I do the same work. I have a clip for my phone (also a pocket in my jeans) if I need to walk around with my phone. If I am at my desk, I put my phone in view. You should be able to see if your phone is going off, not to mention bouncing everywhere on vibrate mode. You don't have to check your phone every 5 minutes.
If you're not close enough to your phone to feel/hear it vibrate, then the person can leave a message until you are... there are drawbacks, of course, but people live. Tell me, do you need to hear your phone or others going off in the middle of class / lecture / test / workshop / church / movie / play / dinner / funeral / business meeting / date / etc.? It's rude and quite distracting. And yes, people will forget or simply not care to turn their ringers off.
What do we get instead? Cell phone jammers. I would consider this worse... not receiving your calls at all, having to leave a building to make your call, not having the option to leave a meeting for an important call, not knowing you even received a call, or kept from browsing the email/internet/etc.
People can live without answering their phone ASAP, and chances are the person calling has nothing relavent to say half the time.
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google should just block all of france...
don't buy from "Best Buy"...
I do the same work. I have a clip for my phone (also a pocket in my jeans) if I need to walk around with my phone. If I am at my desk, I put my phone in view. You should be able to see if your phone is going off, not to mention bouncing everywhere on vibrate mode. You don't have to check your phone every 5 minutes.
If you're not close enough to your phone to feel/hear it vibrate, then the person can leave a message until you are... there are drawbacks, of course, but people live. Tell me, do you need to hear your phone or others going off in the middle of class / lecture / test / workshop / church / movie / play / dinner / funeral / business meeting / date / etc.? It's rude and quite distracting. And yes, people will forget or simply not care to turn their ringers off.
What do we get instead? Cell phone jammers. I would consider this worse... not receiving your calls at all, having to leave a building to make your call, not having the option to leave a meeting for an important call, not knowing you even received a call, or kept from browsing the email/internet/etc.
People can live without answering their phone ASAP, and chances are the person calling has nothing relavent to say half the time.
New concept: ban all ring tones; all that is needed is vibrate mode. It would solve so many problems...