While striving to get through my continuing education credits for my license, it has become very apparent that our cell phone rule our lives (not to mention our business)!
Most of my classemates can't make it, 10 minutes into the class, before you see them grab their phone and look at the screen. I explain to all my active clients that will be in class from such and such a time till such and such a time. Please leave me a detailed message and I will get back to you during a break with the answer. Then I shut off my ringer and proceed to learn. My clients and associates understand that they're very important and I will get back to them in a timely manner.
I think the worst case scenarios are in a crowded classroom, when somebody's cell phone rings and they try to ignore it. It seems that it's always one of those cutesy rings that can't be ignored. The instructor usually has to stop while everyone looks towards where the sound is coming from. Come on people, cell phones have been around for about 10 years in everyday use and we all know how to shut off the ringer.
After the third interruption in my last class, the instructor pleaded with the class, if for some reason they have to take a call to please step out and take it in the hallway outside the classroom. Not 10 minutes later someone else's phone rang and instead of taking their whole purse out of the classroom they dug through until they found their phone and then answered it. I couldn't believe it.
How do you feel about cell phone etiquette or the lack of such?
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