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I just have one question.
Who sends an emergency text?
You CALL. You don't text when the situation is dire.
Stan, I'm completely with you on this. People feel a need to leave their phones on 24/7 because it is important for them to feel important. If they get a text in the night that they don't think is important, they don't get to blame you because they didn't silence their phones appropriately.
Stan, I'm completely with you on this. People feel a need to leave their phones on 24/7 because it is important for them to feel important. If they get a text in the night that they don't think is important, they don't get to blame you because they didn't silence their phones appropriately.
If someone called my house in the middle of the night for something unimportant I would be annoyed as well.
A cell phone is still a phone, and text messages are a way of communicating via phone. It is silly to expect people to treat their cell phones by some special subset of rules, when it is common knowledge that you don't phone someone in the middle of the night. If you wouldn't call, don't text. Whether or not someone uses their cell phones as their emergency phone is also no one else's business and basic politeness would tell you to treat a cell phone as a phone.
Now this is a small error that is rectified by a simple apology but what is truly rude is expecting people to treat their cell phones differently than their house phones just so you can have the ease of texting someone as opposed to emailing them. Which is what the OP should have done in the first place, btw. But she is taking something small and making it ginormous by trying to blame the people who received the text
That's a load. I leave my phone on 24/7 because it's my only phone.
Lol same here, it's not very practical to even have a landline these days anymore. My parents just recently got rid of there's even because they realized everything is routed to their cellphones anyways (emails, appt. reminders etc.)
Stan, I'm completely with you on this. People feel a need to leave their phones on 24/7 because it is important for them to feel important. If they get a text in the night that they don't think is important, they don't get to blame you because they didn't silence their phones appropriately.
Nope. It is my only phone, so it is on at all times. It has nothing with wanting to feel important. Where would you even get that idea? How can leaving your phone on make you feel important?
Nope. It is my only phone, so it is on at all times. It has nothing with wanting to feel important. Where would you even get that idea? How can leaving your phone on make you feel important?
Agreed. I MUTE the sounds on my cell during the day, when I'm asleep (night shifter) but do people unplug their home phones at night when they sleep? Probably not, so NOT turning off your cell and just plugging it in would be considered normal. Right?
I just have one question.
Who sends an emergency text?
You CALL. You don't text when the situation is dire.
While this might be rare, I just need to point out that in SOME areas, texts CAN be sent to E911. There ARE times when this might be needed, such as when a violent offender *might* be in the same room as you, but you need help. A covert text to the authorities rather than a voice call can make the difference.
Texts are not a good business communication tool. It would be better to use email or better yet, have your business use a dedicated system for this sort of communication.
Texts are not a good business communication tool. It would be better to use email or better yet, have your business use a dedicated system for this sort of communication.
Bingo!
Texting is no way to communicate anything to do with business. Pick up the phone and call or send an email.
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