forget to turn my celphone off in the morning and I get sooo embarrased when it rings at work

and then I wonder to myself "why are my friends calling me in the middle of the day when the know i'm working AND know my work number AND know that it's okay for me to be called at work."

irresistibleb1tch said:

can't you just charge it to the company??? say it was a "business" call?

Nobody remembers numbers anymore, punch in the name and it rings. We do it because we are a bunch of lazy arses. I like the idea of armishness too. No Org though!!!

Anxiety said:

I guess it depends on where you live. Here in Singapore, where virtually everybody has a mobile phone, most people do not give out either their home or work numbers to anybody. It costs little or nothing to take calls, and using the mobile phone means you are always contactable on a single number. If you don't want to or can't take calls then you can switch the phone off. And with the mobile there are always messages or voicemail to tell you about missed calls. So, at least here, there's no good reason to use anything other than your mobile phone. I couldn't even tell you my home phone number (only used for Internet) and have trouble remembering my work number. (not excuses for using my mobile, but indications about how little I use the others)

As for taking calls during work time, most calls are very brief, usually making a quick arrangement for lunch or drinks after work. I work unpaid overtime, so if work eats into my time then a little of my time can eat into worktime.
[This message was edited Tue Aug 19 7:33:22 PDT 2003 by sabaisabai]

Anxiety said:

Hi Anxiety What's Amish? Sounds interesting.

Have you tried raising the issue at a work meeting? Or approaching the individuals concerned? Get the feelings out of your system first and then when you speak with the people involved, you ought to have calmed down.

endorphin74 said:

i work for a nonprofit, so i'd be taking from the needy - not cool. if i worked for a large corporation, i wouldn't think twice about it...

those cellphones may piss you off, but trust me a couple of days traveling by horse and buggy will piss you off more.

sinisterpentatonic said:

You know, I can say on good authority that you'd be wrong on that count. Now, when it got to be around 10 p.m. and I wanna watch the Daily Show and all that's in the living room is a fireplace and a churn, THAT'S when I'd start getting cranky.

Anxiety said:

You'd probably miss the org too.

endorphin74 said:

EXACTLY! It happens to me at least once a week.

I never answer it, though.

The worst...the absolute WORST...is when someone in the office goes to lunch or off to a meeting and they leave their cell at their desk w/o turning it off.

There's a level in Hell for people who do this, you know.

Anxiety said:

ESPECIALLY when they've programmed the ringer on their %^*#^&T phone to play some corrupted version of a 'classic' that lasts the entire tune because they don't pick up.

XxAxX said:

People that insist on playing with their ringtones for all to hear should be forcibly removed from public transport, or killed.Either, i don't care.

i'm waiting for the 'cellphone disrupter' which should be available to the general (long suffering) public anyday now. hopefully. imagine! like a remote control you could point it at the offending phone and wipe the transmission, thereby silencing the maddening tones.

wouldn't it be grand???