Know When to Turn the Cell Phone Off
Except under extraordinary circumstances, there is no reason to either answer a cell phone during a meeting or, worse, take the call and have a conversation while the meeting is still going on. So says Chuck Martin, writing in the Portsmouth Herald.
A while ago I set up a Google Alert for new stories on the topics of Cell Phone Interruptions, and Cell Phone Etiquette. There are two or three stories per day like the one I quoted above.
September 6th, 2005 at 9:35 am
You’d think this would fall under the “no duh” category of obviousness. But there’s a persistent mindset out there that your phone is vital, and must be answered right at that moment (for reasons of exaggerated self-importance, if nothing else). When that’s typically just not true, and why voicemail exists.