PostHeaderIcon Cell Phone Etiquette

Okay, I admit, I was pushed over the edge. This morning, reading the newspaper, I learned that it is a major airline to use the phone, it allows while taxiing to the gate! Can you imagine what it will look like?
For two years I thought about doing a seminar on cell phone etiquette. At that time, I was sitting in a restaurant and waited for my dinner companion to arrive. There were two men in the cab next to me with a quiet lunch when we went to their mobile phones.

They were not only the fact that I was blindly behind them, they sat on the phone for half an hour talking. Guess what? You are negotiating a major contract that we are.
It was impossible not to hear the terms of the agreement, which would give them when things go wrong. Hmmmm. Imagine, I had one of their competitors. How could they know, perhaps I was not? Incidentally, how they know the person on the stand the other side is not as competition or relative to their competitors?

Yes, I have a cell phone. Now I can not imagine me without problem. But not even my daughters, my mobile number. You know, my home answering often and they know that I return them.
My friends, at first it was a game to see who could be the first to get the number. One of them came to keep him under his name, scoring only. Recently, they laughed and said many good things he did, and you never answer anyway. It’s true I do not.

If I leave, I am traveling. I do not want to be in constant contact with my phone. One woman told me recently that I have for my clients. Of course you need, but this does not mean they have immediate access to. If necessary, I will stay close to my office. I learned long ago clients are flexible and realize that I have a life too. In fact, it’s probably one of the things I was most surprised to be self-employed. I thought I’d be available if the customer wanted to make an appointment. Instead, they work wonders on the opening of my schedule.

Now about how you finally organized a lunch meeting with someone you find interesting, perhaps a business partner or just a friend you want to hit. You start the conversation and their cell phone rings. They dig the phone and say: Let me just see who it is. You look and say that I have let this go too. Ten minutes later the phone rings and it is a call, they decided to get them to have. Five minutes Goes By “(How did you feel they are sitting there as one?) And they hang on and say I am sorry that such and such was. As if I give a rip?. Then they say, go off, give me the phone. Ahh, peace at last.

What people do not seem to understand that in most cases, people who can hear here and there, just what you say. Recently at an airport two colleagues were talking about another colleague, sought in unflattering terms. What difference does it make? What would you say if I told you they used names and the other on the phone with me, wearing a T-shirt proudly displaying the logo of his company?

Then there’s me a while before we start this call, too.
Remember, we had a total of half an hour to operate our business. Call you at home, the child asks for something for the adults is very tense and an argument followed. You’re sitting there “captured” in the conversation. You colleague is upset when you start the conversation, it takes time to get on track and you need to build a positive relationship before you can hear again.

Finally, you’re standing. The person turns right in front of you, and you can tell his mind is not on driving?. The mobile phone is in his ear. More than once I caught my breath as the car barely brushed by me. They focused not on swinging more to do after the transition.

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