More companies ban cell phones at work

Those jingling ring tones are the No. 1 pet peeve for many office workers, newspaper says.
June 20, 2006: 12:50 PM EDT

Ha! Ya think?
There is such a thing as being too wired. Say for instance, when one is in the grocery store and won’t move their butts because they’re too busy gabbing…and god forbid if you try to get around the idiot.

Then you have the jerk in a doctors office who gets a phone call. They just have to let everyone sitting there know they have a cellphone, and are therefore cool, I suppose, and then they start talking at the top of their lungs. And they’re walking back and forth – pacing, pacing – all this stress for a bullshit conversation about what to have for din din.
At this point I generally strike up a conversation with the person at the farthest point in the room, and make sure I’m talking at the top of *my* lungs.

Personally, I hate all phones. I do have a cellphone, deep down in the bottom of my purse, or better yet – off! Exactly 3 people have the number, and I don’t give anyone else the number.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) – The use of cell phones at work is being limited by many companies as more workers object to the noisy beeps and ring tones from personal calls at work, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

USA Today reported that 30 percent of employees cited cell phones ringing at work as their No. 1 pet peeve at the office.

The report, quoting a survey by Ranstad USA, a staffing company, and the Society for Human Resource Management, said that more than a third of companies contacted have put in place policies to address the issue.

The biggest reason for the limits include the noise and distraction, the newspaper said. Many workers have complained that some people seem to require surgical removal of cell phones in order to put them down.

More than half of workers surveyed said they get impatient or angry when a coworker stops a conversation because of an incoming wireless call, according to a Sprint survey cited in the article.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/20/technology/personaltech/cellphones_work/index.htm?cnn=yes

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