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Stan, I think you're ticked because they called you on it. It's not the phones or the texts or the etiquette. It's that someone told you you were wrong. Lol, Trust me on this. I know all the symptoms.
Now, thanks to you, I'll have "Let it Go" in my head the rest of the night. Thankfully, I like that song.
Last edited by DewDropInn; 04-28-2014 at 07:38 PM..
No, not to that extent, and not as it applies to business. This is how every company I have worked for since the introduction of computers deals with it, even today. Do you work?
Saying "this is the way it's always been done" isn't really the most convincing argument to counter the fact that work communication is evolving as more millennials enter the workforce and start moving up the ladder.
I do work; I run my own business. My clients are other businesses.
I think everyone is different. It is smart to sleep near your cell phone for access to communications in an emergency, but it is not necessarily that easy to switch back and forth between having the phone not make noise for text but still ring for the ringer if you want it to ring at any time of day for emergencies.
I get annoyed by late texts. I think however if you explain it was an accident, that should be enough. E-mails and texts seem to be in a different category. The expectation is that when you send a text, people stop what they are doing and read it, and you read an e-mail generally when you check your e-mail.
I have a simple basic cell phone, and I have never had or used a smart phone. I have only had the ability to text for like 6 mos. I am a person that stays awake all night many times. I have had a few occasions where I sent a text in the middle of the night and thought nothing of it. I had no idea that if their phone was on it would go through like a phone call. One of the people I text sent me a nasty text saying that to only text her between 8 am- 8 pm, and that I had woke her up. I felt really embarrassed because I didn't know.
Saying "this is the way it's always been done" isn't really the most convincing argument to counter the fact that work communication is evolving as more millennials enter the workforce and start moving up the ladder.
I do work; I run my own business. My clients are other businesses.
How you run your business is up to you, of course.
My point was more about larger businesses that use email as a way to track correspondence. Texting anything about business other than perhaps a meeting time is a no-no in my profession, because you can easily lose texts if you lose your phone or it goes dead. In an email account they remain there.
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