people being rude on cell phones

[angel607]

i don't realize if people ever realize how they are being rude to people on cell phones but as I was getting returns a guy asked me for help with strollers the cheap $14.00-$19.00 kind. he asked how much was the weight limit and I said 40 pounds. he went to call his wife to see if that was good for his son. his wife was not home so he talked to some other people. he ended up going into the next isle still talking which went on for five minutes. I couldn't take it because we were slammed with returns and I was standing there doing nothing so I left. I know people do this everywhere but I wish they would realize employes have a lot to do and don't have the time to stand there waiting for their conversation to end. this has happened more then once to me. another pet peeve is teenagers who can't be quiet in a movie theater. I went to see the Katy perry movie today and these teenagers would not stop talking.

[Phil]

That's how its become.

We have the same problem here. I mentioned a lot of times that our foreman Brian has told our crew that 'anybody who serves a purpose at this hour is either sleeping or working so if you're texting someone who is up at this hour and not at work they're not productive.


I realize that's a bit of a generalization but there's some truth there too.

The phone has their internet, facebook, text even movies and games. Its possible that soon work places are going to have to make employees check their phones in at the door.

[Classicblast]

You should tell your foreman my suggestion. That only you and him need to have your phones turned on at work. You can bend that rule for the others only when exceptions to the rule need to be made otherwise they don't get to have theirs turned on.

From what you have mentioned about work it seems as if they higher ups contact either Brian the foreman or you and the rest are mostly just a labor crew. So if that's the way it is, you two would be the only ones who need to have their phones turned on during work hours.

[Phil]

That's where we're heading soon. Its not just our department the groups nationally are having a workers distracted by their phone issue.

[angel607]

i don't understand people who can't go two minutes without their phone. I herd about new jersey you get fined for texting and walking because people have texted while walking across the street and ended up getting hit by a car. people risks their jobs texting while at work. I have to walk around a big group of teenagers because they are facebooking on their phones saying omg I can't believe he liked my photo. it annoys me so much.

[Classicblast]

I know too much of that. Can't pay attention to detail even long enough to not let their phone distract them.

[Phil]

It seems more and more having to tell younger people especially, but others too to 'put that damn thing down and pay attention to the matter at hand.'

Then most of them are tied to the internet with facebook, myspace, twitter or some other net work forum so they can spread their drama to hundreds of people in a matter of seconds.

[Classicblast]

The phone is slowly becoming the pocket everything and by the way it has a phone instead of the calling device.

[Jason O'Lewa]

I like my phone because I can play games in the car when we go somewhere or when we are in line at the movies and stuff it makes it less boring.

I have had it taken away for the night if I use it when its time to be doing something else though.

[Classicblast]

Well, its good to see a few parents still believe there need to be rules and that its important to abide by them.

[Phil]

For sure. When you think someone namely Jason is with the discussion and his head is bowed not in prayer but to read his phone screen he needs to be reminded that there is a here and now. Its wonderful what the phones and I pads can do but they can't be allowed to absorb your life.

Its probably a lot like how television took over in the 1950s and never changed it continues to this day.



Does anybody ever spend a day or an evening without tv and internet? I often wonder how people stayed entertained in the years before tv. My parents would discuss radio programs, I guess I can understand that too but there was a time before radio. Was it books? Story telling? games? What did people do? I often wonder.

[Phil]

I'll be headed for Cincinnati tonight and be gone most of the week. I will have a smart phone and a laptop so I'll probably be able to post anyway.

[Classicblast]

I had a checkout clerk today I couldn't even get attention because of the stupid phone. Its like you're at work and I am a customer pay attention idiot.

[Beangirl]

At our wal mart cell phones are banned from the sales floor and in the back room.It makes associates seem lazy if they are sending texts while working. They still do it though.

[Classicblast]

I have to say that cell phones have become the one piece pocket tool though. I check weather and news and sports stats with mine. When I first started traveling and playing ball on the road there might have been a very few cell phones out there but I was in my 2nd or third season before I got a cell and then it was a bulky Motorola flip phone, but it took calls.

[Phil]

That's all my 1st phone was. I also worked my job before anybody carried cell phones. A few guys had car phones but I didn't. There's or there were service phones that you needed a key to open the box and get the receiver out. But other times when needed I guess we always found a payphone.

But like you said the cell has kind of become a do all. In fact phonewise it might not be as good as the last kind I had but you can look up things online. That's also been the downfall of some of our guys who text all night though.