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#1 Nov 08 2007 at 6:05 AM Rating: Good
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  • Speakerphones are for ***holes. No one around you wants to be part of your conversation. Likewise, the person you're talking to isn't very fond of the fact that you're cutting in and out. Pick up the mother fucking handset, or get a headset.
  • When you're on the phone, please do not eat or drink. It's really disgusting to hear the sounds of your mouth and throat taking in substance at point blank range. This include chewing gum.
  • TURN YOUR GODDAMN MUSIC DOWN/OFF. The person you're calling doesn't want to listen to your music. It also makes it difficult to understand what you're saying.
  • If you're on a cell phone or wireless phone, and nature calls, just go ahead and tell the person you're talking to that you'll be back, and set the damn phone down. I can promise you that, unless they're very wrong in the head, the person on the other end does not want to hear the sound of your urine stream smashing into the water in the toilet, nor do they want to try to listen to you talking over a flushing toilet.
  • Also, if you're on a cell phone and you're driving down the road, please pull over. It's annoying to try to listen to someone over car noises, especially when they're going in and out of dead spots.
  • Last of all, just don't call me. It cuts into my Allakhazam time. Smiley: lol
  • #2 Nov 08 2007 at 6:09 AM Rating: Excellent
    Amen to that!

    The only time I talk on the Phone while going to the bathroom is when telemarketers call.
    #3 Nov 08 2007 at 6:12 AM Rating: Excellent
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    Sorry, if you call me on my cell phone while I'm driving, that's your problem. You could've left a message for me on my office or home phone, but your impatience required that you speak to me now, so you can deal with it. Not that it matters, my car is pretty damn quiet inside. <3 my Nissan.
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    #4 Nov 08 2007 at 6:14 AM Rating: Excellent
    I rarely answer my phone and never make a call while driving. Its rude to the other person and dangerous.

    I'd also be a hypocrite for flipping off all the cnuts in their SUVs gabbing away and cutting me off.
    #5 Nov 08 2007 at 6:14 AM Rating: Decent
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    His Excellency Soracloud wrote:
    Amen to that!

    The only time I talk on the Phone while going to the bathroom is when telemarketers call.
    All bets are off with telemarketers.
    #6 Nov 08 2007 at 6:15 AM Rating: Decent
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    Uglysasquatch, Mercenary Major wrote:
    Sorry, if you call me on my cell phone while I'm driving, that's your problem. You could've left a message for me on my office or home phone, but your impatience required that you speak to me now, so you can deal with it. Not that it matters, my car is pretty damn quiet inside. <3 my Nissan.
    I need to amend what I said.
    Assume everything I said is considering that you initiated the call.
    #7 Nov 08 2007 at 6:17 AM Rating: Good
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    His Excellency Soracloud wrote:
    I rarely answer my phone and never make a call while driving. Its rude to the other person and dangerous.

    I'd also be a hypocrite for flipping off all the cnuts in their SUVs gabbing away and cutting me off.


    I live in a province that has a grand total of just less than 1 million people. Driving in traffic with a cell phone isn't quite the same here as it is for you. I have 25 feet between me and the next car while doing 60+mph, you have what, 3?

    Edited, Nov 8th 2007 10:18am by Uglysasquatch
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    Princess Usagichan wrote:
    I need to amend what I said.
    Assume everything I said is considering that you initiated the call.


    Worthy of a Smiley: nod to all of it then. I still <3 my Nissan though.
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    #9 Nov 08 2007 at 7:08 AM Rating: Excellent
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    People that talk on the phone while in the bathroom boggle my mind. I walked into the restroom at work the other day and one of our engineers starts talking from behind a stall door. I thought he was addressing me at first, then I realized he was on the phone with someone while dropping the kids off at the pool. Unbelievable.
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    #10 Nov 08 2007 at 7:10 AM Rating: Default
    I refuse to believe Usagi made this thread. It has too many words in a sensible order.
    #11 Nov 08 2007 at 7:38 AM Rating: Good
    hang up and drive.
    #12 Nov 08 2007 at 7:40 AM Rating: Excellent
    Uglysasquatch, Mercenary Major wrote:
    His Excellency Soracloud wrote:
    I rarely answer my phone and never make a call while driving. Its rude to the other person and dangerous.

    I'd also be a hypocrite for flipping off all the cnuts in their SUVs gabbing away and cutting me off.


    I live in a province that has a grand total of just less than 1 million people. Driving in traffic with a cell phone isn't quite the same here as it is for you. I have 25 feet between me and the next car while doing 75+mph, you have what, 2.5?

    Edited, Nov 8th 2007 10:18am by Uglysasquatch


    ftfy

    Edited, Nov 8th 2007 10:40am by Soracloud
    #13 Nov 08 2007 at 7:50 AM Rating: Good
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    Princess Usagichan wrote:
  • If you're on a cell phone or wireless phone, and nature calls, just go ahead and tell the person you're talking to that you'll be back, and set the damn phone down. I can promise you that, unless they're very wrong in the head, the person on the other end does not want to hear the sound of your urine stream smashing into the water in the toilet, nor do they want to try to listen to you talking over a flushing toilet.


  • People actually do that? That's disgusting. Smiley: bah
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    #14 Nov 08 2007 at 7:57 AM Rating: Decent
    My boss does this annoying thing... He is incapable of doing anything by himself without sounding incredibly stupid, so he always "brings a friend" to the conversation. Worse, he often calls other people unannounced on speaker phone like.. "Oh hi, ???, it's ??? and ??? here at ???". I'm like.. dude.. if I were your client and you did that to me.. ugh.. I'd punch you in the eyeball.
    #15 Nov 08 2007 at 12:47 PM Rating: Decent
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    Lady Tasera wrote:
    Princess Usagichan wrote:
  • If you're on a cell phone or wireless phone, and nature calls, just go ahead and tell the person you're talking to that you'll be back, and set the damn phone down. I can promise you that, unless they're very wrong in the head, the person on the other end does not want to hear the sound of your urine stream smashing into the water in the toilet, nor do they want to try to listen to you talking over a flushing toilet.


  • People actually do that? That's disgusting. Smiley: bah

    I see dudes in public restrooms ALL THE TIME walk up to a urinal while on the phone.
    I've even been in a restroom and heard a phone ring from inside of a stall, heard the person in the stall answer then phone, and even go as far as to tell them that he's sitting on a toilet taking a shit.
    Up until today, I thought it was just a guy thing.
    One of the other techs took a call from an off-site user this morning and he thought he heard her go to the bathroom. She confirmed it for him when she flushed the toilet.
    #16 Nov 08 2007 at 12:56 PM Rating: Good
    Princess Usagichan wrote:
    If you're on a cell phone or wireless phone, and nature calls, just go ahead and tell the person you're talking to that you'll be back, and set the damn phone down. I can promise you that, unless they're very wrong in the head, the person on the other end does not want to hear the sound of your urine stream smashing into the water in the toilet, nor do they want to try to listen to you talking over a flushing toilet.
    For some reason this does not bother me at all.
    #17 Nov 08 2007 at 1:03 PM Rating: Good
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    I talk on the phone all the time with my girlfriends when I'm on the potty. We all do that.
    #18 Nov 08 2007 at 1:05 PM Rating: Decent
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    I also get really annoyed when people call me in a noisy public place, then get pissed off later when they ask me about what they said and I have no idea.

    Protip: I can't hear **** you're saying if you call me in the middle of a packed stadium.
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    #19 Nov 08 2007 at 1:12 PM Rating: Good
    Thumbelyna Quick Hands wrote:
    I talk on the phone all the time with my girlfriends when I'm on the potty. We all do that.


    Yeah.. I'll do that if I'm on the phone with my mom... I also have no qualms going to the toilet while on hold. Too frikkin' bad if you happen to take me off hold when I'm flushing...
    #20 Nov 08 2007 at 1:13 PM Rating: Good
    Thumbelyna Quick Hands wrote:
    I talk on the phone all the time with my girlfriends when I'm on the potty. We all do that.


    Not I.

    But I will tell my friend, "I gotta go, I have to pee so bad I can taste it."
    #21 Nov 08 2007 at 1:16 PM Rating: Good
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    Zackary wrote:
    I also get really annoyed when people call me in a noisy public place, then get pissed off later when they ask me about what they said and I have no idea.

    Protip: I can't hear sh*t you're saying if you call me in the middle of a packed stadium.


    Why the fUck would you even answer the phone then?
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    #22 Nov 08 2007 at 1:18 PM Rating: Good
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    Zackary wrote:
    I also get really annoyed when people call me in a noisy public place, then get pissed off later when they ask me about what they said and I have no idea.

    Protip: I can't hear sh*t you're saying if you call me in the middle of a packed stadium.


    Why the fUck would you even answer the phone then?


    I think he meant if you call me from the middle of a packed stadium.

    Edited, Nov 8th 2007 3:18pm by Belkira
    #23 Nov 08 2007 at 1:18 PM Rating: Excellent
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    On skype Hellboy was eating food once, it was chicken and something.

    It was ***** disgusting, the dude was seriously slurping the chicken and at times I swear to god he was munching on the microphone as well.

    I didn't say it then because I was floored but seriously man, that was ***** nasty.
    #24 Nov 08 2007 at 1:33 PM Rating: Decent
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    Thumbelyna Quick Hands wrote:
    I talk on the phone all the time with my girlfriends when I'm on the potty. We all do that.


    The gf did that all the time and I can't stand it. I told her to knock it off. Then she heard me talking to my bro on XBOX live while taking a **** and said I couldn't pull that double standard **** anymore.
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    Imperial Ninja wrote:
    On skype Hellboy was eating food once, it was chicken and something.

    It was ***** disgusting, the dude was seriously slurping the chicken and at times I swear to god he was munching on the microphone as well.

    I didn't say it then because I was floored but seriously man, that was ***** nasty.


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    #26 Nov 08 2007 at 2:03 PM Rating: Good
    If people call me when I'm on the *******, although I won't tell them I'm on the *******, I ain't gonna hold it all in just so they can ask me how my freaking day was.
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