Don`t you just hate cell phones in public?

Question

People are really possessed by their phones,I work in Walmart and you will see people everywhere with phones stuck to their ear and when they come through my checkout(I`m a cashier)they are so rude,they won`t look at you,speak to you or anything,they mindlessly throw their stuff on the belt and all the time they are yakking on that stupid phone and refuse to give anybody any kind of greeting or acknowledge that you might exist at all! I just think people don`t have any manners at all concerning cell phones,do you?

Dee and Mr Taco,I agree with you!!!!!!

Weeotch,maybe you have seen some rude cashiers,but with me that`s not the case,I try very hard to be friendly and I usually like people and try to get to know the customers going through.I know what your saying because I have had bad cashiers,that`s why I try hard to not be that way!

I can tell,there are a few answerers on here that are phone junkies!

Answer 1

The first time that happened to me I was so upset. It was a young adolescent male who came through the line profile style talking away, slid his card and grabbed his bag and left. No hello, good bye...etc...This was a few years ago. It happened again recently and I just ignored it...funny thing...it was an adolescent male as well..
I still don't like listening to other people's conversations in public anyway, I have heard woman gossiping about other people's private lives in public!! Can you imagine?

You are like me , you give your heart...Most of the people are not like that...These days..it's almost impossible to find anyone anywhere not glued to their phone...it's a lonely hearts world out there...

Answer 2

I understand where you're coming from, but I will have to both agree and disagree on some points. I work at Aeropostale, and when I have people on the phone that I am ringing up, I don't mind. It is their life and they can live it however they want. Every day that I work, I strive to provide the best customer service possible, and if that means allowing someone to talk on the phone while I'm ringing them up, so be it. It's not a crime, and perhaps it's an important phone call. Even if it's not, who cares? It might be their mother that lives across the country. You never know a person's story. Off the clock, I dislike when people are loud and rude with their conversations. Recently, at the doctor's office, a woman sat chatting loudly about her new shirt while there were several signs on the walls saying no cell phones allowed. I even left the room to answer a call, and here she was, yaking about nothing important. But, this is a free country, and some people choose to use their freedom to be rude.

Answer 3

Yes and no. There is no difference between being on the phone when you are alone or talking to a friend that is with you. So if talking is a crime, then you are right on. Otherwise, I think you are overreacting.

BUT... I completely and utterly agree with you about people talking on their phone in line. As with the friend example, it would be rude of them to continue to talk to their friend and ignore you as well. What is more, people on the phone when they are in line are not paying attention to what they are doing, causing more errors and slowing the line down for everyone else.

That said, the problem is not cell phones. The problem is people. Those people would still be jerks even if they didn't have a phone.

Answer 4

exciting, and it is stable which you're thinking! yet some technical problems I see which might could be triumph over. a million- I think of that texting on an analogous time as utilising in bumper to bumper traffice reasons extra injuries than texting on an analogous time as utilising at highway speeds. you're able to could differentiate the version between somebody utilising at 3 mph and somebody strolling. 2- i'm uncertain you need to wisely pin down a velocity that wisely. 3- there is not any longer something incorrect with a passenger texting on an analogous time as in a vehicle. 4. the risky part of texting- whilst the guy is shifting into the text textile or interpreting the text textile - happens "offline", whilst the telephone isn't in touch with a community. i think this one must be triumph over, yet that would go away the different problems. In all, i think of training and peer enforcement is the terrific thank you to wrestle the subject. and not in basic terms texting. i've got seen sufficient human beings putting on eye makeup and interpreting a newspaper on an analogous time as utilising to make you loopy! And the two circumstances i've got come closest to shifting into an twist of destiny i became in simple terms looking down for some seconds to regulate my vehicle stereo.

Answer 5

I agree with you about the cell phones. I work at a public library and we (staff) are constantly telling our patrons to use their phones in the library's lobby. They are yaking away at the computers at the top of their voices. Everyone can hear their conversations!

When we ask them to go to the lobby, they are insulted. How dare we interrupts their conversations!

There are signs posted everywhere, including the library's entrance asking people to silence their phones.

I wish I knew a way to 'scramble' the phones so they wouldn't work. The technology is there.....hmmmm

Answer 6

Yes, especially when they talk really loud. I was in a waiting room recently where the woman was so loud no one else could talk. I couldn't even hear myself talking and it was a really long conversation too. My own pet peeve is people who THINK they can drive and talk on the cell phone at the same time. Most of them can't!

Answer 7

I too find it rude

I also deal with the public, when someone is talking on the phone right in front of me- ignoring my help that they need
I have jumped into their conversation and offered my opinion
One gal said "how rude, "
I said
"no .
rude of you to divulge such personal info to the general public"

I do not give eye contact, I do not smile, I do not say do you need help?, I do not tell them anything until they are off the phone

Answer 8

everything you mentioned drives me nuts too.
i have a cell phone but am very rarely on it in public...
if it does ring, i look to see whos calling and return their call when i get home. unless its hubby at the other end of the store and trying to find me then ill answer it, tell him to meet me (for example) in the candy aisle in 5 minutes then i hang up

Answer 9

I thinkit's kinda rude for you to expect someone to drop whatever is going on in their life(maybe it started ou tas an important call) just so they can throw on a fake smile and stand there to wait for you to total up their purchases.... But I also think they should atleast awknoledge your pressence...even though most of the cashiers i've encountered at walmart are very unenthisiatic about their greeting...and that's when i'm not on the phone becauyse usually I say can i call you back and as i'm checkign out.... I wouldrather be onthe phone then be standign there wantign to smack the rudeness out of my cashier.... I was also a cashier for many years and I've found that the responses you get are often because of the gestures you first make....obvioulsly if you roll your eyes and stare mindlessly at the clock i'm not going to rush through a convo to talk to you....

Answer 10

You maybe a friendly Wal Mart cashier, but most i have seen are not nice at all,seems most are concerned about when they go on break,or when they get off work.Always talking on these subjects with other cashiers while i am there paying money. So if i am on my cell phone while checking out,forgive me while i multi-task and not pay attention to you