Apparently not much is personal any more. I don’t know about you, but I resent hearing that tinny William Tell Overture while I’m watching a movie. Last year a New York City Councilman introduced legislation to penalize anyone making or taking a call during an indoor performance. Pending … they couldn’t figure out how to enforce it.

How about working through pocketbook? The last concert I attended, people behind me were drunk and disorderly. The manager said she couldn’t do anything about it. I demanded a refund. She then seated us elsewhere, but our pleasant evening had become a major stressor. I told her I wouldn’t be back until they figured out “something to do”.

Apparently people are taking and making calls during funerals. Is nothing sacred any more?

I’m torn because I enjoy being connected with loved ones via cell phone, and I’m on-call to my coaching clients. I’m all for using it to make cold cruel world less so, but why not find a quiet, private place?

Are we doing this to look important and get attention? If you are, that’s not how you appear. We perceive you in one of three ways --

·Either you can’t function alone and need a constant umbilical cord ·Your self-esteem is so low you’re desperate for attention. ·You are rude, egotistical, and have no social consciousness.

If you do have to take a phone call in public, you should be apologetic about it, not proud.

Here are some common-decency suggestions for use of cell phone:

1.By all means use phone for essential business – this means to point and brief. 2.Maintain a distance of at least 10’ from others, lower your voice, turn away, act like you’re doing something private BECAUSE YOU ARE. 3.Value real people in your presence over cell phone. It is RUDE to take a phone call when you’re with someone else, with few exceptions. 4.Doctors and expectant-fathers have emergencies; you, rarely. 5.Get some balance in your life. If you can’t take time off to enjoy a play or visit an art museum without taking phone calls, what are you doing to yourself? 6.Understand that we think you’re rude and egotistical when you violate common decency. 7. Get a quiet ringer or vibrating cell. 8.Don’t give your cell number to everyone. 9.Let other people know you expect to use phone with etiquette.

You know how it goes – when a few people don’t behave right, rules and laws follow, and then everyone gets penalized. Work for quiet, no-phone zones, but most of all, enforce your own and maybe we can avoid massive legislation.

It would be a shame not to be able to use your cell phone in a public place in case of a real emergency, and this is where we’re headed, folks.

and fees to customer; you and I. Huh? To put it in other terms, long distance usage

offered by these companies is constantly purchased in such high volume, that cost is very

low. They are physically smaller companies, so amount of employees, overhead, advertising

and other business related costs are lower than that of a giant like AT&T. The service that is

provided is still carried over same phone lines and switches that your current long distance

company uses, so there is absolutely no deterioration in call quality or reliability.

Today, even though there is now adequate competition to drive prices as low as they can go, rest

assured, they will go up. Now is time to evaluate our carriers and compare them to others out

there who can offer same levels of service, but at savings of up to 70%. MCI, AT&T, SPrint

will always be around, but it is competition that is driving force behind improved product and

service for you, consumer.

Author: Greg Hicks Communication Value

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