Cell phone jamming.Follow

I think it's illegal because it could block out someone who needs to call 911 at a crucial moment.

At my old call center, we had a rule that if you were caught using the cell phone on the floor, you obviously considered your cell phone to be company property since only company property was allowed on the floor. Therefore, your phone would be confiscated until the end of the shift, or on the 2nd violation, the end of the week. Cell phones were to be set to either silent or off, and put away.

I figure, if people consider keeping in constant contact with their friends and significant others(because it's unlikely that that many people all have that many emergencies, that often, at the same time), to be more important than properly doing their job, then they're easily replaced.

My God, what a stupid man.

Not arguing that it's legal to do here, just pointing out a pretty serious flaw in the use of this arguement to apply to all areas:

How does what you said apply to the 20 foot radius that is an employee break room and rest room on a factory floor? And if lack of signal was such an issue, what about the almost no bar signal on the shop floor due to the construction of the steel framed and clad building and high powered electrical noisey equipment? You can't get enough signal to make a call unless you are near one of the shipping dock doors. I'm not saying that the arguement doesn't hold ever, just that it doesn't seem to be that practical when applied to EVERY possible area.

I'll buy the arguement that the FCC has licensed these providers to use the frequencies, and your unauthorized jamming device operates on those same frequencies without permission.


On to the manager, he walked into the bathroom today while I was washing up. I told him that before he thought about the turning on that Jammer he should look into the legality of it. Without saying anything he pulled out his iPhone and turned in on. Then poked around for a little bit, said, "huh?". He walked out and over to the small maintenance closet next to the bathrooms. I followed him, and he reaches up behind a box on the top shelf and pulls down a small walkie-talkie looking device with three antennas and tells me, "The battery must be dead, it was working just fine this morning." Puts it in his pocket and returns to his office.

Dunno is he's going to listen to me or not. I personally don't own a cell phone and wouldn't use it at work anyway, so I'm not going to whistle blow. But it annoys me to no end when I see employees using their personal phones while on the clock. Just yesterday I walked into our quality office looking for someone, and one of the technicians was sitting down in a chair in the A/C flipping through facebook. What annoys me the most about it though isn't the person using the phone, but the supervisors who walk in and out and just don't give a ****.

Edited, Jun 26th 2012 6:48pm by TirithRR

Ya, lack of rules in the handbook isn't the issue, it's enforcement.

Rules state that personal phones aren't supposed to be on the shop floor. They are supposed to be left in your car, etc or turned off and kept in your pockets. You can use them during breaks or lunch. They have put it out in the newsletters about once every 3-4 months or so. But they never enforce it.

It's not like I'm taking serious legal advice from a gaming forum. It's just making talk. It's boring around here and I figured some off standard topics would promote conversations.

Just set up a free, unsecured supposed wifi hotspot (which is actually a harvesting device built by you to steal their login details) than take all their bank accounts and use it to buy 4 centuries worth of premium for everyone?

Well, the phones were larger in 1994 so it was easier to enforce.

All the labs and residential buildings in our "neighbourhood" (read: institute that's more or less self-sufficient) have the same intercom. Want to go out Friday night with your friend? Intercom her lab. Cell phone reception is pretty bad around here, anyway.

And yeah, people will kind of sit at the phone talking to a friend for half an hour occasionally. People here will also bring their laptop into work...

What annoys me is the fact that mobiles don't work on the London underground.

So basically, London is now only slightly less awesome than Dubai?

Note how the only parts of London where I usually spend any amount of time (apart from train stations and airports) are Southall, Edg Rd and Bayswater...

Hah! He mentioned Bayswater.

No, seriously, I don't go to Dubai to party. Although I'm pretty sure anything is possible over there. I also don't stay at fancy hotels. I don't ever, although I might have to in a couple of weeks.

Dubai is for fashion and tobacco. And possibly random hook-ups. Also, awesome food. And a cup of tea delivered to your front door... God, I love the tea delivery thing.

Also, my French friends went to a school with a bomb shelter. It was mouldy inside.

Edit:

1. Surprisingly, in the UK and Pakistan most Arabs you meet are from countries with strange gentle accents, like Oman or Sudan.

2. Saudis are... weird. "Ohh, I only get $1800 pcm scholarship, how am I supposed to live off that money? And it's okay the king has more than 4 wives because the ones after the first 4 aren't really his wives!" They have like their own logic which makes no sense to the outside world.

Edited, Jun 30th 2012 7:39am by Kalivha

It's like a national disease. You meet one, they seem perfectly reasonable and then they suddenly say something like "his hands should be cut off" out of the blue and you just sit there and think, how did this person seem so reasonable?

Also, forgot to say, yay Russell Peters.