am I asking too much for folks to put their cell phones on SILENT at work?

[LynneSin]

Geez, it's like a freaking symphony someday with all the ringtones going on at work. I've got that damn Nokia tune, Mozart and all these other ringtones that go off during the work day.

TURN THEM OFF OR PUT THEM ON SILENT

Irritating as hell!!!

[Fenris]

1. Hell, I wish people would turn them off in the library

But they leave them on, and then proceed to have a telephone conversation when someone calls. In a library.

:grr:

[Poisonskin_com]

2. annoying

And the best part is, most people have loud obnoxious rings that sound like shit.

[curlyred]

3. this is in my top 10 work pet peeves

I have been known to wait until the offender leaves his/her desk, and then turn their phone OFF for them.

[LynneSin]

4. damn! Can I worship you as a Diety?

:bounce:

[curlyred]

8. aw shucks

:)

[Endangered Specie]

12. while your at it, do more damage, remove batts.

[GOPisEvil]

5. The Nokia tune is the work of SATAN!!!!!!!!!!

I have a Nokia phone, and the first thing I did was change the ringer. I cannot stand that Nokia tune. It might come from a co-worker of mine who is unlucky enough not to have an office. His phone rings a lot and it is LOUD!!!! Then he proceeds to have arguments with his girlfriend. :eyes:

Ah well...I have my ringer on, but I rarely get calls at work. Most of my friends know my work number, too.

[Love Bug]

6. We have a rule here at work

that cellphones have to be kept turned off or put on vibrate. We're a bunch of cube rats and the noise we have to deal with is bad enough without the addition of cell phone "jingles."

[pippin]

7. Yes! Yes! Yes!

. . .not only at work: but in classrooms, restaurants, at weddings (yes people do actually answer their phones during wedding ceremonies) and meetings.

Also hate the dick heads who drive while nattering and don't seem to know where they want to point their vehicles, and the ones who chatter away while walking along in stores. On the campus where I work every single student is walking with one hand stuck to her/his ear with lips flapping. Swear to god those things even ring in the rest rooms stalls.

"hello, is there you? I't's me, I'm sitting on the can? Where are you?" :silly:

Maybe some psychologist will be able to diagnose all this as a new form of psychosis. . . high anxiety when separated from cell phone syndrome?

[CBHagman]

9. It would be nice if they turned them off in church.

My church prints a message EVERY SUNDAY in the handout containing the week's hymns, etc., and asks that people turn off their cell phones so that we may have a prayerful atmosphere.

And every week, sometimes during the homily, I hear the infernal noise of somebody's cell phone. I've even heard multiple cell phones ring during the PALM SUNDAY liturgy.

Don't tell me that all those calls were about elderly parents in danger or a woman about to deliver a baby.

Oh, surely there's a special ring of hell for the guy who, during a special interview with Helen Thomas at the National Press Club, ignored the moderator's request that people turn their pagers and cell phones to vibrate for the duration of the interview. The guy not only parked his behind in the middle of the row, so he'd have to climb over his fellow audience members while the phone was ringing, but I could hear his voice all the way up in the front. What a social incompetent!!!!!!!!!

[Kat45]

10. Not to mention those whose cells ring in the movie theater.

The theater runs an announcement before the movie telling people to turn off their ringers, but of course they don't.

[geniph]

11. One of the Seattle choirs did a performance last year

which included Silent Night. The choir (I think it was the Seattle Men's Chorus) first performed the song, then they had an ASL interpreter perform the song in sign language to perfect silence. Well, it WAS perfect silence - until some dipshit's cellphone started going off TOODLEOODLETOODLEOODLETOODLEOODLE. You want to talk about if looks could kill...

not to mention that I was at my nephew's wedding this Saturday - a formal, sit-down ceremony - and TWO f***ing phones went off during the ceremony.

The choir I sing with has yet to get through a rehearsal without someone's frigging purse ringing. The worst part is that it always takes them forever to get the f***ing things out and shut them up.

The things are like a disease. What ever happened to the idea that maybe it's okay to go half an hour without people being able to ask you what you want from the grocery store, or whether they should buy the red shoes or the blue ones? What the hell do people have to TALK about all the livelong day, anyway???

[ForrestGump]

13. One of the things that gets me

is that people don't have to use these cell phones half the time, I'm sure. They never used to, anyway. Way more than half of the calls that I've been privy to -- and these are people who force an entire restaurant or whatever to be privy to their scintillating conversation -- seem utterly inconsequential.

"Yeah, I'm in the pork rinds aisle now...oh...I just passed wind...oh, boy, that was a beauty...hmmm, I never knew that there was a city called Louisiana in Missouri...ow, some angry-looking dude just threw a bottle of Dr Pepper at me..."

[Lisa]

14. Had two go off today when I was supervising an exam

When it happens in a big room, it can be hard to pin down exactly whose phone it is. And in one case, the ringtone was a very annoying clip of 80s music, which in itself was so embarrassing that the owner probably didn't want to reveal him/herself.