I wondered what people's thoughts are on mobile phone addiction, and whether it's actually a real thing. The internet casually refers to it as nomophobia.
I had my 6 month probation review at work today, which I passed thankfully. However my manager (late 50's) pointed out that the only reason he didn't extend my probation was that the paperwork with HR was too much effort.
He went on to say that despite my work being excellent, he's never seen someone so addicted to a mobile phone. I effectively now have an ultimatum to shape up or else. My first reaction was anger, which went on to ruin what should have been an exciting day going permanent.
I've been thinking about it a lot since then, and think phone addition really is a thing. Personally if I get a message, WhatsApp etc, I can't not check it. The idea of not knowing what it says is practically painful. On a few occasions I've decided to just get over it, leave the phone alone. But within a couple of weeks I'm back to normal, or sometimes worse.
The first thing I do after waking up in the morning is check my phone, then I'll be on it for the next 20 minutes checkng this or that. It's the last thing I do before going to bed. I have to check when I get to the work carpark and whenever I have to pop away from my desk for whatever reason. There's even the necessity to check the phone when it's not even vibrated, in case I've accidentally missed a notification.
I spoke to my wife about it, her reaction was "If your work is excellent then what's the problem? You should be judged on what you produce, not how you get there". It's clearly not as simple as that though with more elderly old school bosses.
Is it really a thing?
If so how do you get over it when you can't stop doing it?
If not, then what is it?
Does anyone else have the problem?
/and breath!
I had my 6 month probation review at work today, which I passed thankfully. However my manager (late 50's) pointed out that the only reason he didn't extend my probation was that the paperwork with HR was too much effort.
He went on to say that despite my work being excellent, he's never seen someone so addicted to a mobile phone. I effectively now have an ultimatum to shape up or else. My first reaction was anger, which went on to ruin what should have been an exciting day going permanent.
I've been thinking about it a lot since then, and think phone addition really is a thing. Personally if I get a message, WhatsApp etc, I can't not check it. The idea of not knowing what it says is practically painful. On a few occasions I've decided to just get over it, leave the phone alone. But within a couple of weeks I'm back to normal, or sometimes worse.
The first thing I do after waking up in the morning is check my phone, then I'll be on it for the next 20 minutes checkng this or that. It's the last thing I do before going to bed. I have to check when I get to the work carpark and whenever I have to pop away from my desk for whatever reason. There's even the necessity to check the phone when it's not even vibrated, in case I've accidentally missed a notification.
I spoke to my wife about it, her reaction was "If your work is excellent then what's the problem? You should be judged on what you produce, not how you get there". It's clearly not as simple as that though with more elderly old school bosses.
Is it really a thing?
If so how do you get over it when you can't stop doing it?
If not, then what is it?
Does anyone else have the problem?
/and breath!
