GreyWolf

I threw the president of my company out of my office yesterday. Ok, I told him I had things to do, and if we needed to discuss his issue we should set up a meeting.

He came into my office, and in the middle of the discussion, his cellphone went off and HE ANSWERED IT!!! Few things make my blood boil more than that. While he was on the phone, I made it a point to get up, walk out, and go down to the kitchen and get some coffee. When I got back, he was still on the phone. When he hung up, I said he was obviously busy, I had some things I had to finish, and perhaps we should schedule a meeting to discuss his issue.

Now, he's not stupid (he's actually a great young guy), so he asked what was wrong. I then read him the riot act. I explained I NEVER answer the phone when I am speaking to someone, UNLESS I warn them I am expecting an important call. I told him it was impolite and even insulting to answer a phone in the middle of a conversation, and that it completely unacceptable to come into MY OFFICE and answer HIS cellphone while talking to me (I give this speech to everyone who does that).

I then told him that in the entire time since Bell inflicted the telephone on an unsuspecting world, no one had ever received a phone call from God. Nor were his chances of getting a call from the Pope very good. He apologised and agreed to never to it again, at least in my presence.

Am I the only person in the world who gets annoyed by poor telephone etiquette? Does anyone else feel slighted when a person picks up a phone & wanders off into another conversation, leaving you there twiddling your thumbs?

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