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Post by Humph on Mar 16, 2021 13:55:32 GMT
I had to make a business trip today. Not too far, 150 mile round trip. Anyway, I left about 07.00 and was home again just after midday. Thing is, I forgot my phone. At first I felt quite inexplicably anxious about that, but fairly quickly I rather enjoyed the freedom. Listened to R4 without interruption, got through my meeting quickly and efficiently, and listened to some pleasing music on the way back.
Of course there were emails and calls waiting, but nothing bad had happened. Not that I read emails on the move but I would have stopped to do so under normal circs.
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Post by bpg on Mar 16, 2021 21:01:16 GMT
Since being effectively in lockdown for over a year (I've been into the office 5 times) I regularly forget my phone when I do the supermarket run or take the dog out. It used to brother me, then I became comfortable not having it with me. Recent events mean I need to get back into the habbit of picking it up with my house keys.
I can't remember where I put it, most missed calls on it are me ringing it from the landline to find it.
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Post by Rob on Mar 16, 2021 21:28:16 GMT
If I forget my phone doing the supermarket run I'd probably return. Simply because I compile my shopping list on Evernote so it's on my Mac and phone. I'd end up forgetting stuff.
I have a work phone (well the SIM is the second one in my phone) and I never get calls on that. People expect to get you on Microsoft Teams as a chat... except I don't have Teams on my mobile so when I'm away from the desk I cannot check Teams.
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Post by commerdriver on Mar 16, 2021 21:54:10 GMT
Since I retired, just before the "troubles" in March last year, I have often compared the tech aspects of life now to when I started work in the late 70s. In those days when you went out to client sites you were not contactable in any way while you were travelling, and not easily by other means when you were at the client.
Much the same now,only better. I can be contacted if I want but I choose when, where and who.
Got to be one of the best bits of being retired.
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Post by Rob on Mar 16, 2021 21:59:37 GMT
I must admit Skype type communication is something I really dislike. People assume you'll answer quickly. And you can have many chats ongoing at the same time. I prefer email for non-urgent stuff and a phone call if it's more urgent.
And of course the likes of Skype/Teams show your status. So I will often look like I am away but I tend to do some of my work on the Mac especially if I need to do some online searches - I prefer the keyboard shortcuts for one. And even if I am not away Teams often shows me away even though I am moving the mouse or typing.
When I first started working for this company in 1995 I was surprised it was not easy to send an email to an Internet email address.... You had to do it via an X400 gateway and it was a right pain. And don't get me started on not having access to the Internet for browsing.
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Post by dixinormus on Mar 16, 2021 22:08:20 GMT
Nobody really uses the phone as a phone any more do they? As a business medium nobody seems to answer it any more, or they are grumpy at being interrupted if they do. Yet as a tool for SMS messages and/or email we can’t put the things down!
I backpacked around Asia for 9 months in 1994. No email, Facebook etc. You bought a guidebook, and any correspondence was purely sending letters/postcards back home. Occasionally, if you knew your next destination you might find a return letter waiting for you at the central post office when you got there. Can’t imagine being out of touch like that with family these days!
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Post by Rob on Mar 16, 2021 22:20:21 GMT
Thankfully I've avoid having a work smartphone - surprised it's not forced upon us. But I already have my own smartphone so I don't want to carry two. But this means I don't have work email or MS Teams on my phone  |
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Post by WDB on Mar 17, 2021 7:00:31 GMT
In those days when you went out to client sites you were not contactable in any way while you were travelling, and not easily by other means when you were at the client. We watch the occasional old film or classic TV show with our late-teens children. One feature of these that always amuses them is phone calls; not so much fixed phones or phone boxes, which they still see, but the lost phenomenon of “It’s for you.” Someone in a restaurant or bar will be interrupted with, “There’s a phone call for you.” And, of course, the whole experience of calling a number and having to ask, “Is Steve there, please?” All alien to the under-25s. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2021 9:30:11 GMT
Thankfully I've avoid having a work smartphone - surprised it's not forced upon us. But I already have my own smartphone so I don't want to carry two. But this means I don't have work email or MS Teams on my phone I have a work smartphone, but my manager won't authorise the minuscule extra monthly payment for data, so it is literally just a phone phone when on the move. And I won't answer it in the car, in fact I turn it off then. Their loss, not mine. |
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