This includes my wife, boss, several VP's, and the President of our company.
Since when did the asshole calling you automatically get priority over the 10 people standing in front of you?
The other day I was in a meeting with the VP of Technology, VP of Sales/Marketing, the company President, and a few other managers. The VP of Sales/Marketing was giving a speech/demo and his fscking brick of a cell phone kept going off. Every damn time it went off he'd stop mid-sentence, unholster this beastly device, study the LCD intently, re-holster it, and then continue speaking. It seriously got to the point where it was going off every 30 - 60 seconds. After the fifth or sixth time (and after following the aforementioned routine), he commented "sorry... someone's trying to call me".
NO FSCKING SH!T ASSHOLE!!!
Either answer the thing or COMMIT TO NOT ANSWERING IT. Either way, you have about $1,200/hour of people sitting in front of you who would very much like you to finish whatever the hell it is you're trying to say.
How damn rude is it to even LOOK at your cell phone when you're giving a presentation? WTF?
Although, I don't think this really bothered my boss (VP Tech) or the Pres... they're just as guilty. One time my boss literally had everyone who reported either directly to him or to someone who reported directly to him all in a room (about 75 people). He was doing damage control after a layoff situation. Do you think he could keep his hands off his cell phone during this time? NO. His wife (who calls him every 4 minutes anyway) kept calling about their refridgerator repair guy or whatever, and he'd sit there and hold a damn conversation with her. This happened three times over the course of said one hour meeting.
I also meet with him one on one a couple times a week. It's a bitch getting through these meetings, too, because his damn phone is constantly going off. Of course, it's always his wife.
Then there's my wife. Same affliction. She could be changing our daughter's diaper and be covered in sh!t from head to toe, but if that phone rings on the other side of the house, she'll drop everything (sh1tstained daughter included) to make sure she answers the call. What's worse is that she gets home with the kids at 6:00. From 6:00 - 6:30, she and I are making dinner, taking care of the kids, catching up, etc. NATURALLY, this is precisely when her brain-damaged sister (true story) or emotionally dependent mother calls EVERY. SINGLE. FIZZUCKING. NIGHT!!!!!!!
God forbid people let themselves fall "out of touch" for a couple minutes here and there. Yes, I have a cell phone, too. But if I'm talking to someone then I don't even look to see who's calling. At the first opportunity, I'll glance to see who it was and call them back ASAP, but the person with whom I'm speaking deserves my attention. Well, they may not deserve it because I'm usually talking to one of these offenders, but still... it's a matter of basic respect for others. If I'm talking to my wife and my boss calls, he can wait. If I'm talking to my boss and my wife calls, she can wait. I don't dynamically prioritize between who's in front of me and who's on the phone.
If you're in front of me, you win.
Yes, there are things called "emergencies":
Repeated calls from my wife
My wife understands my disdain for cell phones. She knows not to hound the fsck out of me. If I don't answer your first call, then I'm busy. Therefore, I know that if I get repeated calls from her, something is up.
Repeated calls from my boss
Sorry... no such thing as a "work emergency". If I recognized "work emergencies", I'd be a doctor. There's nothing going on after work and on the weekends that can't wait. Even if there was, I could honestly give a sh!t about it.
So, do you own a cell phone or does a cell phone pwn you?
Next week: Idiots who spend more time managing their PDA's than the time the PDA allegedly saves them.
Since when did the asshole calling you automatically get priority over the 10 people standing in front of you?
The other day I was in a meeting with the VP of Technology, VP of Sales/Marketing, the company President, and a few other managers. The VP of Sales/Marketing was giving a speech/demo and his fscking brick of a cell phone kept going off. Every damn time it went off he'd stop mid-sentence, unholster this beastly device, study the LCD intently, re-holster it, and then continue speaking. It seriously got to the point where it was going off every 30 - 60 seconds. After the fifth or sixth time (and after following the aforementioned routine), he commented "sorry... someone's trying to call me".
NO FSCKING SH!T ASSHOLE!!!
Either answer the thing or COMMIT TO NOT ANSWERING IT. Either way, you have about $1,200/hour of people sitting in front of you who would very much like you to finish whatever the hell it is you're trying to say.
How damn rude is it to even LOOK at your cell phone when you're giving a presentation? WTF?
Although, I don't think this really bothered my boss (VP Tech) or the Pres... they're just as guilty. One time my boss literally had everyone who reported either directly to him or to someone who reported directly to him all in a room (about 75 people). He was doing damage control after a layoff situation. Do you think he could keep his hands off his cell phone during this time? NO. His wife (who calls him every 4 minutes anyway) kept calling about their refridgerator repair guy or whatever, and he'd sit there and hold a damn conversation with her. This happened three times over the course of said one hour meeting.
I also meet with him one on one a couple times a week. It's a bitch getting through these meetings, too, because his damn phone is constantly going off. Of course, it's always his wife.
Then there's my wife. Same affliction. She could be changing our daughter's diaper and be covered in sh!t from head to toe, but if that phone rings on the other side of the house, she'll drop everything (sh1tstained daughter included) to make sure she answers the call. What's worse is that she gets home with the kids at 6:00. From 6:00 - 6:30, she and I are making dinner, taking care of the kids, catching up, etc. NATURALLY, this is precisely when her brain-damaged sister (true story) or emotionally dependent mother calls EVERY. SINGLE. FIZZUCKING. NIGHT!!!!!!!
God forbid people let themselves fall "out of touch" for a couple minutes here and there. Yes, I have a cell phone, too. But if I'm talking to someone then I don't even look to see who's calling. At the first opportunity, I'll glance to see who it was and call them back ASAP, but the person with whom I'm speaking deserves my attention. Well, they may not deserve it because I'm usually talking to one of these offenders, but still... it's a matter of basic respect for others. If I'm talking to my wife and my boss calls, he can wait. If I'm talking to my boss and my wife calls, she can wait. I don't dynamically prioritize between who's in front of me and who's on the phone.
If you're in front of me, you win.
Yes, there are things called "emergencies":
Repeated calls from my wife
My wife understands my disdain for cell phones. She knows not to hound the fsck out of me. If I don't answer your first call, then I'm busy. Therefore, I know that if I get repeated calls from her, something is up.
Repeated calls from my boss
Sorry... no such thing as a "work emergency". If I recognized "work emergencies", I'd be a doctor. There's nothing going on after work and on the weekends that can't wait. Even if there was, I could honestly give a sh!t about it.
So, do you own a cell phone or does a cell phone pwn you?
Next week: Idiots who spend more time managing their PDA's than the time the PDA allegedly saves them.
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