I think cell phones should be banned in the workplace. In case of an emergency, you can always be reached by the phone conveniently at WORK. I get so irritated at cashiers or someone working behind a desk, sending text after text or giggling at something on their Facebook feed.
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Speaking as a cashier, I've dealt with that before. It is so annoying! The amount of times someone will sigh because they have to put down their phone to pay me is ridiculous.
shareWhen I work at the library at the circulation desk (checking out books) I hate when someone is on their cell phone. They just plop their book and library card down and keep talking. So what I started doing is waiving the person behind them ahead and ignoring the person on the phone. Libraries are a place of respect!
shareI think they should be banned, period. They're turning a generation into narcissistic simpletons.
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shareThey should be banned in public places, generally. When people in movie theatres text and talk on their cell phones, it's extremely distracting...and rude.
Israel has a system in place that causes cellphones, pagers, and beepers to jam up if people attempt to use them in a public place, such as a museum, a movie theatre, a restaurant, etc. Too bad a system like that couldn't be implemented here.
Alamo DraftHouse Cinema has a zero-tolerance policy regarding texting and talking on cellphones during a movie. It's a "three-strikes and you're out policy", where persistent offenders get booted out of the movie theatre, with no refunds of their money, or anything.
It's been awhile but it seems that when cell phones first started becoming popular there were rules.
Now that everybody basically has a computer with them wherever they go no more rules.
Maybe because even the people in charge are constantly on they're phones too?
YES! I'm the only one at work who doesn't own a smartphone. I don't carry the cell phone I do own to work. I'm at WORK, if I'm needed, you can reach me at WORK. Every manager I work with is constantly on their phone. I understand downtime or break time but not any other time.
shareI see people on the street using cell phones while in the crosswalk, not even looking where they are going. People at restaurants, man and wife or (?) glued to their cell phone, not even talking to each other. Kids as young as three years old using cell phones. People driving using them even though it is illegal. It doesn't end.
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"Seriously, though, people are not together with each other like in the past."
So true. Social media should be called anti-social media, or faux social media.
Wherever I go people are on their smartphones. Used to be people would get into conversations while, say, waiting in line for whatever. Now that rarely happens because people are glued to their phones.
Really bad when people are out to dinner with someone and instead of having conversation are too busy playing on their phones.
To TheWaitress, thankfully that's not a problem here. Never encountered it. But more often than I'd like, the person ahead of me in line is too busy on their phone to deal with the cashier, or even acknowledge his or her existence 🙄
I am the same way. Put your phones down and talk to each other. Occasionally my other half will let us sit in the lounge if there is a big game on the big screen but we still talk and hold hands. Well said Frog. Well said!
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For me it depends on the line of work. In the service industry, it's a person's job to attend to the customers, and cell phone usage in that situation would likely be considered rude. On the other hand, I used to work in an office with heavy phone usage every day - both landlines and cell devices. Someone without a working mobile phone in that environment would suffer a big loss in productivity.
shareCell phone use is prohibited in lots of environments, but the rules aren’t enforced. Even when people know about the rules, they feel entitled to ignore them, because these people are self-absorbed subhuman assholes. Subhuman? A human is civilized and socialized. These creatures are neither, and cell phones are encouraging this regression away from being a real human. Consider the example MJF gives in this topic. All the couples in the restaurant, save for he and his wife, were not really couples at all. They were two people at the same table, socially isolated from each other. How are people going to develop and practice social skills in that kind of environment? They are not. The hospitality and retail industries are STARVING for staff who have people skills. I think the smartphone is the second-biggest threat to our species, after AI.
shareNetflicks just banned looking at coworkers for more than 5 seconds, so this may happen also.
shareI turn my cell phone off when I am working or at home. I have perfectly fine landlines.
shareI still have my landline, and rarely use my cell phone except for emergencies.
shareI had to get rid of my landline, so all I have is my cell phone. Hate talking on it, so I don't use a phone much anymore.
I also have a niggling worry in the back of my head about what would happen if the towers go down.
Why did you have to get rid of your landline? You can buy them at Target. That's where I got mine. It's a Panasonic, but they also have AT&T.
shareI still have the phones, but no connection. Too expensive around here to pay for a landline and a cell, so the landline had to go.
shareI have a cell phone also, but it is a "pay-as-you-go" phone from AT&T. I didn't have to sign up and pay a monthly fee for anything.
shareHow much do you pay per month, on average? My cell phone plan is also with AT&T. It's $50 a month.
Maybe it'd be worth looking into how much a landline costs, again, but last I looked, it was too much to justify having both. Too much, period, considering how many people are going to cell-only.
With a "pay-as-you-go" phone there is no monthly charge, but it's 10 cents for each call. Initially you make a deposit of maybe $75, and the number of calls you make is deducted from that amount. If you don't use it all up at the end of the year, you can roll it over to the next year. Best idea is to contact a AT&T office if there is one near you.
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Oh yeah, I forgot about all the spam calls! I get them on my cell too, but not nearly as much as I got them on the landline.
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Yep, I'm like you. Normally a gentle, peaceful type. But what a way to put anyone in a very bad mood, constantly getting harassed throughout every single day 😬. Insult to injury that we were PAYING for the service.
Caller ID didn't help. I don't know the numbers of everyone who calls me.
With my cell I only get a spam call every 3-4 days, and it's easy to tell that's what it is early on, so I can hang up within a few seconds and go about my day.
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The problem is the numbers are forever changing, so it's a waste of time to block them; they're throwaway. That's been my experience. You've fared better than I.
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