Rudeness Made Easier

Source - http://www.wwj.com/Be-Polite-While-Staying-Connected/2128679

Along with the widespread acceptance of wireless devices comes new ways for people to be rude. Of those surveyed, 18 percent admit to being reprimanded for having bad manners when it comes to their wireless devices. This behavior extends in and out of work with another 39 percent saying that they respond almost instantaneously when they receive a professional email or call outside of business hours.

As wireless devices become further cemented into corporate culture, a spectrum of acceptable and unacceptable behavior has emerged. Inappropriate wireless device etiquette includes:
Answering a work call or email during personal time after work hours.

• Talking on the phone while in close quarters (such as on a train, plane, bus).
• Talking on the phone while in the restroom.
• Answering the phone or emails while at a business dinner.
• Accepting a personal call while in a meeting or presentation.

It is a pet peeve of mine that people answer the phone in a restaurant, though I can see the need to answer a business call, while in a business meeting if it is relevant. What are your thoughts folks?...Dan

Comments

[Rita]

In addition to "Answering the phone or emails while at a business dinner." It is also bad manners to "Continue a conversation in a restaurant or other dining facility". If the phone must be answered, take the conversation outside to a lobby. Too often, I will see a diner carry on a conversation for 15 minutes or so while the others at the table get neglected.