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10 years ago though it wasn't as if every bus queue and train journey was a constant hive of unknown people striking up conversations with each other. That's the problem with nostalgia, it ain't what it used to be.
Smart phones - a good or bad thing?
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10 years ago though it wasn't as if every bus queue and train journey was a constant hive of unknown people striking up conversations with each other. That's the problem with nostalgia, it ain't what it used to be.
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And then there's the people who carry 2 or 3 phones around
[TW]Fox;26317058 said:
These aren't unknown people to each other. It's a work bus full of people all working at the same place. It's almost an automatic reaction, walk on bus pull out phone. I do understand how useful they have become but no one can deny that people have an addiction to the things.
This kind of thing....
Hard to tell from that picture but she was particularly attractive. The absolute last thing I would have been looking at for the whole meal would be my phone.
Yes I appreciate the irony of using my phone for half a second to take a bad picture. I couldn't show the other old grumpy men at work who have given a finger to be dating someone still hot
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[TW]Fox;26317058 said:
I don't know, 10 years ago I was doing a two train commute and frequently ended up talking to people I didn't really know just saw them regularly on the train. Same now actually, there's a few people I speak to that the only time I see them is during my current commute.
2 phones is good ... one for work that can be turned off and disappear into the bottom of my bag outside office hours and one for personal use.
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It was recently made illegal in France i think it was for employers to expect people to work after hours without over time.
in IT it is especially bad are i am expected if there is a major problem to solve it remotely and if i can not then go in, no matter the day. The only exception would be working through the night, but some places will expect that as well in p1 situations. The fact that i don't reakly have any dependent and spend a lot of time on my pc and my boss knows this so he thinks i am always available to solve problems. Good thing we rarely have out of hour problems. They would pay for that though.
In terms of emails i do get emails all the time and i could easily get more emails by enabling monitoring emails to my mailbox but i get away without monitoring emails. I am not expected to respond to emails out of hours unless there is a specific requirement for me to answer it otherwise it just waits till the morning.
I put my blackberry 9720 on complete silent all the time, the only thing it does is vibrate when i get a phone call, other than that i get no notifications. This is one way to solve the constant nagging from the phone, i just keep checking it and on weekends i rarely look at it on purpose. If something happens and i don't see it soon enough ill just say that my phone was upstairs and ran out of battery and was preoccupied down stairs all weekend.
On the trains over the last 3 years smart phone use has gone crazy. Now its not uncommon to look at people on the train to see nearly every person looking in to their phone.
in IT it is especially bad are i am expected if there is a major problem to solve it remotely and if i can not then go in, no matter the day. The only exception would be working through the night, but some places will expect that as well in p1 situations. The fact that i don't reakly have any dependent and spend a lot of time on my pc and my boss knows this so he thinks i am always available to solve problems. Good thing we rarely have out of hour problems. They would pay for that though.
In terms of emails i do get emails all the time and i could easily get more emails by enabling monitoring emails to my mailbox but i get away without monitoring emails. I am not expected to respond to emails out of hours unless there is a specific requirement for me to answer it otherwise it just waits till the morning.
I put my blackberry 9720 on complete silent all the time, the only thing it does is vibrate when i get a phone call, other than that i get no notifications. This is one way to solve the constant nagging from the phone, i just keep checking it and on weekends i rarely look at it on purpose. If something happens and i don't see it soon enough ill just say that my phone was upstairs and ran out of battery and was preoccupied down stairs all weekend.
On the trains over the last 3 years smart phone use has gone crazy. Now its not uncommon to look at people on the train to see nearly every person looking in to their phone.
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[TW]Fox;26317058 said:
lol exactly....
I used to commute into Liverpool St. There was lots of waiting for the train to pull out on the way home. No one would have a knees up sing song. Instead they would all stare into their Metro or Evening Standards or even worse be having the "im on the train, no its still in the station, yeah 15 minutes," conversation.
People have been MMSing for as long as there have been mobiles too.
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One day they'll learn how to use them and maybe even realise that life can continue when you switch them off.
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Turn it off then.
An email isn't urgent, that's why it was an email! I have no notifications for email, I check when I check. Sometimes I have to force myself not to but that's my choice if I do.
I turn off notifications for messages when I sleep (these are normally either delivery notifications or whatsapp from friends anyway).
Calls always ring.
If there's an emergency, I'd expect a call! If you set your phone up to beep every time someone emails/facebooks/messages you're insane imo.
I turn off notifications for messages when I sleep (these are normally either delivery notifications or whatsapp from friends anyway).
Calls always ring.
If there's an emergency, I'd expect a call! If you set your phone up to beep every time someone emails/facebooks/messages you're insane imo.
They are incredibly useful. I spend a couple of hours a day on them, it make my commute on the tube not be a wasted two hours. I read the news and browse the web, meaning I don't do it as much when I'm at home... For those of you that drive I feel sorry for you, wasted time!
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I guess it depends on your job really, I'm an escalation path so I make sure I am available. I don't often have to work out of hours but as an example I've been working for an hour today because an issue was found related to a massive advertising campaign which starts tonight. My employer is flexible though, and I'm able to work from home often or take of time in lieu which is a godsend if you have young children.
It needs to work both ways if an employer expects you to be flexible and as mentioned this is nothing to do with being a smartphone issue - I remember my father getting calls from his work (a Volvo main dealer where he was a manager) at weekends about 30 years ago if there were problems.
It needs to work both ways if an employer expects you to be flexible and as mentioned this is nothing to do with being a smartphone issue - I remember my father getting calls from his work (a Volvo main dealer where he was a manager) at weekends about 30 years ago if there were problems.