There seems to be a new disease called ‘bad cell phone manners’ that is spreading like wild fire. But you don’t have to catch it, and if you have it already there is hope for you. There are many dos and don’ts regarding cell phone use that are emerging. We really like these (taken from a piece on Microsoft Small Business site, by Joanna L. Krotz):Don'ts
1. Never take a personal mobile call during a business meeting. This includes interviews and meetings with co-workers or subordinates.
2. Maintain at least a 10-foot zone from anyone while talking.
3. Never talk in elevators, libraries, museums, restaurants, cemeteries, theaters, dentist or doctor waiting rooms, places of worship, auditoriums or other enclosed public spaces, such as hospital emergency rooms or buses. And don't have any emotional conversations in public — ever.
4. Don't use loud and annoying ring tones that destroy concentration and eardrums. Grow up!
5. Never "multi-task" by making calls while shopping, banking, waiting in line or conducting other personal business.
Dos
1. Keep all cellular congress brief and to the point.
2. Use an earpiece in high-traffic or noisy locations. That lets you hear the amplification, or how loud you sound at the other end, so you can modulate your voice.
3. Tell callers when you're talking on a mobile, so they can anticipate distractions or disconnections.
4. Demand "quiet zones" and "phone-free areas" at work and in public venues, like the quiet cars on the Amtrak Metroliner.
5. Inform everyone in your mobile address book that you've just adopted the new rules for mobile manners. Ask them to do likewise. Please.
And we are adding: Put the bloody phone on silent or vibrate when you are at the movies, attending religious or other functions requiring reverence, in quite zones and phone-free areas, during a first date, during intimacy, while on the bus or train...Always ask yourself if having the ringer on has the potential to disrupt or disturb. Never forget to ask that question. And if you know that your phone vibrates just as loud as the ringer then perhaps you are better off putting it on silent or turning it off.
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