Please we have some manners in our mobile phone behavior.
In the 1960s and the 1970s, a popular slogan among the with-it generation "Ban the Bomb". Half a century later, my personal motto for the "tens" (twenty-one, tens of thousands that is) starts, "Ban the Mobile" and other similar wireless devices.
I recently held a series of training courses and seminars in a major city, and was almost put on the number of participants whose life seems nowto dominate and turn around the palm-sized oblong metal and plastic that has become an icon of our culture.
Now you understand me wrong. I am not anti-technology. The opposite is true - I am a technophile. I love the stuff and try to keep up to date with everything that is new, to use it and I adapt every way that I can.
But I know when to draw the line.
What really got my goat (goes back to my courses and seminars), the number ofFolk-visitors, who were employed at a particular time so that their e-mails or sending messages or the like. I was astounded!
First, boys (and girls too), what you're doing is rude in the extreme. It is highly disrespectful to something else when you are spoken to commit to. You would not ignore your boss to play with your e-mail when he addressed you. Neither would you waste your boss' time and money to his face. But that is precisely what all of these offenders weredoes.
I really wonder how many of these people that are so bound in their own little worlds that make market shaking decisions, which could not just wait a little longer - perhaps the tea-break?
Secondly, what you do is a total waste of time - yours and mine. It is proven that the whole concept of "multi-tasking" is a fallacy. One can really only do one effectively at a given time. Any other simultaneous activity will suffer as a result of the experimentdouble or triple.
So these people who were so eager scroll through their messages, as I had lectures they might as well be in the office remained open are just stayed home! Just think of the totally incompetent way in which these people must run their jobs (and lives).
Thirdly, to prove the point that I have just made, they missed all the important information I tried to convey to them. I kno that many of the major issuesjust missed out some of the stupid questions and comments in the post-course evaluation is carried out questionnaire.
It really riles me is when people complain that this subject or this subject was not covered, when it was real and the complainant, who so busy with their Blackberry or whatever simply missed the point when it came.
It is high time to look a little more, how should people behave in group situations, vis-a-vis their work requirements is given.The often repeated mantra must be available to respond 24 / 7 or under to requests within thirty minutes are so much nonsense! If this was the case, these people are chained to their desks should be permanently (which I enjoy without end).
When adults are behaving like children are, they should be treated like them! We can not punish them or put them in the corner or make them leave the room, but we can use technology to achieve the same goal. I would love to see aactive use of mobile signal-blocking technology to the conference / seminar.
But behind these extreme and I - have a simple plea, "Please, let some manners back into our use of cell phones and other communication devices."
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