Beeb beeb, beeb beeb…the pinking comes from my mobile phone. I use it as an alarm-clock. Consequently my mobile phone was the whole night on. Other people put their cell phones off when they go to bed but not me. In case of an emergency I want to be accessible. But what is an emergency? For my friends it´s an emergency when they are on a party and I am not. So they call me in the middle of the night although I am sleeping. And five minutes later they call the second time and again and again…then I put my celly off.
I don´t know how many people have the number of my cell phone but they are a lot. In comparison there are just a few people who have the number of my landline phone, just family members and some very close friends. The reason: my home is my privat zone. When I want to get away from it all I can put my mobile phone off or in a silent modus. Then I am just accessable for my kith and kin.
My celly shows me who is calling: Is it a friend? My brother? Or my boss? In Germany I had a side job. My boss knew that I am a student and that I have a lot of stuff to prepare for my classes. He called me all the same. Because it´s so hard to say NO to somebody I often didn´t answer the phone. Later I told him that I was in class or that I was in the gymnasium and that I couln´t answer the phone.
Almost everybody has a cell phone and some people have more than one. In conclusion many people (especially bosses) expect that you are always achievable. In former times you were half the day on the job and half the day off the joby. That´s over. Nowadays you are ALWAYS on the job. Because you are always accessable – independent where you are and what you are doing. A friend told me that her boss even called her when she and her husband were…(how Peter would say) friendly to each other.
Okay, when I have an important concern I expect as well that the other person answers the telephone. And I wonder why this person has a mobile phone when he/she doesn´t answer the phone. I see, I should be appriciative of it. Espacially because I don´t always answer the phone as well. And I don´t want to desturb somebody in that way her boss interrupted my friend and her husband.
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I don't know about Germany, but in Australia one difference is that for most people the landline number is listed in the phone directory - so anyone can find it out if they know your name. But the mobile / cell phone number is only listed if you want it to be listed - so you can give the number or withhold the number. So I think that being given a person's mobile number is a privilege, and I do not give my number to just anyone - like my boss! (But maybe because I am old I can just pretend to not have a mobile phone?)
Your right, it´s similar in Germany - or rather it was similar. Earlier everybody had telephone mainlines at Telecom thereby everybody was listed in the phone directory. But nowadays some people, me for example, use internet telophony (works like traditional telephone mainlines) and these people are not automatically listed in the phone directory. Furthermore all my bosses expected me to have a celly and expected me always to be accessible :(
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