For example, I'm working with a customer who wants help with her computer. She is asking me an indepth question, I'm trying to gather information so I can help her and her phone rings, "Oh wait a minute." It's like duh! Talk about shampoo on your own time! Then she gets pissed because I go off and do something else.
BTW, this happens all the time. I am a computer tech in an electronics store.
2006-10-01 14:58:44 · 9 answers · asked by a_poor_misguided_soul 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
Cell phones in general seem to spark rude behavior more than anything else I encounter.
General etiquette already covers the use of cell phones, but most people just ignore it.
I agree -- you are under no obligation to stay at the beck and call of a customer who, if you will, is at the beck and call of his cell phone. If his shopping needs were his first priority, he wouldn't answer his phone, plain and simple.
Keep up the rebellion! :D
2006-10-01 17:05:43 · answer #1 · answered by ReniHana 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there should be ettiquette but just like everything else in the world, manners went out the window. EVEN the LAW of not driving while holding a phone is ignored.
Just keep doing what you do and walk away. No one will be able to blame you. You are not the one that did anything wrong.
Oh, and I was finding myself falling into that habit also, which is too easy. I MAKE myself not answer it.. I just glance at it.. and call the person back when I am finally free. Same goes for when I'm driving.
2006-10-01 15:11:07 · answer #2 · answered by Valeria 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you have done the right thing. If your time is valuable and are making the effort to help someone, even as part of your job, who then decides to take a call (rather than brush it off with a "Can I call you back?"), your life should not be part of the deal put on hold.
We sometimes need to be flexible - especially if the person has apologized (in other words, they know what the right thing to do is) or the call was very brief, otherwise you might have seven or eight half-started jobs on the go, which makes your life harder too.
2006-10-01 15:07:48 · answer #3 · answered by Bart S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, in terms of laws no, in terms of people being smart and polite, no, it doesn't seem like the general public is up for that.
I personally don't have a cell phone. But, I do think people are annoying with them.
2006-10-01 15:07:37 · answer #4 · answered by Beth M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There needs to be something it gets so out of hand at times no using when driving needs to be the first rule what ever happened to the just for emergencerys not for when ever i feel lik eit
2006-10-01 15:08:32 · answer #5 · answered by babyboo197703820 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These people are already rude. Etiquette is a foreign concept to them. Your idea is good, but impossible to implement in a world full of jackasses.
2006-10-01 16:03:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you, it's very rude. I find it especially aggravating at restaurants or something when the person is trying to take someone's order.
2006-10-01 15:01:39 · answer #7 · answered by schaianne 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'll agree, that's rude. there is a right time and place for cell phone usage.
2006-10-01 15:03:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
sure there should be some lessons that come with it but of course people now adays dont give a rats butt.
2006-10-01 15:05:10 · answer #9 · answered by CWB 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋