[Nimby]

Why isn't there a foolproof "I'm in a meeting" button to switch off a mobile phone?

I am sick to death of interviews, conversations, meetings, appointments, even queues at the supermarket, court cases and major musical events being interrupted by someone who places their private communications just above god's own.

No driver is properly dressed without a hand welded to the other ear as they swerve back and forth across the double white lines!

Is your sense of vital self importance so all consuming in this vast universe?

So someone is ringing you.. so what?

[Fusewire]

Tis the season to be jolly tra la la la la - la la la la.



Chill - it's only a phone, personally I manage to live quite happily without a mobile but many are dependant on them.

Show them some pity.

Merry christmas by the way.

[Steven]

Originally Posted by Nimby

Why isn't there a foolproof "I'm in a meeting" button to switch off a mobile phone?

There is the choice of the power button or silent mode, which is good as, as you won't know if you have a txt or call unless you are looking at the thing

[Pat_C]

I find that silent mode with vibrate on is a good compromise. If I forget then rejecting the call and sending it to voicemail works too. It annoys me intensely that some people will answer their mobile while you're talking to them. It's like they are allowing someone to barge in and interrupt.

And don't get me started on people who can't walk around a supermarket without discussing the shallow trivialities of their lives on a mobile.

[njp]

Originally Posted by Pat_C

And don't get me started on people who can't walk around a supermarket without discussing the shallow trivialities of their lives on a mobile.

Especially if they're using (or pretending to use) hands-free kit. I always assume that they are completely mad and battling with their inner demons.

[Pat_C]

Originally Posted by njp

Especially if they're using (or pretending to use) hands-free kit. I always assume that they are completely mad and battling with their inner demons.

People who walk around supermarkets talking on bluetooth headsets really do need to understand how stupid and pathetic they look.

[itsamac]

My last workplace tried to introduce meeting ettiquette but with too many egos, it didn't really last long. I was all for it. One of the rules was to switch off the phone in a meeting and not just place it on silent. This was to avoid not just taking calls but also prevent those that are tempted to sit there reading emails on their blackberries.

Most American style phones (e.g. iPhone, Treo, etc) have a ringer a switch which puts them on silent.

[kendoll]

Originally Posted by Nimby

Why isn't there a foolproof "I'm in a meeting" button to switch off a mobile phone?

I am sick to death of interviews, conversations, meetings, appointments, even queues at the supermarket, court cases and major musical events being interrupted by someone who places their private communications just above god's own.

No driver is properly dressed without a hand welded to the other ear as they swerve back and forth across the double white lines!

Is your sense of vital self importance so all consuming in this vast universe?

So someone is ringing you.. so what?

Get one of those signal jammers for your office (or car ) like they have at cinemas in the states. Just turn it on at meetings, or when you drive past someone not using their hands free.

[Daddy k]

no the worse trend im beginning to see is people walking around talking on there mobile with it on speaker phone,

i think its the youth of today watching all those ghetto gangster music videos etc and they think its cool to use a phone like that!

what they forget however is in those movies they use their phone like that as theyre not using the normal voice call theyre using PTT or in full: push to talk (a walkie talkie/one ddirection at a time way of talking thats sent as data)

its massive in the states, and thats what theyre doing, using PTT.


it just annoysme to see a little 50 cent wanabe, sorry make that 50 pence walking with there arm out at a silly angle holding there phone at another silly angle shouting down the phone while its on loudspeaker in the middle of town lol